In a good practice session, every bowl you grass must be preceded by your consistent pre-delivery routine. If you are leaving out steps because it is just a repetition of your last bowl, then you are hard-wiring bad habits.
But let's be honest, if you get into the habit of delivering bowls one after the other to the same jack, at the same distance, from the same mat position, then, it is tempting to omit some of the steps of your pre-delivery routine because over that briefer period, your muscle memory can and will provide you an otherwise unavailable help getting your weight and line correct.
Remember— you don’t get to grass bowl after bowl, in relatively quick succession in a game. An opponent alternates with you and not necessarily promptly!
It is better practice to place two or more jacks (or flapjacks) at different positions on a rink and bowl to them alternately. This will cause you to follow your complete pre-delivery routine more faithfully since no two consecutive bowls will aim for the same target.
When I catch myself disregarding even a single element of my delivery protocol I give myself a mental warning the first time it happens. I end my practice session if it happens again.
If you are not serious about practicing, let's agree to call what you are doing a pastime, because that's all your doing-- passing time!
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