Thursday, March 24, 2016

Great Coach's Data & Facts

On the Internet a lot of information and Coaching (or Blogging) information can be found. As I looked back through the Canadian Coaches of the past years, I find  a Coach Consultant which was engaged in 2012   by Canada's National Bowls Organization, and even has his own Coaching Consultant website. In searching some of the material from his web site, www.lachlantighebowls.com/ I find data and percentage statistics from four years of evaluating the performances by leads and skips. Example is the Feb 22th notes of the "Expectations of Lead" and data from 4 years which show detail demands on leads have only an expectation of shots success of less than 5 percent, however for demands of results within a mat length of the placement, there is a 38 percent success rate.

Coach Lachlan Tighe

 Lachlan Tighe, from Australia, was engaged by Bowls Canada and later Bowls Ontario in 2011 and 2012  as consultant and today we can find some of his literature on  the Vancouver & District Bowls Association web page under Coaching Tidbits.

Having his own web page at www.lachlantighebowls.com and still writing coaching ideas such as his recent (March 21st) his notes on  " Dealing With Doubt In Bowls" . Until recently , when he retired, Lachlan was a contributing column writer for Henselite bowls webpage.  These  three sites have  a lot of  good coaching  information from this great teacher.

Beside the publication in the photo (right) there is also video material in the form of DVD which can be ordered. 

We that are always learning and reading everything on Bowls that we can find,  can't express enough, our  appreciation to such information and coaching advice. It is one thing to have an opinion on success, but Lachlan has collected data from his many teaching sessions, to prove his statistics.  Worth the look.

Another source has been an e-book written by Rob Judson, an Australian coach.  In a February 2003 e-book  SCRIBD publication " of Lawn Bowl Coaching "  written about in the April 2014 blog "Good SCRIBD e-book on Coaching ".

World Bowls 2016  is finished and those  who had the pleasure of viewing the Streaming Bowls during these last two days have seen great Bowls and bowlers.

Lawnbowls.com and Bowls Australia  had this streaming
to about every country where Lawn Bowls is played, (8,000 viewers, I heard said) and with the exception of several minutes of technical problems; the High Definition was exceptional.  Thank you.

Now we move onto the World Junior Championships in Broadbeach Australia on April 9th to April 15th. I hope we see more bowls online.
 This competition, World Junior Championships, will feature  Singles and Mixed Pairs events for Lawn bowl athletes  between 18 and 25. The next great Online Bowls Adventure

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