This blog is a republish of a December 2012 blog because of a recent interest in this subject.\
December 12, 2012 - During the following weeks I will do several blogs, which willl di-mystic the ability to use previsializing as part of Lawn Bowls Performance. How a Blind individual can Lawn Bowl, How we defind the variables of delivery and control them in our action. And what the instinctive ability of Lawn Bowls is in relation to Previalization. There are extremely good coaches who know and teach this, so my blogs will be food for thought. As an training atlethic what actions you can fine tune to create better visualization and even develop the ability of performing instinctive
This blog could be about concentration, about yoga, about anything else.. but it is going to be about your mind visualizing or you telling your mind what you want by a visual image given to it.
How a Blind individual can Lawn Bowl, How we define the variables of delivery and control them in our action.
Certain sports can offer an insight into Lawn Bowls mental performance. Lawn Bowls requires Bowl delivery weight variables for distance.. but in Archery, the bow sends the arrow with the same force every time and only requires actually aiming to the expected spot. In Petanque, doing a takeout shot requires not only mental ability or concentration ( because the ball going to the jack is travelling through the air and not affected by conditions of the playing surface).
An example from Petanque the yellow ball (jack) is hidden in the video of this jack takeout shot.
Alex was working at shooting a hidden jack (behind a ball from the camera view in the video) While he was walking back to the shooting circle to do the "Hit the jack" shot, I tricked him ( and his mind) by picking up the jack as he walked back to the shooting circle where he would be attempting to shot it and make it fly out-of-bounds.by his shot striking it. On the second attempt, he made the Jack take-out shot and he saw his shot was good and thought he had hit the jack ( if it had been in the original place where it should have been he would have hit it); but now was not there but in my pocket. Because he had made this shot hundreds of times and had seen it fly out from behind the Petanque balls; so many times in the past, he now thought that he had saw it fly out of bounds this time too. He told me where it had gone and we both went there looking for it..After a few minutes of serious looking for it; I showed him the jack was in my hand. What we saw from this was as I explained that a Alex; was that all the time the jack had beens in my hand and that the subconscious mind had substituted a memory to create this false reality of his brain seeing it fly to the left." Why to the left ? The jack is only 1 1/2 inches and was at a distance of 20 feet (7 meters); but the subconscious in seeing the shot actually say that he had hit the jack on the right side and send it flying to the left. (at least this was the image that the subconscious mind gave Alex to fill that missing image which he would have saw if the jack had been there) The subconscious mind was able to detect that if the jack was there it would have been hit on the right side.
December 12, 2012 - During the following weeks I will do several blogs, which willl di-mystic the ability to use previsializing as part of Lawn Bowls Performance. How a Blind individual can Lawn Bowl, How we defind the variables of delivery and control them in our action. And what the instinctive ability of Lawn Bowls is in relation to Previalization. There are extremely good coaches who know and teach this, so my blogs will be food for thought. As an training atlethic what actions you can fine tune to create better visualization and even develop the ability of performing instinctive
This blog could be about concentration, about yoga, about anything else.. but it is going to be about your mind visualizing or you telling your mind what you want by a visual image given to it.
How a Blind individual can Lawn Bowl, How we define the variables of delivery and control them in our action.
Certain sports can offer an insight into Lawn Bowls mental performance. Lawn Bowls requires Bowl delivery weight variables for distance.. but in Archery, the bow sends the arrow with the same force every time and only requires actually aiming to the expected spot. In Petanque, doing a takeout shot requires not only mental ability or concentration ( because the ball going to the jack is travelling through the air and not affected by conditions of the playing surface).
An example from Petanque the yellow ball (jack) is hidden in the video of this jack takeout shot.
Alex was working at shooting a hidden jack (behind a ball from the camera view in the video) While he was walking back to the shooting circle to do the "Hit the jack" shot, I tricked him ( and his mind) by picking up the jack as he walked back to the shooting circle where he would be attempting to shot it and make it fly out-of-bounds.by his shot striking it. On the second attempt, he made the Jack take-out shot and he saw his shot was good and thought he had hit the jack ( if it had been in the original place where it should have been he would have hit it); but now was not there but in my pocket. Because he had made this shot hundreds of times and had seen it fly out from behind the Petanque balls; so many times in the past, he now thought that he had saw it fly out of bounds this time too. He told me where it had gone and we both went there looking for it..After a few minutes of serious looking for it; I showed him the jack was in my hand. What we saw from this was as I explained that a Alex; was that all the time the jack had beens in my hand and that the subconscious mind had substituted a memory to create this false reality of his brain seeing it fly to the left." Why to the left ? The jack is only 1 1/2 inches and was at a distance of 20 feet (7 meters); but the subconscious in seeing the shot actually say that he had hit the jack on the right side and send it flying to the left. (at least this was the image that the subconscious mind gave Alex to fill that missing image which he would have saw if the jack had been there) The subconscious mind was able to detect that if the jack was there it would have been hit on the right side.
