Teaching without useing the word 'Casting'

[qrrfish1]

Learning curve cut to minutes rather than years. When a student tells you they learned more in minutes than they have working with instructors for 10 years. You start to understand you've found a key. I used to teach three or more days a week and did so for over thirty years. Took me a long time to figure out why people were not understanding such a simple thing as throwing a fly rod. There is only one real answer. Instructors were telling them to do the wrong thing. Most students know or have a concept of what casting means to them, Why tell them to do the wrong thing and confuse them when with some effort you can learn to teach yourself to use more accurate language. The number of instructors who haven't yet made the effort, utterly astounds me.