After coming back from Tassie late last year I started a thread on the Fly Casting Lab facebook page. I am re-posting here for those who don’t do facebook and because I think it’s worth thinking about in your own casting and certainly as a… Read More
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Curious Fly Caster PDFs for Download: Teaching Fly Casting.
This is to let you know that my two sections on teaching, The Interim Research Report and The Progress Report are now available for download. As before the PDFs are covered by a Creative Commons Licence and you should check the rules before downloading if… Read More
Fly Casting: More Than One way
For quite a while, especially since I got into movement and how we learn (and perform) it, there has been something or some things bothering me about the conceptual models and assumptions underlying how we teach and talk about solutions for, people having casting problems.… Read More
Fly Casting Movement – Trial and Error
Teaching Fly Casting: Progress Report
It has taken a while but I have finally put together what I want to say after researching the teaching of fly casting. If and when I change my mind or want to add something I will amend this page. What I focus is on… Read More
Casting Efficient, Narrow Loops – Why, What and How
There I was down at the park again dodging rain showers by standing under some fir trees with their obligingly dense foliage. While I waited I played with side casting using PUALDs and false casts producing delivery casts out to fifty something feet. Circumstances limited… Read More
Fly Casting Movement: Effort as an Organising Idea for Control
Introduction As a curious person I want to build my understanding of fly casting on solid ground. It remains a work in progress. As a metaphor I was recently attracted to the means by which a railway viaduct designed by Brunel was constructed over marshy… Read More
Coaching a Friend: Teaching Principles Applied
Not very long ago I spent an hour or two with a friend who wants to improve his casting. I’ve fished with him and worked with him before so I knew what I would like him to tackle – overpowered forward cast, underdeveloped back cast… Read More
Teaching Fly Casting: Interim Research Report
Have just added the above as a new page. As explained in its introduction section, “I have spent a lot of time trying to get fly casting teachers to talk about their work – not about what they teach but rather how they teach. With some notable exceptions it… Read More
Teaching Fly Casting – More of the Instructors Odyssey from Vince Brandon
In his second excellent contribution to this collection Vince takes us further and deeper into his learning about learning and what happens in the relationship between fly casting teachers and students. I won’t attempt an all inclusive synopsis but he explores verbal and non verbal… Read More
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