Tonight we drew with the second team in the league, Huntingdon Red. Was actually a moral victory since we started with just three players and six bowls to their four players and eight bowls. By the time Tony, our reserve and one of the club's best players, arrived we were 0-5 down after four ends. Pretty soon we were ahead and could have slaughtered them, but their skip kept banging in a saving bowl when we were looking like three or four bowls up.
My start wasn't too great... in one of the more humiliating ends I put both bowls in the gully. Having real difficulty finding the length, not helped by a habit of pulling my arm across and delivering the bowl far too narrow. The skip pointed this out and, realising where I was going wrong, I managed to make a big improvement all round. In fact I was bowling up to the jack better than ever.
After the match our skip, who's also the club coach, suggested the bit of high tech kit shown above to correct my follow through, picking the card up with my middle finger in the process to keep a straight arm. Now doing it several times a day. Hope the neighbours don't spot me doing it, otherwise it'll confer their worst fears.
My start wasn't too great... in one of the more humiliating ends I put both bowls in the gully. Having real difficulty finding the length, not helped by a habit of pulling my arm across and delivering the bowl far too narrow. The skip pointed this out and, realising where I was going wrong, I managed to make a big improvement all round. In fact I was bowling up to the jack better than ever.
After the match our skip, who's also the club coach, suggested the bit of high tech kit shown above to correct my follow through, picking the card up with my middle finger in the process to keep a straight arm. Now doing it several times a day. Hope the neighbours don't spot me doing it, otherwise it'll confer their worst fears.
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This picking up the card- is it done while practicing your swing without a bowl? Alternately, how can you pickup the card when your middle finger is on the running surface of the bowl? Sorry for being so daft. I am just a novice Canadian bowler.
ReplyDeleteHi Clarke... the practise swing is done without any bowl in your hand. Swinging your arm along the line of delivery and keeping your eyes on an imaginary aiming point, if you keep your arm straight you'll pick up the card with your extended middle finger.
DeleteSorry for not making this clearer. Thanks, John