You'll start the cast when the sinker comes up to the rod and almost touches and about when it starts back down is when you lay into it ... the sinker whips around really fast and is really hard to hold if it's a very stiff rod like a Breakaway Stinger ... I've torn something lose in my left elbow and right shoulder casting the stinger and haven't been able to practice casting at all ... I can still cast but it makes it so I have pretty bad pain just picking up something like a coffee mug with my left hand. It doesn't seem to hurt much when I cast but later it's pretty painful ... think I got stinger elbow now ... hehehe

As you can see I take a step forward kinda like when a baseball player steps into his swing. Right when I get the sinker to almost touch the rod I put the rod directly over my right shoulder and push up and out with my right hand but most of the power is acquired from the left arm ... the right arm/hand is mostly a pivot point but it's still applying as much pressure to the rod as I can get ... military press where you push up on the weights is a whole lot less than you can pull down with ... I can military press 100 lbs pretty easily but I can pull down well over my body weight which has been as much as 500 lbs and more so my right hand moves out more towards then middle and end of the cast ... the left hand pulls through with ease.... if you would put as much pressure pushing up and out with your right arm as you can pull down with your left arm if you're right handed you'd have perfect efficiency casting with this style cast but the human body just don't work that way ... I've tried to increase my strength in my right arm pushing up but I've got severe shoulder damage from an injury working in a lumber mill in 1984 ... I guess I shouldn't even be able to cast the way I do as my prime has been gone for well over 15 years now with a broken back in 91 and several other injuries working in the oilfield and just a few months b4 I went to Austin TX to compete I had a blood clot go through my heart after banging my leg on my tractor and it lodged on my lung and messed the rythm of my heart up (atrial fibrilation) and that took a lot out of me so this should be pretty evident of this style of casting's efficiency. I am fairly frail now and the average man I'd say is most likely much stronger than I will ever be again but using this cast I can cast well over 700 ft with the US standard weight and line class at 5.25 oz and .325mm line.

The Fiberglass rod is very weak compared to the carbon rods they use for competition and you can see there is a lot of bend in it.