ol Al on Lefty's teaching

Howdy Gordy, and group.

I have a drill that I use for myself.

 I have some Elect wires crossing my casting area They are high enough so that I can stand directly under them and not worry about hitting them..

  I make a Vertical loop from a vertical cast. I try to make my line follow the over head lines. When I can make the rod leg and fly leg align with the over head wires I feel I have a great vertical loop and rod path that is tracking straight. If you try this make sure you have lots of room under the lines.

  You can do the same by just watching your line as you make overhead false casts. You do have to watch you do not fall over back ward. embarrassing

 On Lefty one of his sayings is "You can not make a cast until you get the end of the line moving"

 I feel that Lefty is one of the great user of the English language. He can say more with fewer words.

Let's take what he said and take out the main words. Can Not, Cast, End, Moving. I  took his 15 word and made the statement with 5 important words.  So what He did not say was how, or direction. They were not needed. You can make a spiral cast pick up. wiggle cast pick up, you can strip in the line until you get the end moving. If you were to have a lawyer say the same thing it would require two books and and engineer would require drawing, pictures with arrows and a slid rule. Sorry Computer graphics.

 

Second part is 'Teaching to challenge the student' only to the next level not over their heads so that they drown.

 I too made a 'crib sheet' for Jason's book it is a great book to look up something in. Not sit and read

 Lefty is more fun to just read and you can still learn BUT DO NOT SKIP WORDS as in the above saying if you missed any of the important words you would miss the meaning. Lefty has to be read word for word. He does not waste any.

ol Al