The previous Blog mention the Video of Tigar Wood on Youtube.com "Sport Psychology - Want to Visualize like Tiger " and I will reference it from Blog to Blog.
Have you seen this scenero: Bowl was rolled up the green and bowler returning to the mat for the delivery the next bowl, calls up the green to asks the marker or skip "How much short am I ?" This often heard question can defines the player as being "technical orientated" in their bowls development. If the bowler remains here in this stage of development he is stuck without opportunity of improvement. Yes, he will get better in his delivery or game strategy but up to a point. (blocked from advancing).
When we start our sport a good technique is necessary. The photo left from Bowls Australia Video where a great teaching of technique is shown but in "previsualization" we pu all the importance on letting the mind and body do our deliveery. Best said in the video where Tiger Wood's coach says "Letting the performance happen rather than thinking or helping the performance to happen"
When teaching a new bowler to add on distance various techniques are suggested. a wrist flick, maybe a larger step, some even try with a longer swing or other types body movement; all will give the extra footage that is needed. As with any sport, we all begin by techniques which develop a great performance. But once we have master the techniques we are like the pre-schooler who has stop thinking about how to drive the bicycle and just enjoy the ride. This is where visualization and mind make our sport really a joy.
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You think, "ok just a little more" and delivery the bowl without thinking how you have done that extra and discovers that some how the extra was added. This is INSTINCTIVE. .After you have rolled so many bowls over the years you don't think any more like a new bowler with "ok a longer step". The mind know how to do it.. you just tell it what you want. Previsulation is a bit more more than that. ( Can you believe that you will concentration to the point of not thinking at all)
Now to understand Previsualization; imagine you are doing a "add-on practice". The objective is to roll a bowl, then the next 18 inches further and then the 3rd another 18 inches further. (a skill exercise for adding on a foot or more)
If you throw the first one as a natural distance you have automaticly began to direct your practice toward technique you learned because you know how to build a foot onto your natural roll distance. That is ok.. except the problem is you have choosen the starting distance.
When teaching a new bowler to add on distance various techniques are suggested. a wrist flick, maybe a larger step, some even try with a longer swing or other types body movement; all will give the extra footage that is needed. As with any sport, we all begin by techniques which develop a great performance. But once we have master the techniques we are like the pre-schooler who has stop thinking about how to drive the bicycle and just enjoy the ride. This is where visualization and mind make our sport really a joy.
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You think, "ok just a little more" and delivery the bowl without thinking how you have done that extra and discovers that some how the extra was added. This is INSTINCTIVE. .After you have rolled so many bowls over the years you don't think any more like a new bowler with "ok a longer step". The mind know how to do it.. you just tell it what you want. Previsulation is a bit more more than that. ( Can you believe that you will concentration to the point of not thinking at all)
Now to understand Previsualization; imagine you are doing a "add-on practice". The objective is to roll a bowl, then the next 18 inches further and then the 3rd another 18 inches further. (a skill exercise for adding on a foot or more)
If you throw the first one as a natural distance you have automaticly began to direct your practice toward technique you learned because you know how to build a foot onto your natural roll distance. That is ok.. except the problem is you have choosen the starting distance.
Now, lets try something a bit more difficult; with only a distance in your mind, Thinking "26 meters" or a random distance; now instinctively you go and roll the bowls like you want. them to another distance until you finish this practice.. Your body knows and will adjust each shot and if you miss you will analysis your mistake and what you should have done.(Hopefully, you will correct your communication with your mind).
But this exercise has many parts all which require Think.. Think.. and more thinking. For example your pre-mat routine of how to get to that distance is telling your subconscious what you want. You may even remember a trick how you do it. But at one point you stop thinking, and just tell yourself (your mind) what to do and just let the body do the shot. Or should say " Just let the mind do the shot"
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When thinking all the time, there is so much baggage in your thoughts and you only fight with your unconscious mind on what you want to be done. Think of your conscious mind as you the boss in the office. Your body and unconscious mind want to do the job but your thinking and control is like a boss which come back to watch you do the job. You can hear him saying "No not that way... do this or do that." eventually you have not idea what you should do. Like wise your body and unconscious mind is lost
Previsualization is the instruction to the unconscious mind and then letting it do its work, and made up of two parts.. "One seeing the shot" and then "Doing the shot." But the mind doing the shot without your constant control of each movement. Sort of the Boss going away and letting the person do the job the way they know how to do it.
