Lawn Bowls "Using the Head": New Blogs 2019

Many of my blogs have been on three basic topics.

1- How a reader can improve their Bowls delivery and overall performance

Blog Stats of Feb 9th 2019

2. The need for bowler participation in the local club and the development of their Sport and

3. The various aspects of lawn bowls which is of danger to our sport as it charges and destroys our sport.

Although getting on in age (74) I will attempt to do these next few months on various topics such as Coaching and maybe link some of the blogs here from previous years together.

From the Blog Stats (Photo left) I see there has been a good blog readership although I have not done any new blogs for over 6 to 8 months. Most of these stats are from new readers although sometimes previous readers return to re-visit a blog they liked.

Looking at the stats of the blogs and what it show, after more than 6 months without any new blogs.. There has always been an "Readership average " of 30 blogs/read per day. As per the world map, these readers comes from several countries, However, from the stats one can see that there are some interesting changes in Lawn Bowls development. Because my new readers are non-English countries. it means that there new readers are from Brazil, India and Spain The darkness of the Green (on the map) indicates the volume of reader from that country over the last week.(Of course Australia has always been a strong as has been Canada and USA)

As I write this in February 2019, the Northern Hemisphere Lawn Bowls is slow as we are waiting for spring. Some countries like England, USA have indoor bowls but most Lawn Bowls Clubs are now covered with snow and ice.. However, Australia and South Africa are now in their summer season and lawn bowls very active.

The topic I will tackle this month ( February 2019) will be aspects of Club coaching and why you the reader should get involved in your local Club. Not to suggest that you taking up a coaching position but all club members should become a participant in one of the many Club activities and committees.

One of these committees is the Greens Committee which need volunteers to prepare

Damage to Green caused by footwear

the greens for club games.
Often these volunteers become involved in the annual greens maintenance and closure. In the blog "Greens Committee 1" we see suggestions of what members can do to help the club save money on Greens Maintenance.

Interesting part of this blog is photos of green damage (photo right) done by squirrels who got a smell of food (apples nuts) from footwear which a member had wore throughout the day and then came and wore the same footwear onto the green.

Every serious Lawn Bowler should have a special set of footwear which is only use on the green and stored in the clubhouse locker.

Although my blogs are sometime rather long, I try to cover all the various aspects of Lawn Bowls. In the blog "Greens Committee 2) I show photos of Clubs which have been closed and lost their greens to parking lots or other sports. All clubs are in danger of such action unless they are privately owned.

With club membership being evaluated and the cost of land, sometimes we find the club being closed and the land being developed into a housing complex and the Lawn Bowls green turned into a great community Garden.