New bowler here (9months) Even though we're miles apart (UK), you are my coach..lol watched all your videos on CZcams and taken little snippets of info from each and everyone of them. Keep up the good work. Appreciate all you do for us novice bowlers.
+helen simmonds Thank you Helen for the great compliment. I will continue to compile everything I know so that you can continue to improve. No good holding that knowledge in my head when you can be out there using it.
Hey Thanks Nev, grate to see you again, I took up the shooter stance about 15 months ago after seeing your vid. Its been a real game changer for me. I was playing more consistent bowls after just one week of practice, and have been enjoying the game a whole lot more. So glade to see you back.
Good to see a new video up Nev and to hear that there is more inbound. I implemented the shooter stance in my game a few months back at the tail end of the indoor season here in Scotland and have definitely hit the green running in the outdoor playing some amazing bowls and more consistently hitting my line. Thank you, and please keep the videos coming regularly.
Hi mate love watching your videos and hope you make some more, just started bowls and are using your vids to teach me. Also watched you playing in New Plymouth at the nationals and was very impressed
Hi Nev ... good to see you back mate ... enjoyed all your videos and looking forward to more ... just started coaching myself and am incorporating stuff from your videos as well as those of David Bryant, Richard Corsie and Tony Alcock ... you're in good company! I'm with you every inch of the way in challenging orthadoxy.
This is great news and thanks for the up and coming video clips. the outdoor bowling season is winding down in the Northern hemisphere, so maybe we need a segment on how to stay mentally sharp. Montreal Canada
Great videos, hoping to see some more. I've been bowling a few years and I'm pretty good but my backhand can sometimes not be the most consistent however since switching to the shooter stance(which for the record has been about two weeks) my consistency on both hands has doubled, so thanks for sharing that with us.Also I know you are busy with coaching vids but I'd like to see some more bowls reviews, as there are little to no bowls review videos online which can make choosing a set you have to get delivered from Australia a bit annoying as you can't try them first, thanks mate
Good to see you Nev and glad to hear all is well. I noticed your copy of Perfect Bowls there, i've just had my first read and feel excited about implementing the techniques. Keep your videos coming, they're much appreciated. : )
Hi, Nev, I have watched a few of your videos, just by coming across them. I saw your Shooters Stance a couple of weeks ago and I used it the following day in a Triples Tournament, had a great day and we took away the cabbage. I also agree with your comments about the better bowlers keeping things to themselves, I have been playing for 5 or 6 years and apart from a tip here and there, I have not had any formal coaching lessons and that's not from the want of asking. So I look forward to seeing more of your coaching videos. Cheers Jamie.
On ya Jamie. I'm currently creating videos and will lift the lid on everything! Sad to hear that you are not receiving much help - however it encourages me to take that roll and help people like yourself take it to em!
Thanks for the new vid Nev. I messaged you a while ago and I thank you for your kind response. Changing my stance has improved my game, just got to concentrate more. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and I look forward to more tips. Cheers
Hi Nev: Great job with the videos. I adopted the shooters stance and it has improved my bowling. Thank you for that. I'm looking forward to a video on weight control. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Cheers!
Hi Nev, good to hear you're going to post more vid's! Wishing you all the best! I've been putting a lot of effort into trying out what you've suggested in previous posts, with a growing confidence. Look forward to some Q&A time in the near future. Nailing the jack, and rhythm speed vid has been put to use, but avoiding the amatuer method could do with some updates on how to control weight. Shooter stance took a while to get used to, but I'm an advocate of balance now. 9 tenths is my next target. More on weight control please. Enjoy your new horizons, and thanks again!
