GLENBROOK PANTHERS

BOWLING CLUB

Rees Little takes 2014

Major Singles crown

1 Hare St Glenbrook

Phone 02 47206800

Fax 47206899

Bowls office 02 4739 1275 (check times)

Information for members and guests

REPORT FOR MAY 2014

What a busy month on the bowling greens and particularly the recent

Easter & Anzac Day programs, starting with Blaxland Day “n” Night

Pharmacy Easter Saturday Men’s Nominated AM & PM Pairs with 28

starters and Prize Money of $340 on the day.

Easter Monday Mixed Triples had 54 bowlers playing for prize money

of $390 and the week concluded with Blaxland/Glenbrook RSL Sub Branch Anzac Day Mixed Triples

with 52 bowlers and Prize Money of $510. Congratulations to all the winners.

If you include the Wednesday AM & PM Men’s bowls in between Easter & Anzac Day we had over

190 bowlers playing for almost $1,500 in just 4 days. A big thank you to the Blaxland/Glenbrook RSL

Sub Branch for their very generous donation for the Anzac Day event.

Whilst on Anzac Day, congratulations to President Tony Lowe and his Vice Presidents’ “Ockie”

Collins and John Graves, Secretary Paul Macklin and Treasurer John Pugh and their entire, (albeit

small), hard working team involved within our RSL Sub Branch for an excellent and extremely well

run Dawn Service and mid morning Commemorative Ceremonies. The bands were magnificent as were

the choir and it made me very proud to be an Aussie and I am really looking forward to helping

celebrate the centenary event next year.

Congratulations to Victor Emmanuel on taking out the Blaxland Day “n” Night Pharmacy Men’s Minor

Singles Club Championship in a solid win over Bede Thornton, who knocked off some big names on

his way to the final. Well done to the victor, Victor.

Finally, I had the pleasure of marking the most gripping and hard fought Blaxland Day “n” Night

Pharmacy Men’s Major Singles Club Championship that I have ever marked. In fact it is the only final

that I have marked. The “People’s Champion” Greg Jeans was gallant in defeat to our new champion

Rees Little. With many of the 110 bowlers who played in the morning watching on it was a full house

to witness 34 ends of excellent bowls. Rees held his nerve and at one stage trailed by 9 shots and did

not hit the lead until the 30th

end to prevail 31-28. Congratulations Rees. He hasn’t lost a game of

singles since joining Glenbrook. Whilst Rees enjoyed a big cheer squad headed by his mum Nancy and

his wife and children his father, David, was a notable absentee. When I asked Rees mid-game if David

was okay Rees replied, “Dad can’t even watch St George play footy on the TV so there is no way he

could watch me play in a final”.

Yours in Bowls

Paul Hoolahan President – Glenbrook Panthers Men’s Bowling Club

Bowlers

Firstly, The Anzac Day services at the club were another huge event at

our Club. The representation by our members was great to see and the

turnout by the many individuals and families of all ages shows that the

depth of feeling and support of all who attended is proof that the spirit of

Anzac will continue for many decades to come. Thank you to Kathy and all the staff of Glenbrook

Panthers who assisted in making sure that the day was the great success it was.

Our mixed bowls event on Anzac day was well supported and the continued support and sponsorship of

the Glenbrook/Blaxland RSL Sub-branch is most appreciated.

The final of the club Major Singles championship was played on Sunday 27 April between Greg Jeans

and Rees Little with Rees being the victor 31-28. Congratulations Rees.

The club Major Pairs championship is progressing well with more rounds to be played on Sunday 4

May.

The Veteran’s Singles championship nomination forms are currently available from the bar staff.

Nominations for this event will close at 5.00pm on Sunday 4 May with round one commencing on

Tuesday 13 May. Entrants must be 65 years of age by the closing date for this championship.

Pennants resume on Saturday 3 May with round 10 scheduled for Saturday 17 May. On the afternoon

of 17 May, all players, managers and helpers are invited to attend our after Pennant function.

Some of our players have acquitted themselves quite well at the NDBA over 65 pairs at St Marys BC.

