The delivery of a bowl either forehand or backhand is exactly the same except for the aiming point. The key elements are:
1. Arm: The motion is all from the shoulder like a clock pendulum. Lock your wrist and elbow during delivery. Rest on or hold your thigh with the other hand. Begin with the bowl low at a comfortable place between 4 and 6 o’clock. Your backswing is therefore not a full arc. Now swing forward releasing at the lowest part of the arc and continuing through in a straight line.
2. Legs: Start with feet parallel, together or slightly apart. Take one step directly forward about the length of your lower leg and bend down so that you release the bowl near the ground no more than two feet in front you.
3. Body: Your hips and shoulders should move straight forward. Do not bend your torso.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Advice to New Members - Take Your Time
When it's your turn to bowl you have complete possession of the rink until your bowl finishes rolling. Use that time productively.
1. Pick up your next bowl as you leave the mat so that you have it in your hand when you gain possission of the mat.
2. Step quickly to the mat, take any instruction from your skip, and check your bowl that it's turned to the direction you have chosen to bowl.
3. Visualize the line that you must take to deliver the bowl to it's intended destination. Pick a spot along that straight line (before the natural bias of the bowl will turn it) and aim at that spot.
4. Have your feet parallel to the line of travel.
[Next: Features of Bowl Delivery]
5. Stay on the mat until your bowl comes to a stop. Use this time to think about adjustments to your aim and your speed or, if successful, to fix in your mind exactly what you did.
1. Pick up your next bowl as you leave the mat so that you have it in your hand when you gain possission of the mat.
2. Step quickly to the mat, take any instruction from your skip, and check your bowl that it's turned to the direction you have chosen to bowl.
3. Visualize the line that you must take to deliver the bowl to it's intended destination. Pick a spot along that straight line (before the natural bias of the bowl will turn it) and aim at that spot.
4. Have your feet parallel to the line of travel.
[Next: Features of Bowl Delivery]
5. Stay on the mat until your bowl comes to a stop. Use this time to think about adjustments to your aim and your speed or, if successful, to fix in your mind exactly what you did.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Getting Started
Do you have any questions about the club or the game? Or comments about what's happening on the green. Don't hide your concerns or queries, get involved.
Presently, I and other long time players are concerned with how to get new players into the tournaments. It is certainly another level of play and one in which a lot can be learned about all aspects about the game - including the exciting part that strategy plays and can only be used when you can place the bowl close to where you want it. Anyway -- what can be done to make the tournaments more attractive to new players? Anyone?
Presently, I and other long time players are concerned with how to get new players into the tournaments. It is certainly another level of play and one in which a lot can be learned about all aspects about the game - including the exciting part that strategy plays and can only be used when you can place the bowl close to where you want it. Anyway -- what can be done to make the tournaments more attractive to new players? Anyone?
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