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Great to hear!

We are glad to hear you are finding success with the tips!

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Hi Richard -- We might not be understanding the question completely. While the cradle grip isn't our recommended grip, it shouldn't cause any issues with turning your wrist unless you have something specific you are doing with your delivery. It's hard to understand your issue without visuals. It seems like the issue is that in order to straighten your arm to delivery it's the adjustment of rolling your hand upright and the forearm that's the stressor. If it is causing a lot of stress and you are unable to deliver a bowl with a straight and upright arm/palm you may need to find an adjustment where you adjust the grip to hold the bowl differently, but that would also bring in a whole host of other issues and things you need to think about. It's recommended you try the grip we have in our video so you aren't using a palm or claw grip, but something a little more natural and see if that eases the issue.

@@CanadianBowler If you look at CZcams bowling" tips from David Bryan"t @ 7 mins 20 seconds, he too suggests how hard it is to deliver the bowl with a straight arm. This will make clear my question, sorry if I was not clear. While I prefer the Claw grip, the cradle does allow a bigger bowl and is used by many of the top World Bowlers like Nick Brett. Thanks for helping me with such informative videos.

It's definitely worth trying to follow the process you see in this video and choose some bolder colours that suit your personality and make the bowl look the way you want it to -- get creative and have some fun with it!

Hi Janet, it seems like you have a series of obstacles that you are trying to overcome. Have you considered looking at a bowling aid like a bowls arm to help remove some of those obstacles and see if that really helps you enjoy the game more? They do also make sizes down to quadruple zero in many makes and models. Might be worth looking at a smaller bowl (if possible) and see if that helps you hold on and release it better. The size of the bowl doesn't matter for the game itself, it's all about finding the right bowl size for you.

Probably best to let one side dry before flipping to another side to avoid the wet paint touching other things. Also doing multiple colours on one side shouldn't be an issue if you work from the centre outward and really make sure you clean and clear the excess paint before moving on.

Great advice and thank you for the comment!

Hi Richard, we've answered similar questions in other videos, please see the replies in the release video and gold ticket video. Thank you for all your questions.

We don't recommend using a cradle grip for bowls. It offers too many issues with trying to get the bowl away clean and smooth. The grip we note in our grip video is a more natural grip and doesn't sit in the palm of your hand.

100% -- the mat can be a great tool to give you some advantages and help your game if you can understand how to use it correctly.

While we agree that the natural walking step is ideal and what we often teach through this channel, the shooter stance has been viable for a number of people and helped with their balance and stability. Use what works and always be careful not to do anything that could cause injury.

Well said! It's something a lot of people don't appreciate when playing. That first bowl pressure can change everything!

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You won't be able to paint the whole bowl if you plan on playing with it. We've only seen a full painted bowl that is used purely for decoration. Usually only paint is for the decorative engraved areas on either side of the bowl. Applying anything to the running surface could affect the way a bowl rolls/reacts.

@@CanadianBowler Thank you

Absolutely -- this video was to refresh an entire collection of bowls at one bowls club. If you are doing it personally, you only need a couple of your favourite colours and you are set!

Great comment! It really comes down to what suits you and works best.

Hi @nigelseviour4281 -- this really is a tough subject on any sport. How do you recover from a loss, especially a big or devastating loss to rally the next game or get back on track for a series of games. It's a big topic, but briefly it comes down to having and developing mental tools to deal with the negative feelings from a loss, getting to the learning part of what happened and how can you avoid that moving forward and finally focusing on the positive in your game and getting back to what makes you or your team successful. Some of the tools i'm referring to: Debrief - either solo or with the team -- what went well, what didn't and what are we going to do to improve for the next. (being honest, open and willing to take on criticism is key) Gameplan - do you have one? Is it followed? Is it flawed? -- game plans are the foundation that you can fall back to when things go off the rails. Routines - do you have routines to get yourself prepped for the game, after a game, between games? Sometimes it's quiet reflection and music, sometimes it's going for a walk -- whatever gives you time to reset and get pumped for the game coming up -- food, water, etc. all are part of it. Hope that helps a little bit and we hope to put some videos together for these topics on the future.

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Awesome! We really hope this helps your game.

You are welcome! Hopefully these suggestions help.

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There is always something every bowler can work on. Hope it helps!

Really great suggestions! We will work on some more visual coaching videos in the future. Thank you for the comment.

Typically yes -- the video will show one angle and usually a single side of delivery. This would mean you'd want to adjust if you are bowling the other hand. You want your feet lined up to the target you are rolling towards. Then line the rest of your body on that same line.

Issues like this are hard to work through, especially on your own. Before we get into any tips on what you can do for correcting it my suggestion is to try and have someone at your club or even a coach video you delivering a series of bowls on both forehand and backhand -- do a few to a shorter distance and then some to a full length. Take a look and see if you can notice any differences in the two deliveries and if either are more/less accurate and smooth than the other. Our suggestion is to work on two items. Make sure you are getting a clean and smooth release. It can be difficult -- any drop or bounce does take off momentum and it can alter your line if it jumps or wobbles as a result. The larger the drop of loft, the worse the effect on the weight and line. Work on generating and maintaining momentum. Sometimes we can really hinder our flow and delivery by how we step, move, release and follow-through. Make sure you aren't putting any stops in that whole process and that the energy you are putting in at the beginning and your body weight are all carrying through to the release and the bowl. Don't be afraid to walk off the mat as it may help you keep that fluid motion moving in the right direction. Sometimes we stop our movement and rely on all arm power or other means to get the bowl moving. Get everything in sync and it should help generate that power for long ends you have been looking for. Hope this helps.