Ken Hale and Graham Olson played Bede Thornton and Rod Jacka in the first round which resulted in

a win to Bede and Rod. Rod and Bede then came up against another Glenbrook pair in Glenn Beaver

and John Burke with Glenn and John proving to be too good on the St Marys turf. Glenn and John now

progress to the quarter finals of this event and we wish the very best of good fortune as they (hopefully)

progress to the finals.

To each of our Pennant teams good bowling and big “6” point wins in the remaining three games.

To our ladies, who have won three flags for the Club, congratulations to each of you. Keep up the good

work and win at Zone level.

Until the next edition, good bowling.

Fred Debnam

Bowls Coordinator

April 2014

I trust you all enjoyed the Easter break! Great weather for playing bowls.

It is official now that Glenbrook panthers have won the Grade 2, Grade 4

and Grade 5 Pennants. Grade 3 came second in their section and the plate

third.

The selectors have done a great job and the players have performed well for the Club. We should all be

extremely proud. I know I am! The unfurling of the flag date is yet to be decided. It will be a wonderful

day for celebration for everyone.

Club singles are progressing well and the finals should be completed before District Pairs and Singles

games. The best of luck goes to all players in the club and district events. Glenbrook will be hosting

morning and afternoon games on May 13 with 14 rinks being used in the morning and 7 rinks during

the afternoon.

The District Singles will be played during June.

Thanks to Patricia Harvey with her great effort in raising funds for the Farmers relief appeal. To all

who gave so freely, much appreciated.

The weather has been kind and nice to see many returning to bowls.

Thanks once again to all involved with the running of our ladies club. Your work has not gone

unnoticed.

Lots to come with special events so watch this spot.

Good bowling and “may the wick be with you”

Jackie Lewis

President

Bowl displaced by neutral person or neutral object.

Neutral person – A person who is not a player on the rink of play. This

includes the marker and the player.

IN ORIGINAL COURSE – HEAD NOT DISTURBED BEFORE;

Within boundaries of the rink – head not disturbed after;

Have the bowl replayed.

Within boundaries of the rink – head disturbed after;

Agree how to replace head and have the bowl replayed or if no agreement, declare the end dead.

Outside of head on correct bias – head not disturbed after;

Have bowl replayed.

Outside of boundary on correct bias – head disturbed after;

Agree how to replace head and have bowl replayed or if no agreement, declare the end dead.

Answer to last month’s questions;

Ques. A live bowl at rest near the boundary is lifted by mistake to allow a bowl in course on

the same rink to pass. The bowl in course enters the head and becomes shot or hits an

opponent’s bowl into shot. What action is taken regarding (a) the bowl at rest and (b) the

bowl in course?

Ans. (a) is covered by law 28.1.4.1. If a bowl at rest is displaced by a player, the opposing

skip should put the bowl back to its former position. However, with (b) we have a

problem. There is no law covering this. The bowl in course has been delivered on the

correct bias. It has not been displaced in any way.

I ran this one past the level 2 umpires in the club and this is where common sense and a spirit of fair

play arises. There are two (2) options that the umpire can present to the skips. (1) If the head has been

disturbed, restore the head and have the bowl replayed or (2) declare the end dead.

Personally, I lean towards option (1). It was an honest mistake with no intention to effect an outcome in

the end. All the umpire can do is present the skips with both options and hope that they can agree on

one of them. I actually saw an incident like this occur in a game. However, the bowl in course ran right

past the head without touching another bowl. The two skips/thirds left the bowl where it came to rest

and got on with the game. Common sense.

This month’s question.

Q. Does the skip have to keep the scorecard and can the skip delegate this duty to their second?

Phil McColl

Reg Wheeler recently underwent surgery on his nose and throat and an

overnight stay in hospital. Reg advises that everything went well.

Neil Baudinet also had a spell in hospital for a few days. However, he is

back home and feeling much better. He hopes to be back bowling soon.

Graham Smith recently had a scare with chest pains which required a visit to the hospital. After

observation and tests it was reported that everything is okay and he is on the mend.

