Youcan be a part of this exciting new expansion of adaptive sports in our region by sponsoring the CAST Tournament. The tournament draws players locally, nationally and internationally, including beginner and professional players.
Your support will help keep the cost to participants low and provides financial assistance to players for travel expenses that would otherwise prohibit them from participating. It will also allow us to host a youth standing adaptive tennis clinic during the event to introduce kids to the game of tennis. For your charitable donation, we will provide you or your organization recognition throughout the tournament.
GRETA (Guilford Regional Tennis Association) is a non-profit, 501c3 organization dedicated to promoting the sport of tennis in our community and surrounding area. (GRETA is incorporated as Greensboro Tennis Organization, Inc. and operates under the Dba for GRETA.)
CEM Solutions Co. is proud to host the third annual CAST (Corrosion and Skilled Trade) Fishing Tournament! This tournament is a great way to give back to our industry while having a blast fishing at the same time! Competition is fierce, so bring your best fishing crew and come network and have a great day in the sun!
I'm using this rod for a number of applications. Buzzbaits, spinnerbaits, chatter baits, and magnum sizes crankbaits. The reason is the combination of heavy power with moderate action and because it is a glass carbon mix.
I can throw 1/2 spinnerbaits and buzzbaits with ease and the moderate action allows the fish time to get the bait into its mouth before I set the hook. I will say that moderate action can get exciting when fishing in heavy brush with a spinnerbait or buzzbait, but the heavy power saves the day just as the fish heads for cover. It has enough power to pull the fish from the brush or keep it away.
I was fortunate enough to buy a 7 foot spinnerbait model second hand for a steal. Now it is the only baitcast rod I use. It simply handles everything I have thrown at it and then some. Instead of changing rods I now just change out reels and use this rod for bass to musky without a hitch. I'm a spinning rod Finesse fisherman for the most part and only use a baitcaster for 1/4 oz. and up. I can't imagine using any other rod for this purpose. My go to big water rod for line weights over 10 pounds. Buy one and don't look back if your budget allows. You won't regret it. Thanks again St. Croix for your loyalty to your customer base by providing such great products. I'm with Simon Peter, I go fish!
Tournament is a 2010 Indian Malayalam-language road and sports film written, directed and produced by Lal starring Fahadh Faasil, Manu, Rupa Manjari and Praveen Prem. It started its shooting in August 2010 and was released on 25 December 2010. The film features songs by Deepak Dev and original score by Alex Paul. Cinematography was handled by Venu and Amal Neerad for a song.
Lal used a new format called play-replay, which is really the first in Malayalam film: One scene is replayed from different viewpoints after several scenes. Lal used this technique in the full length of the film.
The movie begins by introducing the main characters of the story,Viswanathan,Usman Ali, and Balachandran playing cricket. Their coach informs the three that they are selected for APL Cochin team's final selection tournament in Bangalore. Excited, they celebrate and accidentally meets Aswathy Alex a freelance photographer. Right before the trip, Balachandran is injured while riding the bike and misses his trip to Bangalore. Unfortunately for Viswanathan and Usman, their flight gets cancelled due to a bomb threat. Aswathy then motivates then to take a road trip and have fun while travelling telling them that it will relax them. Bobby (whom they meet at the airport) also joins them in this trip. The rest of the trip they have a lot of adventure. Usman suffers from food poisoning while eating from a Dabba and is hospitalised. He misses the tournament due to this. The scene cuts back to the incident where Balachandran was injured. Now it shows that it was Usman who pulled a thread in between the roads and caused the accident to Balachandran. They proceed with their journey. But Vishwanathan hurts his leg when the jeep losses its control. They decide to halt the journey for a while. In the meanwhile, both Aswathy and Bobby then go to investigate John Subrahmaniyam. They meet a teashop owner who promises to help them investigate John. They enter John's house in the pretext of being his girlfriend's cousins. But John identifies them and warns them to stay away. But they engage in a fight and Bobby loses his consciousness. When he wakes up in the morning, he sees a dead Aswathy. But the tea shop owner rescues him. In the replay, we are shown that Aswathy is not dead. In another replay scene, it is shown that it was Bobby who opens the door causing Viswanathan to fall and break his leg. Tea shop owner asks Bobby to leave the place. Bobby drives away and it's revealed that the tea shop owner is actually John Subrahmaniyam. Now he regrets his action. Later Viswanathan becomes Man of the Match of the tournament. Bobby marries Aswathy in the presence of Viswanathan, Usman and Balachandran.
The songs are composed by Deepak Dev, making this his first collaboration with Lal. The soundtrack album, which was released in December 2010, features six songs overall, with lyrics penned by Vayalar Sharath Chandra Varma. The song "Nila Nila" is repeated at the end of the album, with Karthik being credited for both songs.
Paresh C Palicha from Rediff.com wrote "With Tournament, director Lal makes a departure from his typical mimicry humour. But the film falls into the genre of crass comedy, which is a huge disappointment"[1] Sify.com wrote "Tournament has its moments and the ?replay? format gets the viewers involved in the storyline right from the beginning itself. But then, that turns out to be the problem with the film as well, as the plot seems to be too simple to become a taut thriller" [2]
A couple of friends of mine have just got into a bit of tournament casting, and I think they surprised themselves when they went to their first casting tournament in Cornwall on Sunday. They are both seriously talented anglers who catch more fish than a lot of us put together, and they can both put baits where they need to most of the time - but with a lot of anglers, there is always the question of "how far is my lead actually going ?" (and on the flip side, a lot of anglers wildly exaggerate how far they are casting. 200 yards with bait ? Dream on !!! Most guys have no idea how far 200 yards actually is.)
I used to do a fair bit of tournament casting when I was at university down here in Plymouth (those were the days - as much time as I wanted), and I was taught how to pendulum cast by a really kind local angler called Kelvin Bedford. Never once did he clutter up our minds with endless technical rubbish, rather he helped me and a couple of mates to simply develop our casting to the point where we were doing pretty well. My mate Chris could chuck a lead an awesome distance.
I did ok at a few casting tournaments (and I had huge fun doing so), but I had always promised myself that if I ever went casting instead of fishing, then the casting would be knocked on the head immediately. I caught myself one day heading off to practise casting when the weather and tides were perfect for fishing, and that was the last time for me. To this day I have never done a pendulum cast when I am out fishing, and I still believe there is no need for it at all on the beach or the rocks.
Yes, learning to pendulum cast properly was a very good thing to do, but a full pendulum cast belongs on the tournament field only. It creates huge power if done properly, but it is impossible to hold on to a full blooded tournament pendulum cast when you are in a proper fishing situation. I have still yet to meet an angler who can execute what I would call a "really good pendulum cast" when out fishing. Instead I have had to duck far too many times as people give it a go and do nothing but endanger themselves and us guys around them. Leads and baits flying around all over the place is downright dangerous, and far too many anglers simply are not compressing their rods at all (look at the photo above - that is Julian Shambrook bending a rod properly). No compression ? No distance.................
But, and this is a big but - learning to pendulum cast taught me one vital thing : how to bend a beachcasting rod properly. I learnt what it took to compress these things, and from that knowledge, I then developed my own kind of out and out "fishing cast" for those times when a bit of distance is required. It delivers huge power if needs be, but it is always under control and I am never swinging a big lead and bait around my head and causing danger to guys around me. It works just fine, it gets me out there if needs be, and I can repeat it again and again.
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