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.
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I want to emphasize that I notice many new bowlers do not watch their bowls complete travel after release. There is a lot that can be learned by observing the line your bowl takes, so that even on mis-delivered bowls information useful for the next delivery can be gleaned. If you watch the better players they are even watching the line of their opponent's bowlsn
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