Welcome to Performance Lawn Bowls
Your online lawn bowls coaching resource
This site has been developed by Macka Jensen to provide a continually updated source of lawn bowls coaching materials
Whether your’re just getting started or an old pro; you’ll find bowls tutorials, news, articles and tips on a wide range of topics to help you improve and develop your game.
Make sure you bookmark this site so you can keep up to date with Macka’s Monthly Coaching Clinic.
For those of you in Australia; if you’re interested in receiving basic or specialised high performance coaching utilising many of the methods mentioned in Performance Lawn Bowls, then please contact us.
No coach or lawn bowls coaching program can “do it all for you”. Something will always come up in the game that’s not in the “book”. Hopefully you can use these tips and suggestions and improve your game but, regardless of the outcome - enjoy your bowls.
Recent Lawn Bowls News
- Liberty Bowl lawn bowling event (Hot Springs Village Voice)
The Village Green Bowls Club held its annual Liberty Bowl lawn bowling tournament recently. The event started with 16 bowlers matched in eight one on one games with the eight winners moving on to round two. After round two, the four remaining winners, Barbara Mulley, Earl Mulley, Evelyn Wheatcroft and Lyle Wheatcroft were left to bowl for the championship. - Yih Hwa bags OCM award for her contribution to lawn bowls (The Star)
KUALA LUMPUR: For her tireless contribution to the sport of lawn bowls, Choo Yih Hwa was last night declared winner of this year’s Olympic Council of Malaysia’s (OCM) Women and Sport Award. - Paralympians mix it up with the able bodied (The New Straits Times)
SPORTSUNITE'S effort to promote unity through sports continued last weekend with the help of the Malaysian Paralympic Lawn Bowlers Association (MPLBA) where for the first time a lawn bowls carnival was held involving the able bodied and paralympic bowlers in a 'mixed fours' event that saw 20 teams competing.
Recent Articles On This Site
The Shots of Bowls : Running Shot Part 2
The Running Shot is distinct from the Drive Shot. It can bend up to 60 cm to 1m on its course……..
Drive Shot : The Drive Part 2
The drive is a Defensive or attacking shot………..
Macka’s Coaching Clinic : States of Confidence
Behaviour - Mind Over Matter : Fear and Frustration
In lawn bowls, fear and frustration are emotions that occur in situations where one is blocked from reaching a personal goal. The more emphasis placed on the goal the greater the fear and frustration of loosing.
On-Shots : Bowling the 4m On-Shot
To trail the jack 4m to the edge of the rink without losing the bowl if the shot misses the target……
On-Shots : Bowling the 3m On-Shot
The bowl is delivered towards an aiming point on the aiming line 3 with enough weight so that if the target is missed……
On-Shots : Bowling the 2m On-Shot
To trail the jack 2m through the head, or take a bowl or bowls from the head, or to split two bowls……
On-Shots : Bowling the 1m On-Shot
The aim is to wrest a bowl out of the head, trail the jack through the head, retain the bowl close to the head or promote a short bowl…….
