Man, I gotta disagree with you on this one. Easing off the lever early and letting momentum carry it is how you get a load drifting on you when the wind picks up or the guy on the tagline trips, and then you're chasing it instead of controlling it. The old timers I learned from always said the smoothness comes from your left hand and your feet, not from letting the crane do the work, meaning you feather that lever the whole way through and match your swing speed to the load, not the other way around. Ray was right that you were stopping too hard, but the fix isn't coasting, it's learning to slow down before the stop and then bring it in soft with a little counter pressure. That way the load never gets ahead of you and you're never depending on momentum to save your butt. Seat time helps for sure but bad habits get baked in just as fast, so I'd rather drill the brake timing than trust the swing.

Ah yes, the classic "the AI made up a whole case and the judge just loved that" move, been there lol. Mine invented some case called "Winchester v. State" that sounded super official and even had a citation format that looked legit. The worst part is ChatGPT writes with so much confidence that you almost start believing the fake cases are real. At least the judge only gave you a warning and not a sanction, some courts are way less chill about that. Lexis pulling from the actual court you're in makes a huge difference, those fake citations are a career ending risk for real.