"Welcome Back " I hear the voice of a regular Blog Follower. At the age of 70 plus I have been finding health demanding and have not Blogged much this past 6 months. I'M BACK
The Blog Stats shown here is the basic readership.. US, Canada, Australia, England, S Africa have been the near 150 twitter readers.
Of the 11,500 views over the live of this blog most have been toward articles on new tricks to measure "Which Bowl is Shot" or the use of your Subconscious abilities during game play.
This viewer stats of a period of non-new blogs shows the regulars whom continue to return to view old blogs and the countries from which these viewers have come.
The following month or two of blogs (coming) will be about game analysis and errors which can be learned from viewing YouTube recorded videos. These players are the best in the world and certainly not to be criticize. My goal will be to show the type of errors which do occur and what a interested bowler enthusiast can learn from watching these games. During the next three or four blogs I will base discussion and blogs on the Hong Kong Classic Video from which the below photo is taken..
This photo is a screen capture from the Woman's finals game video of the 2015 Hong Kong International Classic Women's Pairs with the Australian Woman's Pair of Karen Murphy (Skip) / Kristina Krstic against the Hong Kong Youth Team of Vivian Yip (Skip) / Amy Choi .
In the photo Kristina is indicating to skip Karen Murphy the expected delivery of the last bowl of the first end of play on November 15 2015 on outdoor greens in Hong Kong (probably at the Kowloon Bowling Green Club which was used by HKLBA (Bowls Association) as office between 1961 to 1976. (Some blogs will have more detail as researched others (like this one) has little.
The big error in this above photo is the media inserted score The black box indicate the holding points, The White is the final score and the small dot is which team is playing or control of the head.
It appears that the media responsible for score indicator update, to understand the game during play, which they do not because of the incorrect indication the score is 2 - 0 for Hong Kong. The actual field scorecard board, behind Vivian and Amy. show the correct score. of 0 - 0.
How did this mistake happen ?? Well, just before this moment (in the video) the last bowl of skip Vivian Yip was played backhand and it raised the frontal bowl of Karen Murphy, into the head, destroying the HKYT two point lead. It appears that the video insertion scorecard team had not been educated on how to mark the score and is doing it bowl per bowl. like baseball run per run.
However, we know the score is only after the last bowl is played. The small dot at the end of the HKYT line shows as per the media indicator, that the Youth team are on the mat.. which is not true.. so it is not just a score error but also a delay in the update of the score indicator..
The point and lesson to be learned here.. If you want to educate the public about your sport and especially during a major championship then allocate the resources. At local clubs a member of the club can circulate among the visitors and explain the sign language of the game players and also how the scorecard are marked. Also, if the Media is involved, realize that they may not be knowledgeable of the game and allocate a media rep who can help them understand and correct these errors. This is our sport and these are the unique opportunities to promote it. Invest time and people for a good result. (maybe will get new members or a good review of the club)
The next three blogs will discuss briefly Team communication, lead's head read, missed marked Bowl and weather demands on Bowls. Hope you enjoy and understand in no way do I consider myself in any way able to criticize these great bowlers. Only you as a video view and reader can learn by watching the best. And YouTube has a lot of videos. Almost 50 videos of the 2016 Indoor Potter Championships with the very best in the world.
Some of my photos used in my blog will be from screen captures of the YouTube video mention above although a full page of photo are available at Mike Worth's Picasa Web gallery
The Blog Stats shown here is the basic readership.. US, Canada, Australia, England, S Africa have been the near 150 twitter readers.
 |
| February 26 Blog Stats and Readership |
Of the 11,500 views over the live of this blog most have been toward articles on new tricks to measure "Which Bowl is Shot" or the use of your Subconscious abilities during game play.
This viewer stats of a period of non-new blogs shows the regulars whom continue to return to view old blogs and the countries from which these viewers have come.
The following month or two of blogs (coming) will be about game analysis and errors which can be learned from viewing YouTube recorded videos. These players are the best in the world and certainly not to be criticize. My goal will be to show the type of errors which do occur and what a interested bowler enthusiast can learn from watching these games. During the next three or four blogs I will base discussion and blogs on the Hong Kong Classic Video from which the below photo is taken..
In the photo Kristina is indicating to skip Karen Murphy the expected delivery of the last bowl of the first end of play on November 15 2015 on outdoor greens in Hong Kong (probably at the Kowloon Bowling Green Club which was used by HKLBA (Bowls Association) as office between 1961 to 1976. (Some blogs will have more detail as researched others (like this one) has little.
The big error in this above photo is the media inserted score The black box indicate the holding points, The White is the final score and the small dot is which team is playing or control of the head.
It appears that the media responsible for score indicator update, to understand the game during play, which they do not because of the incorrect indication the score is 2 - 0 for Hong Kong. The actual field scorecard board, behind Vivian and Amy. show the correct score. of 0 - 0.
How did this mistake happen ?? Well, just before this moment (in the video) the last bowl of skip Vivian Yip was played backhand and it raised the frontal bowl of Karen Murphy, into the head, destroying the HKYT two point lead. It appears that the video insertion scorecard team had not been educated on how to mark the score and is doing it bowl per bowl. like baseball run per run.
However, we know the score is only after the last bowl is played. The small dot at the end of the HKYT line shows as per the media indicator, that the Youth team are on the mat.. which is not true.. so it is not just a score error but also a delay in the update of the score indicator..
The point and lesson to be learned here.. If you want to educate the public about your sport and especially during a major championship then allocate the resources. At local clubs a member of the club can circulate among the visitors and explain the sign language of the game players and also how the scorecard are marked. Also, if the Media is involved, realize that they may not be knowledgeable of the game and allocate a media rep who can help them understand and correct these errors. This is our sport and these are the unique opportunities to promote it. Invest time and people for a good result. (maybe will get new members or a good review of the club)
The next three blogs will discuss briefly Team communication, lead's head read, missed marked Bowl and weather demands on Bowls. Hope you enjoy and understand in no way do I consider myself in any way able to criticize these great bowlers. Only you as a video view and reader can learn by watching the best. And YouTube has a lot of videos. Almost 50 videos of the 2016 Indoor Potter Championships with the very best in the world.
Some of my photos used in my blog will be from screen captures of the YouTube video mention above although a full page of photo are available at Mike Worth's Picasa Web gallery
Glad to hear that your health is improved. I really learn from your articles so I'm glad you're back blogging. You will see that I'm counted as being from Portugal but I'm really just another Canuck avoiding the winter weather and of course bowling on the great greens here.
ReplyDeleteTy Clarke. My selection of viewers are mostly competition lawn bowlers who have a passion for ideas and new method. Part of the joy of sharing information is comments (like yours)being able to view stats b/c even if nothing is written the stats show who and where the viewers visited from.
ReplyDelete