Following his game on the Wednesday afternoon of 23 April, Tony James suffered a stroke at his home

that evening. As of 27 April, Tony is suffering with paralysis in his left leg and arm together with some

problem with his speaking. Treatment will be continuing throughout the coming weeks.

Should anyone know of any member that is unwell or had an accident, would you please contact me.

Tony Crimston

Welfare Officer - 4739 1997

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE

If you are looking for the services of a JP, any one of the following is available to assist you.

Please call for assistance.

John Allcock Mt Riverview 4739 8184

Tess Allcock Mt Riverview 4739 8184

Bob Ashton Blaxland 4739 3040

Pam Chamberlin Luddenham 4773 4123

Fred Debnam Winmalee 4754 2269

Frank Higgins Mt Riverview 4739 1239

Barry Scott Leonay 4735 2541

Hello everyone,

Sunday 27 April saw the first visit to our club by the Parramatta Travelling Bowlers. They attended

with 48 bowlers. As we were able to match them, nearly all rinks were occupied with a game of fours.

They were quite a competitive group resulting in hard fought and close games.

Bowling took place until approximately with most groups playing 18 or more ends. Including seven

non-players, 111 people enjoyed a lunch of alternate servings of chicken and fish and if the empty

plates are any indication, the lunch was most

appreciated. For this we sincerely thank the catering

staff.

At the completion of lunch, rink prizes were drawn

as well as the “100” board and raffles were drawn.

Fred Debnam thanked all for being attendance,

particularly the bowlers from Parramatta. The

Parramatta bowlers responded with the promise that

a trip to Glenbrook will be added to their annual

bowling calendar.

The great turnout of Glenbrook bowlers was most

pleasing and we hope that this will be repeated in

our coming events.

Our next day will be on Sunday 18 May when we

will be travelling to Campbelltown Bowling Club.

It is proposed that we travel by car pool with the

club paying $20 to each car with four bowlers in it.

This will save on hiring out a coach; therefore

reducing the cost per person for the trip. Dress will

be mufti with club shirt.

Bye for now - See you on the green.

Rex Brearley Secretary

Having been away for a month I found it hard to come to grips with

all that had happened and also prepare for ANZAC Day

Time just raced away, and then it was upon us. The weather

threatened to dampen the day. However, as the time approached, we were blessed with a

period of overcast but fine weather.

The crowds turned out and the numbers were equal or better than last year. The Club put

on a good hearty breakfast and then it was a case of wait and see if the rain would ease

off by 10.00 am. Again we had the weather on our side. So with the RFS tankers

leading the way and the pipers playing we marched to the memorial for our main

service. Once again the locals did us proud with so many turning up and lining the

streets and filling the area around the memorial and the street as well.

Local politicians as well as the Mayor attended

The Blue Mountains Concert band and the Blaxland High School’s Vocal Ensemble

added to the atmosphere. Group Captain Karon Millet gave the ANZAC address.

Afterwards we retired to the club

where a few welcome beers were

enjoyed by all.

Now all that remains is to prepare for

the 100th Anniversary next year.

John Pugh

THOUGHT OF THE MONTH

“You can become a success by building a firm

foundation with the bricks thrown at you!”

