JB great picture.I think your warming exercise is to clear up the way to your casting possition with the shuffle. JB is so hardcore that he has a shovel specially dedicated for winter casting course preparation. About that shovel: It is special model that I had made specifically for such practice s...

Mike—I presume you are talking about something that looks like this? If so, just know that I used that same line last week for slinging streamers in somewhat more liquid water. For me, the major snow-time concerns are sharp or abrasive edges if casting over ice, etc. The shot here was all powder sn...

James—I'd say just give up now, while you're behind... :p Or...if you don't want to give up quite yet, I'd say that it's not unusual to see a gulf between pantomime and practical. With pantomiming, it's easy to get it all spot-on (that's why you're pantomiming, I'd guess), but then translating that...

I absolutely loathe McDonalds. I found it very hard to find decent fresh or natural food at all in the US. Even the bread is highly sugared and everything appears to be full of preservative. Visit me in Portland this coming summer, Paul, and we'll solve those issues for you locally (not all of Amer...

Gordy—I had secretly hoped that you might be willing to take this one on! I look forward to both your computations and any video analysis that you can provide. As for the wine-tasting aspects, I figured that since the focus of the site is also jazz that the readership would appreciate the use of su...

Seeing as how there was some misunderstanding about this Very Serious new addition to the fly-casting world, the guys at J&FF asked me to comment on the video. You can read my critical take on the New, Improved Shadow Cast HERE . I know that a few friends here at SL understand how Very Serious ...

My appologies. I was having a bad day and I was open to misinterpretation. You have both contributed magnificently to this board and I should have known better. Again, sorry. Bob Bob—No problem. I understand, and it's easy to misinterpret on a written board, especially when the original writer (me)...

(from Rudi): I am having trouble downloading the MoCap clip, but I’ll keep trying. A couple of questions: When false-casting, does the haul end at RSP too? Is the first frame you just submitted close to Merlin’s theoretical most advantageous release point? Where is Maximum Angular Velocity in this ...

Good for email. Keeps the rabble out. Wouldn't be good to waste bandwidth on something interesting. But maybe you didn't mean that in the way it sounded. Sorry. Bob Bob—No, it was not intended the way it might have come across. And apologies to any one who thought that I was trying to keep useful i...

Rasmus—You're welcome. Good to see the discussion continuing on various levels of intensity. Rudi—I'll get back here with some more info for you as per your posts. It's early morning here and I have to run. Hi Jason, That motion capture system of yours is totally awesome. Really being able to relat...

Rasmus—Don't feel put off! I'm just a fly fisher who happens to like fish, flies and water, but who also happens to like digging into the geekier guts of it all, too (as are more than a few who lurk here)! :) As far as the real-world goes, and as far as the teaching of releasing before the hand ful...

Hi everyone, I am so late to this discussion that I am probably just early for the next one! :D I think like most long SL threads this one has wandered off into who-knows-where and back again, so I might as well just jump in here. I did read a few posts and hope that I can at least add a little bit...