The Delivery at Lawn Bowls: Backswing Like a Pool Player

I have blogged about the importance of a slow methodical backswing as part of an accurate lawn bowling delivery. In another earlier blog I have compared this to an archer slowly drawing back the bow string. I think having a useful analogy for a physical action can highlight its most important elements.

Once more I would like to emphasize the importance of a backswing exactly along the extension of your aim line for the bowl’s delivery. Instead of archery I think an even better way to think about it is to compare it with billiards. The hand holding the cue must be precisely on the aim line that the billiard ball is to take. Also it is briefly stationary before the commencement of the forward push of the cue or the forward swing of the arm when a lawn bowl is grassed.

I find that mentally concentrating on a careful draw back of the bowl both improves one’s success hitting the aim line and takes one’s conscious mind off the question of weight and lets one’s subconscious take take care of that!