+Arthur Scott Hey Arthur, let me make some videos on weight control. I recently had a great coaching session here in Wellington with a mate covering the same topic. Glad to hear its working for you. Awesome feedback. :)
glad to see the vids are back mate, my game has really improved thanks to you. I was teaching my girlfriend to play the other day and a club coach came over and tried to correct her stance to the orthodox one. she was polite, but immediately went back to the shooter stance. thanks again mate
Fantastic news Michael. Yer you will find resistance to the change and the best thing you can do is be polite. :) Let me know how your progress goes. I am getting a blog up at the moment that I will share lessons with more details
Hi Nev, so enjoy your videos and looking forward to seeing more. Am doing the Shooters stance even though some other (older) bowlers comment that I am not standing right etc, but I am happy with it. Luckily one of the coaches at my club is also doing it and he is right giving me off season coaching and know what I am doing. Thank you again and as said so looking forward to more of your videos
TY Sharane, yup I know the feeling of people trying to tell you how to do it. Thinking for yourself and basing the decision on results would be a good way to tackle it. Don't mind them, when you start to beat them they will be asking you how you do it. :p
Hi Nev I am new to lawn bowls only bowling for last six months and also did ten pin for 35 years , I find it difficult to using the standard text book methods , but I have found that I have adapted the way I hold the bowl and and the way I set up to what I focus on when delivering the bowl ,I believe that everyone is different and they need to find what works for them as I have tried different things to know what works for me ....
Cheers Nev.......you make great vids and they really do help, so please keep them coming.It's about time we had a new way of thinking and coaching especially as I'm starting to coach my young lad....I got the older blokes trying to coach him and its all old school way and i end up pulling my hair out, so would be great to be able to pass on some newer forward thinking techniques and thought processes. Keep it up!
+Pete Bowler on ya Pete. It would be awesome to compile a book. This method could seriously change the way a lot of people play. Getting it out there is generally the harder part.
Would be great to a complete vid series or e.book etc..... The one area I struggle with is that I play as a skipper....and find it hard to gauge my aiming point as its different every time as your playing so many different types of shots. With a singles game I'm bang on the money as I can just draw and find an aiming point and hit it every time with the shooter stance but when skipping I generally change where I look to somewhere down the green where I think the break point will be...is there a better way or should I find my point and adust from there? You should think about setting up a web forum where you can do a question and answer session!!!!
Thats a cool suggestion. I have registered the domain buildyourskill.com.au and am thinking about setting up a site for coaching. I will keep that in mind Pete, perhaps advanced commenting for Q & A
G'day Nev, glad to hear all's well over there champ. Can you do a video on where you actual look when bowling, some use the bank the arc or even 6 foot in front. I ask some of the state bowler's and they say they don't really look at one spot but they just visualize a line and bowl to it. A video best drills for weight control aka 42 etc Take care Boss
Good Day Nev. I am French. Very interesting tutorial. I recently started playing bowls about 2 months ago in South Africa. Up until now, I have been playing with a 3H DRAKES ball but recently tried a 2.5 AERO ball. I found the AERO easier to control, but then again I only used the 2.5 for about 5 minutes... I find that, during competitions, I play well for the first hour or so but after that my game deteriorates. Do you think this is because of muscle fatigue or something else? I play at 2 clubs and majority of the senior players seek me out for their teams as I apparently have what they call a natural talent for the game even at such an early stage of my play (great confidence booster!). I definitey do not have a big ego but rather an absolute desire to add value to my team and to not let them down with poor performance on game day. I practice every single day for a couple of hours at least and am eager to perfect my skill. Any advice from you will be received with gratitude. I hope to hear from you! Best regards, Noel
Hey Noel. Generally form drops off in a game because of two reasons..... firstly, the green can change. Grass stands up and follows the sun, it could start raining etc. Secondly, focus is everything and its hard to do for a long period of time. What you could do, its go back to basics, focus on getting some rhythm and working yourself back into the game :)
I'm very new to lawn bowls so I can't make a definitive comment BUT. I started with the traditional stance, right foot pointing per club coach advice and I was crap. Yesterday I rolled up with the shooters stance, guess what, right on line 3 out of 4 both hands. The misses were due to my release. Thanks Nev.
Hi Nev the shooter stance is brilliant, I just want to share a thought, coaches can talk about a lot of stuff and be a bit too correct, we, are all differant shapes, and sizes, for me one of the most crucial prerequisites for me, and it's like the penny just dropped recently, it's don't bounce em, don't drop them, because it's a variable that you cannot calculate,, in golf if you take a pitching wedge and take it waist high and swing to waist high you will hit it around 100 yards, but only if you hit it cleanly,, so in bowls you have a similar deal, take the arm back so far, get the rhythm speed right and it go's maybe 30 yds, depending on conditions,and you can repeat it if you are a good player, but drop one and you don't get an authentic value for what you intended, then its like hit and hope, This detail is so important for me, all best.
