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----- Original Message -----
From: Allen Crise
To: Gordon Hill
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 9:31 AM
Subject: RE: More tips for practice Howdy Gordy & Group
Most do not know that muscles learn when resting. To just keep
casting and casting is not the best on the body at all.I have found that brief
stops and resting after a set of cast. i.e short cast to a 20 ft target. Then
just contemplate the cast for a minute or two. making 'mind cast' if you
will.
My practice is to run my targets 20 twice, 30 twice, 40 twice 60
and then 80 twice Then one more for pure distance. Hail Mary
cast.
Then go to the Task list for the TEST.. I carried the list out
with me for about one month. each day I ran the test. This took all together
about 25 minutes. That left about 5 minutes for a problem area. Like maybe a
right hook from vertical. This I would do for a short time. Run the targets one
more time.
Then wind in on the reel Often wiping the line as I came in on a cloth. I
felt that this would remove the grit and dirt that I did not want on my reel.
This I did every day. Rain, sun, fog, wind, it did not matter I was casting. In
the 18 months before my test I missed about 3 days of casting. Fishing did not
count. Teaching did not count. This was MY time. Now during the day I might
answer some of Gordy's questions. reading about casting. Videos were studied
with the control in hand. I will tell you I lived Fly Casting. I have found that
the early mornings were the best for me. Not when I was physical tired in the
late afternoon. (My casting was better too.)
I do work a rotating shift that lets me cast in different times of
the day. Here in Texas it is often hot and dry. So I seldom had to don my rain
gear but I did on a couple of times. IF not lighting I was casting. I was an
love obsession that has not let up much.
Sometime Gordy or one of the other students would voice a problem
in a cast. I would pick up my rod and work through the cast. Then come back to
the computer and put it in words. Gordy and I would hash it over. Thanks to
Gordy for all the time he as spent in teaching me how to
type....
Have a great day.
May God protect the storm ravaged.
ol
Al |