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Having scoffed at the old men years ago when they grumped about aches and pains, and said "you're time will come", my apologies. I tend to do quite a bit of reach mend casts when fishing dry's as it has proven itself time and again to yield the best results. I am noticing that comes with some shoulder discomfort every so often; particularly after a long day on the river. How many of you have (or are) dealing with this?
While at Boeing, the topic of Cumulative Stress/Musculoskeletal Disorder was a big deal with lots of folks affected and lots of efforts being invested to reduce/eliminate. Unfortunately, I could never get the Ergonomists to take a look into fly casting motions. I'm not finding lots on the web about fly casting and CTD, but this article is interesting... plus it was done by Montana State University, so it gets automatic street cred. There are also some good links to other related studies at the end.
http://working-well.org/articles/pdf/Fishing.pdf
The golf industry has spent a great deal of R&D in swing research, largely high speed video based; both to improve golf score but also to correct bad mechanics that cause injury. If that same technology was developed for fly casting would you want to have your casting style analyzed?
While at Boeing, the topic of Cumulative Stress/Musculoskeletal Disorder was a big deal with lots of folks affected and lots of efforts being invested to reduce/eliminate. Unfortunately, I could never get the Ergonomists to take a look into fly casting motions. I'm not finding lots on the web about fly casting and CTD, but this article is interesting... plus it was done by Montana State University, so it gets automatic street cred. There are also some good links to other related studies at the end.
http://working-well.org/articles/pdf/Fishing.pdf
The golf industry has spent a great deal of R&D in swing research, largely high speed video based; both to improve golf score but also to correct bad mechanics that cause injury. If that same technology was developed for fly casting would you want to have your casting style analyzed?