NM wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:35 pm
To make things more concrete, you may consider a fly fisher coming to you to help them fix:
• A nasty tailing FC loop.
• Some wide-open front and back cast loops, maybe due to “windshield casting.”
• Some downward directed, wide-open BC loops.
The fly fisher may be a light-line small-stream trout angler, a heavy-tackle saltwater angler that need to cast a bit further than the trout angler, maybe with larger and heavier flies. I would be interesting also to learn whether there are any differences on how you would approach those two.
Hi Nils,
will it be a max one hour online teaching session, a short 10 minutes face to face teaching on a fly fishing show or a full day lesson in my place?
Will it be cold or not? Will there be rain?
Will it be a youngster or an older student?
Will it be a man or woman?
I don't want to make it any complicated, but all that has quite impact to how I would teach.
That's exactly the issue with teaching exams. You can't easily test for all the things becoming very relevant in real life teaching.
Let me offer a few examples.
2 days ago it was very cold and lots of snow was around our feet. I told my student to bring waders, but he forgot. He also didn't listen, when I recommended to put on the extra jacket he had in his car. So we were in the snow with our feet, facing a "nice" icy wind and after 5 minutes he agreed to pick up his extra jacket and gloves.
In such a situation I will hand over the rod directly and have him cast. Otherwise he gets cold in no time and that's killing any proper teaching. If it's a woman I'd probably go back home and pick up a neoprene waders for her. Women are mostly freezing much quicker.
Now let's assume I have a full day. I'd run thru different short exercises each built to learn one key essential at the time. In the end the issues will automatically be gone. Grip, stance will be set up in one minute and during the exercises I will add up. I will have made a quick video for capturing the individual issues in the start. That's very helpful in long terms aside I will give the information what was missing in each exercise being the one hitting the cause.
If we would have a whole day in summer I may start with a bit more of an introduction to some basics like stances, grips, the big three and giving an overview whats coming in the day.
If I would have been on a show and 10min are already long, I'd offer to have the student put his rod hand on mine. I'd make him feel how he casts and then how I'd like him to cast. He most probably will do much better straight away. If he still drops the rod too much, I'd exolain or I may step a bit closer to his desired stop position in rod plane. Students dont hit you with the rod. I'd have a talk about what we improved. In addition I'd offer to stay in contact via phone.
If it's a 1 hour online lesson, I'd most probably directly mark the causes and explain how to correct. This will be demonstrating my movements compared to his and putting it in words.
In the end my questions will be:
1. Can he properly perform?
2. Does he understand pre and post?
3. Can he take the understanding home in a form to recheck?
Not sure that was what you were after.
Regards
Bernd