TACTICS TIPS PART 3 - MENTAL TOUGHNESS

Presented by Macka Jensen

Strategies and other mechanisms: Success, we are often told by trainers and coaches, whom appear to know their stuff, is all about the game plan. We also need to include mental toughness and learn to anticipate the emotional effects, challenges and reactions in advance and then, using our intelligence, knowledge and experience, we should prepare ourselves in training with strategies and other mechanisms that ensure triumph over the mental forces of chaos and anarchy. Now let’s acquaint ourselves with a few things we may know or may not know about. Evolve with your energies: Your assertiveness should evolve with your energies e.g. your desire to play in the pennants competition and the perfection of your playing skills that gives you all the potential to be making an amazing step forward. But if you are still losing, you might ask what is still missing? “Hey Presto”! It’s your change of attitude towards the game. You need more bravado, a bolder manner that shows off your playing skills that’s intended to impress your team members and, of course, the opposition. This can also be done by being a little more adventurous in undertaking team training with other choices of tactical shots that combine all four team members. Combining team practice makes perfect conformity. The issue is! “Get with your experienced relationship issues, you’re feelings of this energy”; don’t hold back that latent talent you’ve got e.g. concealed, dormant, existing but not developed or manifested yet. But this also suggests that if you use the energies to work through your issues, you could come out the other side more evolved. Remember, we are in this club competition to evolve, emotionally and spiritually as much as physically, and it’s when times are tough or intense such as now, that we need to leap forward. Now if you’re losing games, all sorts of relationship issues are bubbling to the surface. These could be to do with yourself, team partners, your trainer, coach or even selectors. It could also be to do with anyone else who you consider to be a VIP in your prototype bowler. All we are asking is lift your profile by dealing with these things using common sense. Now for the bewildered and the frustrated these following tips are the way to make sure that you don’t send everything spinning out of control. Information or delusion: Now to speak of the other end of the whip; some strange attitudes, not that they are here in our club, must not be allowed to manifest into the system of leadership or performance which can be dangerous for criticism contending with players doubts in regards to their direction or performance. We ask that skippers be aware: be they the dominating type, the personable type or the casual type; that insufficient team leadership information required for the team and for themselves can be due to a lack of insight, stubbornness, the want of doing it their or your way, or even a lack of knowledge e.g. refraining from having briefings that coordinates the training game plan that highlight strengths and improve weaknesses, good debriefings that reveal tactical strengths and weaknesses that were present or non-existent in that game and of course the reconstruction of the next game plan, which both the lack of in turn, causes confusion to the remainder of the team, things that are often spoken of despairingly. “A state of mind we don’t want to be in, experiences we don’t want to have either before, during or after the game. But there are worst things than confusion, that’s delusion e.g. a false belief or impression! Far better for example to be bewildered for the right reason, than to be crystal clear about the wrong

thing, delusion is outright dangerous to winning any game. Prior knowledge and training dispels fear, better to have a team well informed and practiced about what is wanted beforehand than not at all. These elements are as follows; Self-centered controlling elements: When teams hold no briefings after the game it’s easy enough for some skippers to get their own way. It’s not so easy though, to be sure, that their own way is the best! If, as they set out to meet their own target, they cause someone else to miss theirs, they may end up with a hollow victory. Because the team has been used like puppets on strings. Such controlling elements are easily forgotten in the competitive arena of pennants, but bowlers matter more than personal desires of one person. A compromise which keeps alive a sense of warmth and trust has to be preferable to a battle fought and won, which leaves a deep resentment! A genuine doubt is often worth far more than a false certainty. Controlling circumstances: The director at the head should have a very thoughtful and analytic approach to each stage of the game e.g. the beginning, middle and the end, particularly when determining the tactical disposition of the head for the next and subsequent shot to be played. No two discussion makers look at the same tactical disposition in the same way, particularly when, your actions and the oppositions engagements are governed by winning or losing circumstances. Circumstances can be affected by; who’s got control of the head, the amount of shots required and the scoring shots within the head, the time available, and last but not least the present performance of either team. Mental toughness: We are dealing here with the “good the bad and the ugly circumstances”, for example: On a good day, you are brilliant! And on a bad one, well, even at your worst, if you have attended training you will still have more to offer than many bowlers do at their best. It’s important now, not to underestimate your charm, your talent, your intelligence and your experience. Is there a risk that you could overestimate some of the above and become dangerously overconfident? Well, yes! There is a slight risk but we’ll cross that bridge if we ever get to it. Right now, as the game goes on, you need to be more assured of yourself and that you hope will soon be delightfully granted. Now, it’s not always easy for you to play with the consequences of your character traits. Take, for example, your occasional tendency to go through mood swings. Or to subject yourself to highly unjustified self-criticism. If the good and bad has occurred in previous games, you have unnecessarily been through a lot lately. Next time before the game has peaked, try a little self control to give you a chance to be cool, calm and collective with everything, “that’s mental toughness”, your control will straighten it all out and put your game on a comfortably safe even keel. All you have to do, in the meantime, is resist your current inclination to be far too hard on yourself. All too often, we allow our cares and concerns to weigh us down. Without realizing it, we allow them to build up within us until they have become the prime focus of our attention. We then feel unable to relax or enjoy ourselves. We grow too tense to think about anything other than the matters which are making us emotionally mad. It’s crucial to let go of such feelings. You will find that a little levity, distraction, frivolity and essential refreshment are vital to your control. Such action will make it much easier for you to see clearly where you are going wrong. The correction is called mental toughness. Conceal weaknesses: We can as a team “Conceal our weaknesses with the precision of our technique”: By this we mean to hide, withdraw or remove from observation, cover or keep from sight from the opposition. These concealed weaknesses are as follows; The state or quality of being weak: in the team’s defence, attack or recovery or, The player’s feebleness in mental toughness, a weak point as in a player’s character; such as anxiety e.g. distress or uneasiness of mind; caused by apprehension of venture, danger or misfortune, a lack of confidence in delivery skills e.g. a fear of slight fault or defect. A self-indulgent inclination or liking as for a person’s own objects e.g. not the teams. Poor methods or performances in doing things: such as ways of accomplishing manoeuvers, planned and regulated movement or evolution of positional bowls in and around the head, luring or deceiving the opposition. Lack of knowledge in the branch of tactical knowledge and training that deals with science and engineering (biomechanics), or its practice, as applied to lawn bowls. Assertiveness: If you are being coached or in the process of being coached, have been reading the coaching articles presented to you in your club magazine over the past 24 months, your learning knowledge and efforts that you’ve been making to get your performance in a more stable state, will truly start to pay off now. Even if you’re not convinced, be as optimistic as you can about your competitive prospects this coming or next year’s pennants season. The more you believe that good news and results is on its way, the more likely it is to come. Of course, all