Hi Nev I know this film came out 5 yrs ago but did you get to do the weighted shot ect film, only asking because as a new bowler you make more sense than anyone I’ve heard, cheer’s .
Hi Nev, I like your video's, if you don't mind I would like to share them with the members of our bowling club under the coaching section, is that ok? Cheers Divis BC (Ireland)
Had a look a the video Pete. I have heard of this video but could never find it. Thanks for the heads up. I love the stance descriptions Bryant uses. The man was way ahead of his time.
I really can't believe that introductory lawn bowling lessons have not adopted the shooter's stance. I'm no teacher myself but I can certain report that it has been the difference maker for me here in Canada. I recommend your teaching videos in my blog Greenbowler.
Cheers Clarke. being conventional does not means it's correct. Look at Nikola Tesla for example. He was ridiculed and laughed at for his radical ideas! Now the entire world live through his inventions which power the world 😇😇
New bowler here (9months) Even though we're miles apart (UK), you are my coach..lol watched all your videos on CZcams and taken little snippets of info from each and everyone of them. Keep up the good work. Appreciate all you do for us novice bowlers.
+helen simmonds Thank you Helen for the great compliment. I will continue to compile everything I know so that you can continue to improve. No good holding that knowledge in my head when you can be out there using it.
Hey Thanks Nev, grate to see you again, I took up the shooter stance about 15 months ago after seeing your vid. Its been a real game changer for me. I was playing more
consistent bowls after just one week of practice, and have been enjoying the game a whole lot more.
So glade to see you back.
Good to see a new video up Nev and to hear that there is more inbound. I implemented the shooter stance in my game a few months back at the tail end of the indoor season here in Scotland and have definitely hit the green running in the outdoor playing some amazing bowls and more consistently hitting my line. Thank you, and please keep the videos coming regularly.
Hi mate love watching your videos and hope you make some more, just started bowls and are using your vids to teach me. Also watched you playing in New Plymouth at the nationals and was very impressed
Hi Nev ... good to see you back mate ... enjoyed all your videos and looking forward to more ... just started coaching myself and am incorporating stuff from your videos as well as those of David Bryant, Richard Corsie and Tony Alcock ... you're in good company! I'm with you every inch of the way in challenging orthadoxy.
This is great news and thanks for the up and coming video clips. the outdoor bowling season is winding down in the Northern hemisphere, so maybe we need a segment on how to stay mentally sharp. Montreal Canada
Great videos, hoping to see some more. I've been bowling a few years and I'm pretty good but my backhand can sometimes not be the most consistent however since switching to the shooter stance(which for the record has been about two weeks) my consistency on both hands has doubled, so thanks for sharing that with us.Also I know you are busy with coaching vids but I'd like to see some more bowls reviews, as there are little to no bowls review videos online which can make choosing a set you have to get delivered from Australia a bit annoying as you can't try them first, thanks mate
Good to see you Nev and glad to hear all is well. I noticed your copy of Perfect Bowls there, i've just had my first read and feel excited about implementing the techniques. Keep your videos coming, they're much appreciated. : )
Thanks Brian, all sweet in NZ. Perfect Bowls is a brilliant book. I recommend all bowlers have a copy handy.
Hi, Nev, I have watched a few of your videos, just by coming across them. I saw your Shooters Stance a couple of weeks ago and I used it the following day in a Triples Tournament, had a great day and we took away the cabbage. I also agree with your comments about the better bowlers keeping things to themselves, I have been playing for 5 or 6 years and apart from a tip here and there, I have not had any formal coaching lessons and that's not from the want of asking. So I look forward to seeing more of your coaching videos. Cheers Jamie.
On ya Jamie. I'm currently creating videos and will lift the lid on everything! Sad to hear that you are not receiving much help - however it encourages me to take that roll and help people like yourself take it to em!
Thanks for the new vid Nev. I messaged you a while ago and I thank you for your kind response.
