At the Turramurra
LBC near Sydney Australia, when I sought help to control the weight of my
deliveries, Bob Hawtree, one of the coaches, told me to really look closely at the
distance of the jack from the mat and silently in my head ask the question, “What
does it feel like to bowl to a jack at this distance?" I was told this would elicit
a response from my muscle memory. Then, “You should simply bowl with that memory
in your mind.”
Essentially this means don’t first try estimating the number of meters from mat to jack and then putting a number on it. Rather, let your internal computer take the data from your eyes and let it control your muscles directly.
I was not spending enough time just looking carefully at the distance of the jack from the mat and letting that feed to my ‘mental computer’.
This advice must, of course, be combined with a fundamentally reproducible delivery motion. The coach emphasized three things for me in this area: the position where the bowl is released (about 6 inches in front of the advancing foot; the point in one’s swing where the step out begins (the bottom of my backswing); and the height to which one raises one’s arm in the follow through (not more than the height of the knee).
Gratifyingly, this works amazingly well! I have dramatically upped my game. This is in fact the most significant improvement I have made in years!
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