Within the hour the 2013 Canadian Lawn Bowl Nationals will start and run until Saturday (24th August) with sunny weather all week.
Following the Opening Ceremonies the game will start following a "Trail End". (Rolling two bowls each player up and back down the rink you will be playing)
What do you do with your "Trail Ends"? The Trail end so often seem to be a contest of rolling to the jack and worst of all, I have seen skips indicating the choose of Green and Draw side.
In "Fundamentals of LAWN BOWLS" by Albert Newton written over 50 years ago in Australia, says "Most bowlers are under the impression that the bowl starts to turn about 2/3 of the Distance between the mat and the jack. This is wrong. If a bowl is delivered on an even keel for a draw, it will start to turn immediately...... depending upon the speed of the Green played upon."
So "Trail ends" are to know the SPEED of the Greens and the BIAS of your bowl because as Mr. Newton says "on heavy greens, because of the speed at which the bowl is delivered, the shoulder of the curve is much closer to the jack than on fast greens"
Yes, the Trail ends are for the bowler to know their Speed of Green and Bias caused by such a speed. So it is an individual thing and the Skip should be reading the information and not dictating how a bowler does his trail end.
A Team should have a plan for the trail end which help to read the Natural distance (blog coming) of the team and opponent and cover the complete length of the Rink (blog coming) All with the two bowls each direction.
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What do you do with your "Trail Ends"? The Trail end so often seem to be a contest of rolling to the jack and worst of all, I have seen skips indicating the choose of Green and Draw side.
In "Fundamentals of LAWN BOWLS" by Albert Newton written over 50 years ago in Australia, says "Most bowlers are under the impression that the bowl starts to turn about 2/3 of the Distance between the mat and the jack. This is wrong. If a bowl is delivered on an even keel for a draw, it will start to turn immediately...... depending upon the speed of the Green played upon."
So "Trail ends" are to know the SPEED of the Greens and the BIAS of your bowl because as Mr. Newton says "on heavy greens, because of the speed at which the bowl is delivered, the shoulder of the curve is much closer to the jack than on fast greens"
Yes, the Trail ends are for the bowler to know their Speed of Green and Bias caused by such a speed. So it is an individual thing and the Skip should be reading the information and not dictating how a bowler does his trail end.
A Team should have a plan for the trail end which help to read the Natural distance (blog coming) of the team and opponent and cover the complete length of the Rink (blog coming) All with the two bowls each direction.
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