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TRAINING FOR COMPETION
To be competitive in training and competition you must train, this means mental toughness and physical body preparation by knowing what to control and condition as follows;

NLP: In the field of lawn bowls and other sports; Neuro-Linguistic Programming, commonly known as NLP, is the art of science of excellence, which covers communication, education and therapy………..

In lawn bowls, fear and frustration are emotions that occur in situations where one is blocked from reaching a personal goal. The more emphasis placed on the goal the greater the fear and frustration of loosing.

Lawn bowling coaches must attempt to motivate their teams by a mixture of methods; emotional excitement, reason and conditioning, to get players to focus in specific ways, both on their own and as a team in order to unite as one controlled and effective team unit

When playing a lawn bowls game, have you ever had the experience of being on a winning roll, the feeling that you could do no wrong? A time when everything seems to go right? When every draw shot finished on target and every on-shot, running and drive shot hit the target irrespective whether it was planned or not. You can also probably remember times you messed up things that you usually do well, when every step and everything you did turned out wrong, and you’ve thought to yourself “Hell, what a mess I‘m in!”

In lawn bowls as in other sports, individuals or teams who succeed have the power of commitment. If you look at successful bowlers at any level, you’ll find that some may not necessary appear the best and the brightest, nor do they have the best delivery style. Don’t judge a book by its cover, what you’ll find they have over others is that they know their outcome, model what works, take action, develop a sensory acuity to know what their getting, and keep refining it until they get what they want.

“Behaviours don’t change, we do!” Many lawn bowlers have difficulty in disassociating behaviours that no longer suit them or converting themselves into those they want instead. Behaviours which are hard to control are often labelled as bad attitudes. A prerequisite to successful lawn bowling is having the ability to reframe any behaviour quickly, simply and at will. One effective method is called reframing, which is simple to understand and effective to use. To obtain a better understanding about your behaviour there are number of points which you need to know.

Throughout the bowling careers of many bowlers, no matter how well they played, some 70% have not been selected in various competitive teams because of their attitude problems and this still applies today. Should you doubt this statement I suggest you cast your observation on the selection of your own club pennant teams. In fact it gets worse at the top of the ladder, you’re there one minute and gone the next.

Human behaviour in lawn bowls is one of the few areas that continue to operate from outmoded theories and information. Many of us are still using early nineteenth-century models of how the brain works and how we behave. The movers and shakers in the sport of lawn bowls put a label on behaviour called a “bad attitude”