Changing my stance has improved my game, just got to concentrate more.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and I look forward to more tips.
Cheers
Thanks Bernie. I am chuffed that the vids are helping. :)
Hi Nev: Great job with the videos. I adopted the shooters stance and it has improved my bowling. Thank you for that. I'm looking forward to a video on weight control. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Cheers!
Thanks Phil. The weight control video is a key I have been working on for a long time. I will share with you shortly. :)
Hi Nev, good to hear you're going to post more vid's! Wishing you all the best! I've been putting a lot of effort into trying out what you've suggested in previous posts, with a growing confidence. Look forward to some Q&A time in the near future. Nailing the jack, and rhythm speed vid has been put to use, but avoiding the amatuer method could do with some updates on how to control weight. Shooter stance took a while to get used to, but I'm an advocate of balance now. 9 tenths is my next target. More on weight control please. Enjoy your new horizons, and thanks again!
+Arthur Scott Hey Arthur, let me make some videos on weight control. I recently had a great coaching session here in Wellington with a mate covering the same topic. Glad to hear its working for you. Awesome feedback. :)
Can't wait for these videos! Can't praise you enough for changing me to the shooter stance.
+Sandy Fraser Thanks Sandy.
glad to see the vids are back mate, my game has really improved thanks to you. I was teaching my girlfriend to play the other day and a club coach came over and tried to correct her stance to the orthodox one. she was polite, but immediately went back to the shooter stance. thanks again mate
Fantastic news Michael. Yer you will find resistance to the change and the best thing you can do is be polite. :) Let me know how your progress goes. I am getting a blog up at the moment that I will share lessons with more details
Hi Nev, so enjoy your videos and looking forward to seeing more. Am doing the Shooters stance even though some other (older) bowlers comment that I am not standing right etc, but I am happy with it. Luckily one of the coaches at my club is also doing it and he is right giving me off season coaching and know what I am doing. Thank you again and as said so looking forward to more of your videos
TY Sharane, yup I know the feeling of people trying to tell you how to do it. Thinking for yourself and basing the decision on results would be a good way to tackle it. Don't mind them, when you start to beat them they will be asking you how you do it. :p
Hi Nev I am new to lawn bowls only bowling for last six months and also did ten pin for 35 years , I find it difficult to using the standard text book methods , but I have found that I have adapted the way I hold the bowl and and the way I set up to what I focus on when delivering the bowl ,I believe that everyone is different and they need to find what works for them as I have tried different things to know what works for me ....
Cheers Nev.......you make great vids and they really do help, so please keep them coming.It's about time we had a new way of thinking and coaching especially as I'm starting to coach my young lad....I got the older blokes trying to coach him and its all old school way and i end up pulling my hair out, so would be great to be able to pass on some newer forward thinking techniques and thought processes. Keep it up!
+Pete Bowler on ya Pete. It would be awesome to compile a book. This method could seriously change the way a lot of people play. Getting it out there is generally the harder part.
Would be great to a complete vid series or e.book etc.....
The one area I struggle with is that I play as a skipper....and find it hard to gauge my aiming point as its different every time as your playing so many different types of shots. With a singles game I'm bang on the money as I can just draw and find an aiming point and hit it every time with the shooter stance but when skipping I generally change where I look to somewhere down the green where I think the break point will be...is there a better way or should I find my point and adust from there?
You should think about setting up a web forum where you can do a question and answer session!!!!
