https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mhBWV8C0so
Heres a video of me toss’n one. I practice almost daily. I’ve gotten fairly decent at it, but every once in a wile I couldn’t open it if my life depended on it. Just pay action to your technique. Make small changes every 5 throws.
What works for me.
Rope tied to right hand
Rope looped and in right hand
Grab net 60% of the way down right hand (weights on thumb side)
take left hand and grab weights in front and peel the net back over right hand.
swing right hand back to 6 oclock and left hand to 3 oclock
sing both hands forward keep left hand in closer and stop it at 12 oclock whipping right hand past it to 10 oclock. RELEASE
Keep on practicing, hope that helps! I want to able to toss one of those 15 footer, but dang they’re expensive…
Breeze, does that method not involve the teeth? Sounds like you are left handed, so am I.
quote:P.S.: Cracker Larry, this "assistant" would solve the problem with your teeth!
That would work, might cause some more serious problems though[:0]
My only other advice to add is to throw the net with your entire body, not just your arms. Ankles, knees, hips, and shoulders all in a rotational twist. Throwing the net doesn’t tire me nearly as much as pulling it back in does.
spec, you’re a wimp, if you let your wife run over you for something like that! Mine would just be afraid, I’d be looking to teach her younger sister![:0]
Easy, I might be a wimp, but I’m not stupid. My wife is good with a Browning A5! Besides, I’m 60, and the bikini babes don’t pay me much attention anymore.
I ain’t no wimp, but I not stupid either. My wife is plenty good enough with Remington, Springfield, Ruger and she can run the Stoner and Thompson too. Nope, I’m not going there I’d just buy shrimp:smiley:
Not to mention, at my age, if I did go there I’d probably have a heart attack and die anyway.
All true! I’m too old to start over - and I have a good wife, so I’ll just behave. I’d never be able to drive the boat with something like that on the bow anyway.
I met an old timer several yrs. ago, and he had a clothespin tied around his neck. He used that instead of his teeth. There were a couple of rubber bands on the clothespin to hold the weight of the net(like his teeth). I never tried it, but it seems like it would work.
Bob Van Gundy
Marine Designs,Inc.
Custom Aluminum Fabrication
803-727-4069
I met an old timer several yrs. ago, and he had a clothespin tied around his neck. He used that instead of his teeth. There were a couple of rubber bands on the clothespin to hold the weight of the net(like his teeth). I never tried it, but it seems like it would work.
Bob Van Gundy
Marine Designs,Inc.
Custom Aluminum Fabrication
803-727-4069
That sounds like a good idea, or a good way to drown…
I have seen people do that also, and was considering trying that myself. Clothespins are getting hard to find though. Does anybody own a clothes line anymore? Wait, idea, I’ve got some old outrigger release clips with adjustable tension. This just might work good
Thanks for bumping my old memory. Going to try that.
quote:or a good way to drown....
Probably a good idea to work out the tension needed while standing in the yard
That sounds like a good idea, or a good way to drown…
haha that reminds me. A coworker told me he saw a guy on the harbor side of S.Island try to throw a net while standing in a sit on kayak. He fell off an nearly drown, cutting/pulling the net off his wrist to save himself.
I’d just buy shrimp:smiley:
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