As a Archery coach who shoot instinctive, A Petanque player or a Lawn Bowler: all have similar objectives... to get the send object at a specific target. The centre of the archery target,which may be gold paper (archery) a throw through-the-air 20 feet to take out target ball (petanque) or roll 25 meters (80 feet to the jack (Lawn Bowls)
As an archer, I have an instrument which supplies the same energy to the send object (arrow) or as the Petanque player, doing a take out shot, I do not have any objects causing deviation of the thrown ball ( as it is thrown through the air not rolled on greens like in Lawn Bowls). These sports all allow for the individual aspects of the subconscious mind actions to be studied.
Golf is like four time worst than Lawn bowls because there are so many variables. Playing surface (18 different holes) play conditions (weather, soil, crowds) and then individual changes which may easily involved changes in a swing, the club, or some other force _ all giving a different result; And of course "technicial" changes in the sport, from custom material to new types of balls, club heads and may more.. (If I do this.. I previalize that this will happen)
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What give me that experience? If I was a swimmer and asking about body building and certain muscles I would look at health, exercise, muscle building and even scientific advances like material of swim suits.
As a Archery coach who shoot instinctive, or aA Petanque player which moved to Lawn Bowls all these have similar objectives... to get the send object at a specific target. The centre of which may be gold paper (archery) a take out ball (pétanque) or the jack (Lawn Bowls)
As an archer has an instrument which supplies the same energy to the send object (arrow) or the Petanque player has not object causing deviation of his thrown ball (thrown through air not rolled on greens); these sports allow for individual aspects of Lawn bowls to be studied.
Then, as mention in the video of Tiger Wood on Previalization in Golf where so many variables are involved that to change a swing, a club, a force will cause a different result; we become aware of visualization having a creative nature.. (If I do this.. I previalize that this will happen)
What is previalization... Think WRONG BIAS What do you see in your mind. You have a post vialization of something you have experience. You can actually remember the bowl going the wrong way. Do your remember all of it...from release to finish ? Do you have a feeling of disappointment at the time you realized that the bowl was on a "Wrong Bais".
You have experienced post visualization (the bowl rolling) Post emotional recall your "Oh I hate that" feeling. and you know all the tools (mind tools) are there to use in previsualization.
First, know your sport enough to define the variables. My experience with Archery which I do instinctive defines the variables which affect the arrow and those controls which are needed to preform consistancely. Why archery in relation to bowls?
A Lawn bowl athelic must get away from the shooting to a spot image of Lawn Bowls. One can imagine the jack as the centre of a curling type playing surface wich various distance outward. Actually, having watched Bowls australia use of a Ring overlay of circles to show individual bowls position and actual shot.
Bowls atheatic like Ryan Bester, seem to bowl extremely quick from the time they arrive on the mat until final delivery are probably more instinctive than most.
However, even the learning Lawn Bowler from the first bowl they view rolling up the green visualizes what their bowl is going to do, They know it will turn inward from the outward side of the green.
Wrong Bias... What do you see? What do you feel ? The two words bring up a mind image of your bowl not turning into the jack but away from your expected path. Actually, you have just experienced a previsialized adjustment. You remember being on the mat, doing a delivery and then feeling disappointed that the bowl had a wrong bias and rolled away from what you previalized it would do.
What do you feel with the image and words Wrong Bias? Like hatred or love, feelings you identify; with the thought and image of the bowl rolling the wrong bias, you have an emotional feeling.. probably memories of disappointment. Maybe, your most serious Wrong Bias mistake memory.but also a emotional feeling is felt.
You have experience previsialization. Post Previsialization. With an mind eye image, emotions and even reactions. (some people say OMG)
Instinctive. what is that... Well, a baseball player in the outfield does not calculate the energy needed to throw the bowl to home plate. He simply swings the arm back and lets fly the baseball and know it will arrive. An rock throwing primative man did the same.. He did not think of the running game he expected to hit for his meal, he simple threw his object and saw it hit the running game.
Instinctive is the ability to allow the previsialized image of one action to become a reality. That hunter thought where he must hit the running game. He felt the weight of the stone being thrown, He had thrown many times before and knew he had to aim a bit in front of the running object in order to have the stone arrive at the same time and place.
All of these things were left for the mind to remember, calculate and execute thus creating an instinctive image. (Instinctive because it was not delayed by the individual thinking of various pass expereience, although part of the memories included the previous misses)
Over the next 5 or 6 blogs I will explain how to exercise your mind's eye to take control of action, How visualization was part of that instinctive ability development. And maybe even instruct how to have the mind sort out bad previsualization image.
How nice it would be if we could make a bowl chute which placed beside the mat and pointed at a direction and with a certain incline to give a certain distance to your bowl. Actually archery allows for that sort of action because the bow will send the arrow the same distance every time... 120 times (in a 1200 FITA). The Bow will delivery the same energy every arrow released (correctly) and so it is just a matter of aiming.. If in bowls , would it not be great to have such a constant weight of delivery every bowl and just need to aim the bowl?
On the other hand, some sports have so many variables, Golf for example that this previsialization can become a creative action. Tiger Wood talks about this is his video at >>>>>>>>>>> but what he means is if he thinks of changing a variable what image of results are previalized. Of course, he must perform the action perfect to get the result previalization. And of course, to release the mind from our consious control to allow the mind to do all its things to create the results that follow the previalization. AA out of body experience of absence or amaze of the minds ability and our ability.
