What A Tailing Loop Is Not
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Presented as part one of a continuing education videoconference on May 5, 2021, to Certified Casting Instructors (CI, MCI, THCI) of Fly Fishers International's Casting Instructor Certification Program. With thanks to my editors MCI Craig Buckbee and CI Dave Jacobson. Any errors are mine alone.
Software, Hardware, Location: All review clips -- with voiceover, drawing, slow-motion, side-by-side and superimposition -- were created in OnForm, a motion-analysis app. for tablets and smartphones. Most clips were filmed with an iPad Pro--Gen 2 and an iPhone XS. All source clips were filmed at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
As always, Mac, precise and informative.
Mr Lord, as a CI candidate you just saved me from certain insanity trying to figure out this closed loop situation being called a tailing loop. Many Thanks. :)
Thanks for your comment, Jim. Glad I could help you out.
To be honest, I really don’t care what my cast looks like to anyone! If I can hit my spot or get the right drift, depth, etc. and catch fish, none of it matters! I’m not about being pretty, though I think my casts look pretty good and I can get pretty good distance, I certainly know they are not perfect, but I wouldn’t want to take a test and be critiqued!
Really good video and explanation. In the last part of the video, with the brick wall, you can really see the rod tip path. Best illustration I have ever seen.
Glad you liked it!
Why it is called a tailing loop? What is a loop that is not “tailing?”
Hello Macauley,
A tailing loop to me is a wave in the fly-leg. If it was undesired, it's a fly casting fault. If the wave in the fly-leg crosses the rod-leg or not, depends on position of observing, the size of the wave and the orientation of the fly-leg relative to the rod-leg. But all this doesn't matter. It's the undesired wave in the fly-leg we don't want. In the real world we see mostly instructors and instructor candidates stop extremely high to make the legs look crossing from the horizontal side view. Students don't stop at 11 : 30 in a horizontal cast, but usually too low instead. I agree. It's also fair to summarize, that 98% of my students don't throw such dramatic waves in their fly-legs like presented in this video! They throw small waves in their fly-legs instead. The definition of the wave in the fly-leg to cross the rod-leg does not present what my students typically bring into my lessons. Btw. students throw tailings in all trajectories. Tailings ARE NOT based on a horizontal fly-leg trajectory.
You recommend to not teach with drawings, but to use frame grabs instead. I recommend to then stop talking about SLP, because in this video the fly-leg never was straight, nore was the tip path. Welcome to the real world of fly casting though. There is no straight in fly casting! ;)
Cheers
Bernd
Thanks for your comment, Bernd. I agree about the dramatic waves in the fly leg being in unrepresentative of what most of our students do. I dramatized it as a teaching point for instructors: we should always exaggerate what we want our students to see. And I never talk about SLP with my students. I talk about it in our community of instructors because talking about it is - unfortunately- required to pass our tests.
I agree that my fly legs are never straight-they can’t be, because I’m merely human. But also because my demonstration casts are always very slow. That’s so my students can see them better than if I cast with high line speed.
@@4mackle Hello Macauley, Thanks for your comment/answer as well. Good to know we are pretty much on the same page though. Agree with the points you made. Since we both have been teaching a lot, everything else would be a surprise to me. Cheers
Bernd
Forgive me please. On my some 50 years on the water….I’ve never-ever-come across a more arrogant ah. Behind the building at Macs Last Cast…..some really gifted rods would love to get to know ya!
Brilliant!
What is RSP?
Rod-straight position.