Thats a cool suggestion. I have registered the domain buildyourskill.com.au and am thinking about setting up a site for coaching. I will keep that in mind Pete, perhaps advanced commenting for Q & A
G'day Nev, glad to hear all's well over there champ. Can you do a video on where you actual look when bowling, some use the bank the arc or even 6 foot in front. I ask some of the state bowler's and they say they don't really look at one spot but they just visualize a line and bowl to it. A video best drills for weight control aka 42 etc Take care Boss
Good Day Nev. I am French. Very interesting tutorial. I recently started playing bowls about 2 months ago in South Africa. Up until now, I have been playing with a 3H DRAKES ball but recently tried a 2.5 AERO ball. I found the AERO easier to control, but then again I only used the 2.5 for about 5 minutes... I find that, during competitions, I play well for the first hour or so but after that my game deteriorates. Do you think this is because of muscle fatigue or something else? I play at 2 clubs and majority of the senior players seek me out for their teams as I apparently have what they call a natural talent for the game even at such an early stage of my play (great confidence booster!). I definitey do not have a big ego but rather an absolute desire to add value to my team and to not let them down with poor performance on game day. I practice every single day for a couple of hours at least and am eager to perfect my skill. Any advice from you will be received with gratitude. I hope to hear from you! Best regards, Noel
Hey Noel. Generally form drops off in a game because of two reasons..... firstly, the green can change. Grass stands up and follows the sun, it could start raining etc. Secondly, focus is everything and its hard to do for a long period of time. What you could do, its go back to basics, focus on getting some rhythm and working yourself back into the game :)
I'm very new to lawn bowls so I can't make a definitive comment BUT. I started with the traditional stance, right foot pointing per club coach advice and I was crap. Yesterday I rolled up with the shooters stance, guess what, right on line 3 out of 4 both hands. The misses were due to my release. Thanks Nev.
Hey Nev have you had a chance to have a look at the backhand,as Iam struggling a bit on the backhand.
Hi Nev the shooter stance is brilliant, I just want to share a thought, coaches can talk about a lot of stuff and be a bit too correct, we, are all differant shapes, and sizes, for me one of the most crucial prerequisites for me, and it's like the penny just dropped recently, it's don't bounce em, don't drop them, because it's a variable that you cannot calculate,, in golf if you take a pitching wedge and take it waist high and swing to waist high you will hit it around 100 yards, but only if you hit it cleanly,, so in bowls you have a similar deal, take the arm back so far, get the rhythm speed right and it go's maybe 30 yds, depending on conditions,and you can repeat it if you are a good player, but drop one and you don't get an authentic value for what you intended, then its like hit and hope, This detail is so important for me, all best.
Any tips on use of bowlers' arms, Nev?
Hi Nev I know this film came out 5 yrs ago but did you get to do the weighted shot ect film, only asking because as a new bowler you make more sense than anyone I’ve heard, cheer’s .
Thanks Nev,looking forward too see it.
Cheers Lee
Can the shooter stance work with a mechanical Arm.
I use the shooter stance in my coaching works really well. Thanks
some info on how to concentrate on weight and line also correction so many people don't correct on a bad shot
Hi Nev, I like your video's, if you don't mind I would like to share them with the members of our bowling club under the coaching section, is that ok?
Cheers
Divis BC (Ireland)
Nev glad you made this video.could you look at the backhand in your next video.
+Lee Schwartz Yup, Thats the next one to go up. I have not forgotten you Lee.:)
I would be keen to hear your thought on mental toughness through a game.
Yes, very important topic! Most of the time the difference between winning and losing. I’ll create that video 👍👍
You got my support
Hey Nev......search Bryant on Bowls.....new video been put on recently and some other old ones with Tony Allcock...Makes an interesting watch!!
Had a look a the video Pete. I have heard of this video but could never find it. Thanks for the heads up. I love the stance descriptions Bryant uses. The man was way ahead of his time.
I'm playing bowls for 4 years (started when I was 11). Just use a stance that is natural. I would like to know what this ''shooter stance is""
Just watch shooter stance video really enjoyed it. Does it take long to learn. Can you have your feet were they were originally.
+Brad Hutchinson And then turn foot
Should not take long Brad, you will start to pick it up in a couple of weeks. Stick with it, the results come after a few months.
Really enjoying your videos. However they are ready hard to hear from poor sound capture. Need a collar microphone. Otherwise excellent.
I really can't believe that introductory lawn bowling lessons have not adopted the shooter's stance. I'm no teacher myself but I can certain report that it has been the difference maker for me here in Canada. I recommend your teaching videos in my blog Greenbowler.
Cheers Clarke. being conventional does not means it's correct. Look at Nikola Tesla for example. He was ridiculed and laughed at for his radical ideas! Now the entire world live through his inventions which power the world 😇😇
Spelt obsolete.
Haha good pickup!!