Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar
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Certified Casting Instructor Program

• "Learning always involves conscious and
  unconscious processes" (Caine and Caine (1991)
  Constructivist teaching)
• Students need time to process 'how' as well as
  'what' they've learned.

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The first step in the process of becoming a good
fly casting instructor is to become a top notch
fly caster yourself Dave
Engerbretson
Certified Casting Instructor Program
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The second step is becoming a top notch student
of fly casting
Certified Casting Instructor Program
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The third step is becoming an effective
communicator
Certified Casting Instructor Program
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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• You must know the mechanical principles which
  govern fly casting

• Fly casting involves different STYLES,
  understand the common principles that apply to
  all styles.

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• Before you teach
• Prepare, prepare, prepare
• Know your students abilities
• Carry a bag of tricks
• Do not insult history

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• Student Considerations
• Safety
• Age
• Physical abilities
• Sex
• Comfort
• Other physical activities

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• Site considerations
• Casting space
• Weather conditions
• Personal Facilities

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• We learn by
• Doing Hands on
• Seeing Visual demonstration
• Hearing Telling you how

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• Feel, hand over hand,
• Visually, use mimicking techniques
• Audibly, use analogy

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• FEELING
• Put students hand on your hand, or vice versa
• Paint brush
• Close your eyes
• Point your thumb up
• Hand and eye stop

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• Visual Examples
• Break down the steps, slow motion, on the ground.
  
• Slow motion in the air
• Pantomime
• Exaggerate the acceleration

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• Auditory examples
• Accelerate to a positive stop
• Hammer the nail
• Whummmp
• Break the tip
• Apple on a stick
• Paint brush

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• Teaching considerations
• Fly casting experience
• Equipment suitability
• Time
• Expectations
• Encourage clarifications and questions
• Student/Instructor ratio

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• Teaching aids
• Whiteboard/markers/flip chart
• Handouts
• Pen and pencil
• Video
• Computer/LCD

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• Teaching suggestions
• Clearly state goals
• Keep instruction brief avoid long answers and
  theory
• Orient students with light/sun from behind
• Away from noise and adverse conditions
• Keep student close to you when instructing
• Keep it simple and FUN

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• Teaching techniques
• Use visible equipment
• Make casting changes slowly
• Use pantomime and unstrung rods

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• Additional Tricks
• Watch your back cast (trade places)
• Use cuff to cure wrist breaking
• Wristlock
• Relax the grip, tighten at stop
• Touch rod tip on water

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• REMEMBER
• The people we serve are far more important than
  what we do !
• Its only fly casting

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar

• There are thousands of very good fly casters
• Fly Casting Instructors are the communicators of
  the fly casting community Dennis Grant

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Certified Casting Instructor Seminar