Using the Head applies to Coaches find ways to teach BOWLS to new members. These new members can be recruited from other sports and if you can then compare their sports to their learning of Bowls it will an easily sell. Yes some seniors find the cost of Golf high and will consider trying Bowls for a summer. A good selling point is that our Greens are of a better (faster) quality than most Golf course putting Greens..
A lot of sports have to do with rolled an object to a central location. The history of Bowls tell us that our sport was introduced in Egyptian times with the rolling (then a round stone) to certain distances.
In GOLF this central point is a small hole, and the distance it must be send to the hole can be several hundred yards (or meters) away from the departure place. Add that with 18 various types of Greens or receiving area and it is a very difficult game. Photo from yahoo.com (IndoorOutdoorPuttinggreen.com)
In golf, if you have the opportunity to putt across a slope green, you will learn, like in Bowls, that if your line is correct and your weight is correct the ball (bowl) will arrive in the hole (head). In the same way the line of stopped balls (bowls) which were send with different weight, appear in a straight line through the Cup (golf hole, or jack in bowls).
In this blog, the coach ability to show Bowls principle by method of a sloped surface (Golfer experience on slopped greens) will teach how the line of delivery, when the same, gives different location of the ball (bowls) after missing because of too much or not enough roll (different force means less distance). Also since only in Bowls, of all the similar sports, we find a "Bias on the Bowl", this method of showing Bias without Bowls, becomes a easy method to show and teach Bias.
In teaching Bias to new students it can be a convenience to use a jack or two instead of a Bowl with a bias. If we build a short mat surface (6 or 12 feet long) it can allow for in the clubhouse teaching and the slope can be raised on one side by 1 inch or so to show Bias. Also, beside using a jack, we can use a normal ball, ( Golf or Baseball) and show that how it is stopping in line for different force of delivery. Also, the different Balls and different slope (putting a 1/2 higher) will show the different lines of sending the ball..When the same slope is used and we use of a golf ball , tennis ball and baseball, we can show how the weight of different size bowls (00 and 5)means different distances. Teaching that one can not watch the opponents bowls and expect their own bowls to perform the same.. Carpet type also shows green speed and even with a spray of water (wet carpet) and how it changes the bowls.
By sitting the table down flat on the floor and using the indoor bowls balls it is also possible to show the bowl bias and explain it clearly after this bias table has been used on non-bias balls like jack, tennis or baseball.
After showing Bias with the slope area and Showing the Bowls Bias on a flat surface, a coach can find on Youtube.com great videos to show the various bias of bowls made by the same manufacters. Drake's bowls video is a great sample (photo left)
In Curling the central object is fixed rings , Much like a archery target painted on the ice surface,at a fixed distance from the hack (departure Point). This would make it easier as learning weight is most important and the finest of that delivery weight can be like bowls. A little too much delivery weight and the result will be quite a bit of a miss. (short shot or through the house)
In Petanque, like Bowls, the departure point (circle in petanque, mat in Bowls) can be changed as also the total distance to the Jack; is within a set of distances. Unlike bowls, which has a ditch at the end of the rink; in petanque if the jack does not go out of bounds it can extremely long to get a good point. This distance aspect of Petanque can be similar to Crown Greens play.
In the following Blogs will be suggestions from these other sports. Curling (in Canada during the winter) Petanque (in French countries) Bocci and other sports. Enjoy
In GOLF this central point is a small hole, and the distance it must be send to the hole can be several hundred yards (or meters) away from the departure place. Add that with 18 various types of Greens or receiving area and it is a very difficult game. Photo from yahoo.com (IndoorOutdoorPuttinggreen.com)
In golf, if you have the opportunity to putt across a slope green, you will learn, like in Bowls, that if your line is correct and your weight is correct the ball (bowl) will arrive in the hole (head). In the same way the line of stopped balls (bowls) which were send with different weight, appear in a straight line through the Cup (golf hole, or jack in bowls).
In this blog, the coach ability to show Bowls principle by method of a sloped surface (Golfer experience on slopped greens) will teach how the line of delivery, when the same, gives different location of the ball (bowls) after missing because of too much or not enough roll (different force means less distance). Also since only in Bowls, of all the similar sports, we find a "Bias on the Bowl", this method of showing Bias without Bowls, becomes a easy method to show and teach Bias.
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By sitting the table down flat on the floor and using the indoor bowls balls it is also possible to show the bowl bias and explain it clearly after this bias table has been used on non-bias balls like jack, tennis or baseball.
In Curling the central object is fixed rings , Much like a archery target painted on the ice surface,at a fixed distance from the hack (departure Point). This would make it easier as learning weight is most important and the finest of that delivery weight can be like bowls. A little too much delivery weight and the result will be quite a bit of a miss. (short shot or through the house)
In Petanque, like Bowls, the departure point (circle in petanque, mat in Bowls) can be changed as also the total distance to the Jack; is within a set of distances. Unlike bowls, which has a ditch at the end of the rink; in petanque if the jack does not go out of bounds it can extremely long to get a good point. This distance aspect of Petanque can be similar to Crown Greens play.
In the following Blogs will be suggestions from these other sports. Curling (in Canada during the winter) Petanque (in French countries) Bocci and other sports. Enjoy
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