The examiner performs three faults chosen from the form’s list of eight — five overhead (wrist, force, slack, tracking, timing) and three roll cast (low forward stop, hooked D-loop, delivery across the anchor), and one of the three must be a roll cast fault. The video works through six of them: slack, poor stop, two tailing loops, too much wrist, tracking. Recognise, correct, perform.

What the instructor says

• Loop, rod, body. Read the loop, then the rod, then the body, and correct upstream: the body fixes the rod, the rod fixes the loop.
• Symptom, not cause. A big loop only says the arc is too big — check the wrist, because body rotation makes the same loop. Creep drifts early, power flicks late; nothing wrong suggests tracking.
• First error. Fix slack first — the fly must move the instant the rod moves — then the back cast, never both.
• Quick fixes. Roll slack out. Wrist: pine tree stop, 10 and 2. Stop: two cones, a firm stop. Creep: “don’t move it until you say hi, mom”. Power: longer stroke, football to a kid. Tracking: tape lines.
• Two or three sentences. Name it, demonstrate it, stop: “I would do this. That’s it.”

Putting it to work

1. Call loop, rod, body out loud on a partner’s cast, then name the fault and fix.
2. Rehearse all eight — including the roll-cast three — to perform each on demand.

Source

From the FFI CI walkthrough series by Dayle Mazzarella (Chapter 3 — FFI Casting Instructor Certification Tasks, Fly Fishing Coach International), lesson 22, 00:00:19. See the video library and the teaching-task pages for the exam wording; terms follow the FFI Fly Casting Definitions.