@@CanadianBowler Many thanks for such a comprehensive response which gives me plenty of food forethought and some very welcome specifics to work on. Getting everything in sync and using body weight and forward momentum sound like good starting points but thanks again!

Never mind :) My balls don't have bias. (tic) In any event, I'm adapting to bocce where you gave me some great ideas. Similar concepts.

Lawn Bowls are "biased" -- meaning they are not complete sphere's and are shaped so there are two sides to a bowl -- one is flatter and the other is more rounded. The idea is that as a bowl slows down it tilts to the rounded side and curls as a result towards that side. So you can roll to curl left or curl right. In my examples the camera is typically on one side so you always see me roll my right side with it curling left. You really do nothing to influence the turn, you roll straight towards an intended target and allow the bowl to curl naturally and while a natural grass surface does play a part (uneven grass, lumpiness, etc.) on a true flat surface the bowl does all the work.

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Thank you for the comment and thoughts on the video. We are sorry you didn't enjoy it and appreciate your review of it. Also thank you for catching the mistake in title and thumbnail!

Glad it helped! Hopefully it keeps getting better.

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@robertTrautwein not wrong as your bowl does need more width in line the farther down the green you go, but the degree to how it happens does depends on a number of things - the surface you are playing on and all the other environmental factors happening. A fast and true surface you will note that a minor change in line will make a significant difference in where it finally lands (ex. adjust an few in release point and it's couple feet on the final draw line). Some surfaces will have major differences due to the inconsistency of the surface short to medium to long (ex. lush green grass to burnt out patch to perfectly manicured grass).

@robertTrautwein When you first lay them down it's a "educated guess" based on green, speeds and your bowls. We always suggest doing this during your warm up as you'll get an idea of how the green is running. You make adjustments on the first couple runs to line them up properly and for the shot you are trying to understand/visualize. Not perfect, but if you do this while warming up you should be all set once you are ready to train.

Rules 30.1 & 30.2 apply from the Laws where an umpire must decide if a jack is too damaged and must be replaced. Then if replaced the end is declared dead and you jump to law 20 which deals with areas around dead ends. In this case WBT and the umpires instead counted it as a jack out of play, replaced the damaged jack and respotted it.

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Take some time and focus only on your forehand delivery. Do it outside of a match/game and don't worry about trying to deliver to a jack. Set some targets a few feet/meter in front of you on your forehand and work on rolling over top of them and put some energy and focus on your follow-through. By removing all the other distractions of a "normal" delivery you can isolate your issue and focus on what you can do when it's done properly. Really focus on having your release and follow-through with your arm go straight out towards your target (the one right in front of you). Put in some repetition and once you are confident you can deliver without crossing your body, then try a full-length delivery. You may find the need to put some thought and focus on it for a while as things become "natural", but with enough reps and time you'll eventually get rid of it and not have to think about it. The key is taking out all the other stuff before and after the issue and really drilling into it and repeating the preferred motion -- eventually, it will become the norm. It's not a quick fix, but do this during a few practice sessions and keep doing it until you find it's your new normal. Hope this helps! If you have someone who can help as a coach and watch what you do, that will help even more.

Try taking some time to focus solely on the delivery and even take the focus of jack/target out of the equation. Set some targets a few feet/meter in front of you and work on rolling over top of them and put your focus on not twisting your hand/wrist while hitting that target. By removing all the other distractions of a "normal" delivery you can isolate that part and do repetition on a non-twist version. When you are confident you can deliver without the twist, then try a full length delivery. You may find the need to put some thought and focus on no doing the twist, but with enough reps and time you'll eventually get rid of it and not have to think about it. Hope this helps! If you have someone who can help as a coach and watch what you do, that will help even more.

To start the idea is that a mat length in any direction would be effective. So in front, to the sides or behind is ok. Once you really start locking that in and need to challenge yourself then you can alter your parameters for success and I'd go with a mat width anywhere in front and a mat length behind. The fact is that 95% of the time the jack is going to move backwards during the end, so front bowls get further and further away and therefore become less effective over time. For a lot of people mat length is a hard enough challenge, so I always start there and then increase difficulty as the skills improve.

@@CanadianBowler Thank you! Appreciate the response, and creating my goals. The video and instructions was easy to follow and understand.

Short bowls are a skips nightmare unless they are just in front of the jack otherwise they are usually in the road of other bowls

Thanks for the feedback. We've removed any background music from future videos, but the ones already posted will have that. Hope you still got a lot from the information presented!

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Sometimes the size of the bowl we play with is the last item we look at when we are having delivery issues, but it can be the easiest to correct! You'll likely notice that dropping from a 3 to a 2 will not be a huge difference, but enough that you can play and grip the bowl better. Hope it works for you!

It's a game that you can play forever, but age/injuries/ailments all play a part in HOW we play the game. Making adjustments to equipment (smaller bowls perhaps?), the way you set up and deliver a bowl (sometimes static delivery works) can help keep you bowling at a higher level. Take a look at some of our other videos like this one: czcams.com/video/E92aYQKxE5g/video.html where we offer some tips.