Lawn Bowls Delivery: Questions and Answers | Technical Difficulties 

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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.

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.

Hi Bob -- When delivering a bowl the ideal is to never use your fingers or wrist to try and move the bowl forward or give it an extra push/flick to propel it. The bowl should come smoothly off the hand with no additional movement. The weight/distance the bowl travels should be dictated by your overall body movement through your delivery. Hope that helps!

Always worth trying new things and seeing how it works for you. There is no one way to deliver a bowl. but as long as you get it down smooth and can do it over and over, then you are set!

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

Hi Don! We hope to have a video coming out this summer (once Canadian greens open for play) on picking line. But to try and answer in a brief way -- As a starter try to find immovable points within the view of your delivery as reference (like a rink marker or fence post) and start there -- you may find easier ways to get a starting point after some practice. Next draw a straight line down towards you onto the green about 1/2 to 3/4 of the way between you and your target. Use that as your focus point and bowl towards that. Then you adjust as needed to narrow or widen so you eventually end up on centre. Hope that helps a bit and keep an eye on the channel for future videos!

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!

Hello castyourlead! There are a number of things that can cause you to drop your bowl on release. Usually the main issues are not getting down on delivery and not hitting the window for a good release point. It can also be that your are having issues holding on to the bowl. I'd suggest having someone watch your delivery like a coach or doing some video and seeing if you can isolate the issue!

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There is a stationary stance you can adopt to try and limit the movement and need to bend and move, really it comes down to how smooth you can release the bowl. If it's really hard on you to get low and roll a bowl (as in you are dropping it or tossing it) it may be time to think about a bowls arm or assistant tool.

Definitely why we have a whole video on the grip!

Foot faulting is always a hotly debated topic. There are some instances where it's a clear violation, but the vast majority are so quick at release that it's hard to argue it without photo/video evidence. All you can hope is that everyone is doing their best to be within the rules and not intentionally doing it as you'd be hard pressed to have it enforced in competition without it being really obvious. On a few of our live shows we've had some images up where you can see the person is a foot off the mat and the bowl is still leaving their hand (usually on drive shots). All you can do is bring it to an umpire's attention and see where it goes.

Hi Jenny! Hi Steve! Glad you enjoyed the video. We have a few videos being worked on that deal with shot selection and finding your point of aim. Keep an eye on the channel!

Hey Jenny @bagaay1 - we just dropped a new video on line and weight which should help you with your question! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5gTlczR427Y.html

Thank you so much .. terrific