Task 2 asks for wide loops on both the forward and back casts: several narrow false casts first, then you announce the change (or the examiner calls it), and the next forward cast and everything after it is wide. The video’s title still carries the older framing — narrow back, wide front — but the 2025 form wants both wide. Get the pickup and two or three good loops going first.

What the instructor says

• Stop. There is no drift at this stop — the second the rod stops, you rotate.
• Rotate. The wrist drifts down until the rod is about 20 degrees off horizontal.
• Bounce back up. Come back up rotating first and translating as you come; translating forward and then coming up loses the loop.
• Do not pause. Waiting drags the rod back and ticks the fly, which most examiners dislike; bounce instead, the second it hits, like a ball off the ground.
• Track first. The tip goes back and forth on a straight line every cast; have someone watch from the front and the back.

Putting it to work

1. Make a good cast, then stop and rotate a hundred times.
2. Rotate back up with the line on the ground; add translation last.

Source

From the FFI CI walkthrough series by Dayle Mazzarella (Chapter 3 — FFI Casting Instructor Certification Tasks, Fly Fishing Coach International), lesson 3, 00:02:47. See the video library and the task pages for the exam wording; terms follow the FFI Fly Casting Definitions.