Previsualization is seen everyday in the sport baseball when a outfielder throws the bowl to the 2nd baseman or short stop. He never thinks I got to take two steps and bring my arm back a long way.. He simply see that he is throwing the ball and at the same time or near it has been let fly. Most important, he did not think ..now I will throw the ball. He simply WANTED it and did it. In some sports like Basketball it can be so used in practice that the athletics do mental baskets for a set time before starting their practice.
A practice exercise to do on the green and understand the difference between Instinctive and Previsualization is to try this the next time you are on the green..
Instinctive.. Roll the bowls so they arrive in the 18 inches apart. do it up and back
Previsualization Before rolling the bowl see the bowl rolling in your mind.. see its bias ..even see it falling over on the spot where you want it.. maybe do 1, 2, 3 where 3 is the actual delivery of the bowl and 1 and 2 are the eyes following the imaginary bowl up the green..
Actually, Karan Murphy the Australian Gold Medal World Bowls 2012 winner does a sort of practice swing in her delivery.You can not know what she is thinking but you will see her do two or three arm swings before her delivery.. is she visually seeing her intended bowl roll??
Feel the difference. (by the way this is not previsualization yet) it is just the visual training exercise for it)
Quickly... and to yet come.in thes blogs.. Previsualization is combined with concentration..The ability to remove the conscious thoughts of helping the bowl and letting the unconscious mind simple do what it knows.
Webster Dictionary defines Conscious as "With a degree of controlled thought" and "marked by thought" means we are consciously talking our bowl , in our mind , to their position. we are thinking the changes that we need to do to have our bowl performed. Yes we need to use our knowledge of changing weight techniques, or correction of faults but once we have made the changes we send the job to be done to the unconscious mind and let it happen.
. In the video of Tiger Wood the important statement of " Letting the performance happen rather than thinking or helping the performance to happen" means removing the Conscious control..
When thinking all the time, there is so much baggage in your thoughts and you only fight with your unconscious mind on what you want to be done. Think of your conscious mind as you the boss in the office. Your body and unconscious mind want to do the job but your thinking and control is like a boss which come back to watch you do the job. You can hear him saying "No not that way... do this or do that." eventually you have not idea what you should do. Like wise your body and unconscious mind is lost
Previsualization is the instruction to the unconscious mind and then letting it do its work, and made up of two parts.. "One seeing the shot" and then "Doing the shot." But the mind doing the shot without your constant control of each movement. Sort of the Boss going away and letting the person do the job the way they know how to do it.
Previsualization is seen everyday in the sport baseball when a outfielder throws the bowl to the 2nd baseman or short stop. He never thinks I got to take two steps and bring my arm back a long way.. He simply see that he is throwing the ball and at the same time or near it has been let fly. Most important, he did not think ..now I will throw the ball. He simply WANTED it and did it. In some sports like Basketball it can be so used in practice that the athletics do mental baskets for a set time before starting their practice.
A practice exercise to do on the green and understand the difference between Instinctive and Previsualization is to try this the next time you are on the green..
Instinctive.. Roll the bowls so they arrive in the 18 inches apart. do it up and back
Previsualization Before rolling the bowl see the bowl rolling in your mind.. see its bias ..even see it falling over on the spot where you want it.. maybe do 1, 2, 3 where 3 is the actual delivery of the bowl and 1 and 2 are the eyes following the imaginary bowl up the green..
Actually, Karan Murphy the Australian Gold Medal World Bowls 2012 winner does a sort of practice swing in her delivery.You can not know what she is thinking but you will see her do two or three arm swings before her delivery.. is she visually seeing her intended bowl roll??
Feel the difference. (by the way this is not previsualization yet) it is just the visual training exercise for it)
Quickly... and to yet come.in thes blogs.. Previsualization is combined with concentration..The ability to remove the conscious thoughts of helping the bowl and letting the unconscious mind simple do what it knows.
Webster Dictionary defines Conscious as "With a degree of controlled thought" and "marked by thought" means we are consciously talking our bowl , in our mind , to their position. we are thinking the changes that we need to do to have our bowl performed. Yes we need to use our knowledge of changing weight techniques, or correction of faults but once we have made the changes we send the job to be done to the unconscious mind and let it happen.
. In the video of Tiger Wood the important statement of " Letting the performance happen rather than thinking or helping the performance to happen" means removing the Conscious control..
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