this assumes that you’re also putting in the hard work that’s required to make your improving assertiveness in the grades, teams, sides and the position you play in. Passage of thought: You can’t always tell what the other bowler is thinking. You aren’t infallibly psychic. Yet, every so often, you pick up on something. You get a sense of what they are feeling. Sometimes it comes to you so strongly that you just can’t shake it off. You’re now keenly conscious of a mood or a way which they may react. If you have the shot, you may be thinking of defence and recovery where as the opposition may be thinking of attack and recovery. Each one of you will not think of the same disposition when it comes to tactics. Many bowlers fail to understand the mindset of the opposition’s circumstances and fall into the trap of thinking what they themselves would do rather than thinking what the opposition would do, and this includes the opposition player who is delivering the next and subsequent bowl. Mindset: Don’t underestimate the importance of what’s happening. Don’t fear it either. Push may be coming to shove but that’s what’s needed. Think: big decisions are getting made; crucial turning points are being reached. Your alignment and length is impeccable, your timing is instinctive. No matter how much stress you may be under, or how anxious you may feel about something. Be realistic, move out of your comfort zone and don’t maintain that tactical mindset of mental tunneled vision. Look outside the square because there are more choices out there when using your defence, attack and recovery. The calibre of relative performances will yield a winning outcome, which is a bonus or reward for that particular effort. However the basic strategic-aim should be performance oriented, not win-oriented. Controlled manipulation: Many players are driven with the idea that they are only there to score or maintain the shot or shots. But another phase of the game is “controlled manipulation” which is used when the going gets tough and the tough need to get going! An example of this is as follows; when the opposing team has continuous tactical control of the head, as a whole, or by one or by two members. This is where every playing position in your team (lead, second, third and skip) is individually used in an act of allurement or deception by drawing the opposition into wasting bowls and playing particular types of shots. It is a reversing method of play, contrary to that which is usual, which alters the frequency or signals from one mode to another to execute a number of manoeuvers or variations to bring about or effect a rehearsed plan or scheme e.g. when the situation the opposition have created indicates to you an attacking mode you do the opposite by using a defensive mode such as covering, or inserting back-wood, drawing to save etc. Forcing them to either; defensively cover your back-wood bowls or, to attack the head or trail the jack into the open or into the ditch with on-shots, running-shot or drive shot. Your next tactical move will depend on the result of your first reversal play and the opposition’s preventive move, again for your second or third or fourth play where required, manipulating your modes of defence, attack and recovery. It’s a case of waiting for the opportunity to place in shots that will give your team possession of the head. Yes it’s an up and down form of play but you have to do something to get out of a trying situation. What is the best to end up a winner? Refuse to be daunted by the thought of losing. Whilst it’s true that many bowlers drive themselves to success through a fear of failure, such individuals can never fully allow themselves to relax. How can we seriously equate such a mental state with “winning”? What would happen if you were to drop all your anxiety about something going wrong? This wouldn’t make you careless. Your natural sense of responsibility is to strong for that. Being patient would just make a situation much easier. Dissension: We often see dissension occur in visiting teams, never our own, it is a disagreement of team members during the game that gives rise to discord. Discord itself indicates a lack of harmony between team members; they think differently, they strongly disagree and express loudly to an audience their disagreement to the established or orthodox tactics being used. They mentally refuse to accept the doctrine of an established method of play which rumbles when heard by their own team member’s interrupts the flow or continuity of the team’s concentration of play and the team’s performance may deteriorate quickly. The link between the human brain and the human mouth is not direct. It passes through a series of psychological safety filters. Or at least, it is supposed to! Perhaps it would be a better harmonious situation if they expressed indifferences of tactical play at their debriefing more often. But then, if you leave it too late, some of us think one thing one moment, and another the next. Just because you can’t see or hear vitriolic condemnation it doesn’t mean it’s not there. The best way to ensure its removal is through briefings and debriefings. In dissension how dreadful to be held responsible for a thoughtless utterance that could never be retracted.

