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Comments by Bruce Richards on Guy Manning's study . My brief answer, below his :-
Gordy
From: bwrichards@xxxxxxx
To: "Gordon
Hill" <hillshead@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: FW: Guy Manning's study/
competition distance casting
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:18:05
-0500
Hi Gordy,
Just back from teaching 2 days each at the Long
Beach and Golden Gate
clubs, wonderful time and very well received. Guy was
there for our Monday
session, but we didn't talk about his study. I did read
what he wrote below
and responded to a couple things in another note. I think
the major thing
to consider is that these casts were made by the best
distance casters
around, and I think these were with shooting heads, not the
new 5 wt. game.
With relatively short carry, casting styles change
considerably.
That said, I think the most interesting thing below is that Guy
claims that
wrist rotation did not increase rod bend. This is very possible,
rotation
could be continued at just the rate needed to maintain rod bend,
no
increase, no decrease. What is really needed to fully understand what
is
happening is electronic analysis of rod rotation in conjunction with
video
(or electronic rotation AND flex analysis, which we can do). This
all
happens so fast, and the most critical part is where the speed is
greatest,
the real answers lie in hard data more than visual analysis, in my
opinion.
Wish I had more time to review, but 3 days out of the office
puts me about
a week behind!
Regards,
Bruce
Scientific
Anglers/3M
4100 James Savage Rd.
Midland, MI 48642 USA
Tel:
989-496-1113
Fax: 989-496-3374
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Bruce...
Thanks for your comments.
Yes....I can see that casting with heads would make a tremendous difference.
The moment of torque may have increased with wrist rotation maintaining rod bend though not significantly increasing it, yet resulting in increased tip speed as the stroke progressed.
Analysis with the Casting Analyzer would have taught us a great deal when combined with video analysis.
Gordy