valentino damiani

Born in San Benedetto del Tronto (Ascoli Piceno) on 06 January 1987.
The passion for fishing was passed on to me by my father; at the age of 8 I took my first fly rod in the hand of a boy I met in a trout lake near me.

I start building artificial flies with the help of various magazines in the industry, trying to improve myself in this fantastic world.

At the age of about 20, my path to learn the technical launch started by Claudio Roberto Tosti of SLM, after about 2 years of courses and training I obtain the first patent as an SLM instructor, I participate at events, various fairs, making my passion grow more and more for launch.

At about 26, I have the honor and pleasure of joining Roberto's TLT Academy Pragliola, where, thanks to his presence, I had the opportunity in the following 3 years to grow further, starting to have more critical and technical autonomy.

In 2015, thanks to the friendship of Marino Di Luca and after a specialization course on the Nera I joined the SIM, obtaining the instructor's license after one year.

Thanks to the collaboration of the DT Marino Di Luca I can appreciate and see the great difference in the gesture and its execution, the care of the movements and the possibility to carefully analyze in the smallest details in the launch.