Mo-Cap Fly Cast – Haul + Shoot 1
More FCI-based motion-capture goodness (and there will be a new post of Grunde’s 500fps videos soon, too). Like the previous mo-cap video, the file linked to here is based on the original 200fps capture. The file shows a standard, overhead cast sequence made by me using a 5-weight, weight-forward line on a Sage XP590-4 rod. The cast was captured back in 2008, and has been used to generate some study data related to hauling speed and timing.
In the video, you can see me (the small collection of wire-framed dots just to left of the lower-middle) making both a hauled backcast and a hauled forward cast coupled with a shoot. The line that is hauled and then shot can be seen as the two white dots immediately in front of my (wired) body. You can see the haul on the forward cast pull downward, and then the line begin to move up and forward again with increasing speed as the rod tip passes the straight position (or RSP, in casting-geek lingo) and into counterflex. That’s the shoot.
Note that the line in this capture was “flagged” at certain points with special reflective tape (necessary for the mo-cap cameras to “see” the line). This caused some additional air drag which may have had a small effect on both my haul timing/speed and the shoot process.
Hope that the casting-centric readers here at FF&W enjoy this one, too (note that this is a bigger file—approximately 6.7MB).
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