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While teaching a teacher how to cast several years ago, she ended up teaching me that one of the most effective means of teaching was to connect with the student's mind with metaphors, anecdotes and mnemonics.
Tak Shimosawa uses the metaphor of "peeling a length of tape from a tabletop" when describing the lift of a long spey line from the water prior to starting the sweep back to the d-loop. This is a very appropriate metaphor because like tape the line must be peeled to the point of least adhesion to have a consistent motion back to form the d-loop (v-loop) without unpredictable amounts of grip and drag.
What are some of your favorite mnemonics for spey casting?
Tak Shimosawa uses the metaphor of "peeling a length of tape from a tabletop" when describing the lift of a long spey line from the water prior to starting the sweep back to the d-loop. This is a very appropriate metaphor because like tape the line must be peeled to the point of least adhesion to have a consistent motion back to form the d-loop (v-loop) without unpredictable amounts of grip and drag.
What are some of your favorite mnemonics for spey casting?