NATURAL BORN BOWLER

CONFIDENCE One of the most important things if you want to play bowls to any reasonable level is to try and play with confidence, and if you have enough belief in your own ability then you will always have a chance of playing well. But, there's a big difference between playing well and winning. The first and most important thing you need to find in your game is consistency in line and length because consistency breeds confidence. And confidence comes from mentality. Do you feel confident before a match? Well, if you go into the game with a negative attitude then you are building a mental block in your own mind before you've even started, and that will not help you to feel confident. In fact, you are waiting for things to go wrong before they go right and when that happens you lose the right mental approach to be able to play well, and then you start to struggle. Confidence can be very difficult to have to find and it has a lot to do with performance because if you are not scoring then you are going to be low on confidence. So, how am I going to change that? Well, if you are not playing well then there must be a reason for it so you examine your game, find out what you are doing wrong, and work on correcting the weakness because that's what your opposition will be looking for. Matchplay is all about finding out your opponent's weakness because if you can do that then you can use it to your advantage. For example, does my opponent always play short? Or is he a long player? Does he play quickly or slowly? There are so many variables to Crown Green Bowling which is what makes it a great sport to play.