The danger of showing and expressing emotions: During the game, we should never show or express our emotions particularly when things don’t tactically go our way, or when we fail to perfect our delivery of the jack or bowl. Believe it or not; thinking about it, expressing it or physically showing it, your emotions are likened to sand falling through the hour glass, as each grain falls so your performance deteriorates. Simultaneously it manifests “Murphy’s Law” e.g. “the maxim that anything that can go wrong will go wrong”. Displaying your emotions is an infectious mental disease that breaks down your mental toughness and your performance skills. This is borne out by your human actions as follows; We show it by facial expressions e.g. by grimacing (distort our face etc), Displaying it in our body actions e.g. lotus hands, clamped jaw and clenched teeth, throwing our arm up in despair or throwing objects on the ground, shaking our heads right and left, or drooping your shoulders with your head down, even berating yourself for the poor results, or expressing to one and all, either during or after the game your point of view on what you did wrong or what the opposition is doing, or did, that made your performance look bad. The only people who should show their feelings are the opposition and spectators, certainly not you! The thing you have to remember is no matter how slight, that showing your body emotions breaks down your mental toughness! You unconsciously tense your body and concentrate stronger than before; your body adrenaline builds up which when held long enough turns to anxiety, anxiety turns to despondency and all resulting in poor performance levels. A good description of despondency is the feeling you get when you go 3 to 8 down, or when the opposition continually plays in-off shots off your bowls for shot on each end. If not stopped with better positioned bowls, team members will gradually show signs of emotions as described above and the situation becomes infectious throughout the entire team and consequently the source of team play becomes a “Murphy’s Law team” e.g. as above, the maxim that anything that can go wrong will go wrong! You’ll blame yourself, the skip or your fellow team members if not openly you’ll do it under your breath! “Now where does it all begin?” It goes back in time to your childhood characteristic and teenager years when parents, guardians or tutors corrected things we did wrong, in plain words when you wanted to do something or go somewhere; it was your mental and physical reaction to obedience and discipline. When we see these reactions in bowlers we ignore it unless it is very blatant! When seen we often say they have not grown up yet, or they are going through their second childhood. “Self-discipline is the only cure to keeping cool, calm and collective.” When you achieve this type of success: stand tall, proud with good posture as if you have been doing it all day”. That’s the mental training which results in mental toughness. If bowlers didn’t have so many emotions, life would be so much easier and far more straightforward. We could all think clearly and show more composure. We could avoid letting our feelings colour our judgment and our memories cloud our minds. We would, of course, be a little robotic e.g. a bowler who works mechanically and efficiently but insensitively. Our lives would be seriously short of meaning but isn’t that a small price to pay during the game for efficiency? Be glad to know about the intensity that is stirred up by your emotional signs which effect mental toughness. Removing these experiencing traits is deeply worthwhile to your game performance. Special psychology: Special psychological skills relating to dissension, non conformity and showing emotions must be honed in during debriefings and correction pressed into service that ensures team members are listening carefully to us. We can’t just say “please pay attention,” or hope they will follow this kind of advice. We have to try to image the ways in which our words could be misinterpreted before we begin to express and test for any indifferences or raise questions that won’t cause too much offence. All this is important for you to reach a clear understanding before the team can go down that winning path. Instill patriotism: Its round up time for the Glenbrook Panthers Bowling Club, there is not one member of the committee who has not been involved in some way with the eligible pennants players, all of whom had volunteered their commitment to the pennants trials over and after the Christmas period. The Glenbrook Panthers selectors, manages, trainers and coaches will be thundering around the perimeter, rink by rink, inspired by the devoted efforts of the selected team members whom are regulating their lengths to short, medium and long ends, and of course, individual members displaying their flexibility and ability to play their draw shots, on-shots, running shots and the odd drive shots here and there. And of course in the middle of this the odd skip encouraging their teams yapping like it’s their youth days back again with little quips of “Come on, here we go, show me your assertiveness. With these sound of encouragement, the sooner we knit together, it will erase any past memories or thoughts of wooden spoons. Early bondage: In the production of trial games this is where they become better players. If they are not prepared once the season starts they haven’t done their job. As bowlers this is the time to become better team members,

