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True or false: the six-step method recommends correcting every visible fault at once.

False — correct one fault at a time, starting with the one that is doing the most damage to the student's progress.

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Answer: false. The six-step method corrects one fault at a time, and it starts with the fault that is doing the most damage to the student’s progress. A caster who is shown three corrections at once cannot tell which change produced the improvement, and neither can you.

Correcting everything visible also spreads the practice thin. A student can hold one cue in mind while casting; two or three cues compete, and the old movement usually wins. Pick the fault that is costing the most — the one breaking the loop, spoiling the delivery or making the cast unsafe — and work only on that until it improves. Then observe again and choose the next one.

Each round has a beginning and an end: you observed, you chose, you corrected, you looked again. The discipline is the point. One correction you can verify is worth more than a list of everything wrong with the cast.

Source

From Six-step fault analysis and correction (Bruce Richards), the one-fault-at-a-time rule of the method required in Task 19 of the CI Study Guide (2025); terms follow the FFI Fly Casting Definitions.

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