How-To/Techniques
In the previous video, I discussed the nature of acceleration. Now I'll build on that by looking at an essential feature of acceleration which, for convenience, I'll simply term "rotation," although we could call it "pivoting," or simply "turning."
By using your whole body and rotating at the waist, you use your hips as a fulcrum for better performance. The idea isn't always to cast longer or harder, the goal is to cast smarter. Golfers, tennis players, and baseball players all use their bodies to increase efficiency while using class 3 levers. Good fly casters should do the same.
This is the second in a series of five articles examining the physics and mechanics that determine the outcomes of all casts, based on Ed Jaworowski's nearly 70 years of casting, testing, experimentation, teaching, and consulting with physicists, kinesiologists, and engineers.