Excellent article and well written.

As a side bar, I have found women are much easier to teach to cast than men. I taught my daughter some years ago and she was casting as well in an hour as I was in my first year. Women have the ability to learn to be patient and gentle on those first learning casts. Their timing comes easy. Men, on the other hand, tend to immediately think power rather than timing. Their first casts result in a pile of line or a tailing loop right out of the box.

I am sure this is not universally true. Just my experience.

Bob