this is where you get mentally bigger, faster, stronger and work on those skill that’s needed to be developed. Trial games create an early bondage, the more a team bonds together the more they perform as a team. During breaks prior and between trial games three types of training should take place e.g. physical, mental and game fitness should be forging friendship and a bond of trust that will ultimately determine their climb back up the district pennants ladder. But it’s that feeling of optimism and hope that should be indoctrinated let your positive performances instill club patriotism. Summary: We reap what we sow! Bowlers who lightly exercise every day grow stronger. Bowlers who regularly practice a skill become more adept. Bowlers who eat lightly before any competition become capable of physically moving more freely in their delivery action. Now the opposite to this is: Bowlers who indulge their anger grow more irritable. Bowlers who frequently criticize other find ever more reasons to be critical. Our thoughts and feelings are like seeds, “We reap what we sow”. To be a successful bowler, it is not necessary to have a clear grasp of philosophies and principles. The aspiring campaigner must learn how to make themselves seem trustworthy and believable. That ability doesn’t always come naturally. It takes hard work to acquire the social and psychological techniques that are likely to inspire others to have confidence in them. A spit-spat disagreement between you and someone else is not gamesmanship in essence. To counter it, simply involves mental toughness, the need to overcome an almost visceral misgiving. Think about it. If you curb your emotions and express them in the right place as indicated above, “In doing this, think what harmonization betterment does the year 2014 and 2015 hold for you”? “Let’s step forward not backwards”.

IN PENNANTS WE MUST REMEMBER WHO WE ARE AND WHO WE REPRESENT. IT’S ABOUT BEING THERE FOR OUR CLUB AS MUCH AS OUR CLUB BEING THERE FOR US!

Finalists in the Minor Singles

Championship.

Victor Emmanuel and Bede Thornton.

Victor took the title for the 2014 year

with a 31/10 win over Bede. The

spectators were entertained with some

fine bowling. However, Victor was too

good on the day.

Both players were congratulated on

their achievement and for the friendly

manner in which the final was played.

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