Al...and Jerry...
Yes. Sometimes I use a note or whistle which changes pitch as the acceleration of the casting stroke. It's enough to get into some student's brains better than anything else.
This is an example of onomasiology (the study of the means of expressing a given concept.)
Gordy
From: jerry puckett <jerry_puckett2001@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Gordon Hill <hillshead@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: FW: RE: Smoothness
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 05:19:48 -0800 (PST)
Yes Al, for those with musical experience the conductor with his baton SMOOTHLY brings out the music. With my musical background, instrumental and choral, when I practice, depending on the length of line, sometimes I will pick a song with an appropriate beat and sing while casting thinking of my rod as a musical baton. For example, try casting while singing "Born Free"-- very difficult to be jerky or overpowering. Songs with a three/four or four/four beat work well. Some days I feel like I am conducting for mother nature and her creatures and everything just SMOOTHLY flows with the rhythm of the Universe. Drawing form my athletic background I would call this "being in the zone!" but more a combination of poetic character interwoven with the physical, or simply, "casting poetry with musical synchronization and symmetrical physical motion," my definition for SMOOTHNESS.This also can be an excellent form of nerve tonic! Well maybe not for those listening.Jerry
Gordon Hill <hillshead@xxxxxxx> wrote:
From: "Allen Crise" <flysoup@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Gordon Hill" <hillshead@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Smoothness
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 18:11:41 -0600
Howdy Gordy and GangI tell my students that I do not want them to hear the rod during the cast. Not just the line.If they are applying power too soon you will hear the shooossss.It I ask them to play sweet music very softly.ol AL