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Learning and doing: In lawn bowls, learning and doing is an unconscious process when it comes to learning, practicing and performing. It is a natural skill which is inherent within us from the day we are born, arising from the composition of the mind, rather than acquired from experience. You need only look at young children learning, to recognise that this is true! Young children, before they have the dubious advantage of school education, are unconscious learners. “Think about it, you were once in that unconscious learning state! If you are still mentally active, walking and talking, then you are still quite capable of using that learnt knowledge and unconscious process!”

Delegation: Delegation is essentially subsidiary or procedural power of an enactment of which allows a performance to be achieved by individuals or groups of bowlers particularly in the team and side environment. The skip doesn’t and can’t do everything; at times the team or side must function effectively without their skips. For this to happen, however, decisions must be continuously made about what to delegate prior to, during and after events. Delegation is a tool that aligns duties for maximum performance and skill training, at the same time avoid mental overload and physical burnout of team or side members.

Introduction: In lawn bowls; decision making is concerned with using the perceptual information about what is tactically occurring around the individual or team in relation to the disposition of the game and the state and configuration of their own mind to determine what response, if any, is needed. The process of selection in what to do is influenced, and limited, by a number of key factors including; the number of decisions that can be made, the number of response options from which to select, the total game time available for decision making and the response time associated with re-establishing control after making incorrect decisions.

Coaches and players must have a good understanding of the three different types of fitness required for competitive lawn bowls. These are mental, game and physical fitness which involves; learning to control your mental senses, atonement of the muscular system to the delivery technique and the required physical endurance for long standing periods, often in hot or cold condition, which in all coordinated to a peak allows the require undisturbed flow of high levels of mental concentration.

In lawn bowls sensory awareness is an exercise involving precise coordination of the neuromuscular system of the body. The success of this coordination obviously depends on accurate sensory information and feedback; so it is important to realise that the key to improved performance lies in developing personal control over what particular sensory mode, internal or external, you choose to pay attention to at any given moment.

DESCRIPTION: In lawn bowls confidence has three states that could be described as being unconfident, confident and overconfident. Bowlers often drift from one state of confidence to the other whether at play or training.

LEARNING: The object of this article is to entice you to understand what state you are in and […]

The preparation keys to improve your lawn bowls are: be prepared, be patient, be positive, be practical

There is usually some other factor affecting the run of the lawn bowl and a major one is the imposing effects of wind. During the game, lawn bowlers are often confronted with wind conditions that have a disastrous effect on the path of the bowl

The eyes play a very important part in perfecting the skills of lawn bowls. They control the physical and mental aspects that are required in the game

Too many lawn bowls players and coaches, I fear, do not spend enough time doing the base work that creates the foundation of skills