500fps Fly Cast – m1 (3 versions)
As promised, here are the first three 500fps fly casting videos (sequence m1) from Grunde Løvoll. These particular videos were used to generate data for “The Rod & The Cast,” which was written back in 2006 (and first published in the Japanese “FlyFisher” magazine).
These videos are not directly viewable here at FF&W, instead they are provided as zipped (.zip) downloads (any modern Mac or Windows PC should be able to unzip without trouble). This way, you can watch them on your own computer (and save me a potential pile of bandwidth due to replays).
These videos each present something interesting to the viewer, including things such as a virtual “broomstick” that really shows the advantages of a flexible rod, a tip-path trace, and numbered tracking dots on the rod and line. If you dig this kind of thing (and better yet, if have the software to mess around with it), enjoy. If you don’t care much for 70MB worth of slo-mo casting, just skip the downloads.
So here they are:
m1_2p_broom.mpg.zip (18.7MB)
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m1_forward_with_smooth_tipline.mpg.zip (22.5MB)
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m1_forward_with_tracknumbers.mpg.zip (28.7MB)
NOTES: Copyright 2010 Grunde Løvoll (grunde (at) fiskekroken (dot) org)
The caster is Mathias Lilleheim.
The rod is a T&T PA905-3.
The video is recorded while false casting 10 meters (outside the rod tip) of a AFTMA 5 line + a regular trout leader.
The videos are released under the CC Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)
Great, thanks!
Simon—Glad you like these. I’ll get a couple of graphs up here with some key data on m1, as well (though “The Rod & The Cast” already has some of that data in graph form).
Hi Jason,
thanks allot for posting the videos!
I hope someone will enjoy watching them…
Cheers,
Grunde
Grunde—No problem, my friend. A few gigabytes worth are already downloaded, so there is a least a “select audience” out there! ;-)