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	<title>Performance Lawn Bowls</title>
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	<description>Lawn bowls coaching tips, tutorials, news and articles. All you need to improve your outdoor bowling game. Includes the new GT for lawn bowls</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Lawn Bowls Margin of Error</title>
		<link>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/training/lawn-bowls-margin-of-error/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macka</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Training</category>
	<category>Skill Evaluation</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction: In lawn bowls the coach is often required to determine the major problem in the player’s delivery skill; or be asked “Is the player improving?” ”Is the player consistent enough to play in the team or side?” “How can he or she improve their delivery skill when delivering to the edge of the ditch or the side of the rink? The answers to these questions and problems are made much easier when the coach combines the player’s margin of error with his own visual observations.]]></description>
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		<title>Delegation</title>
		<link>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/mackas-monthly-coaching-clinic/delegation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macka</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Macka's Coaching Clinic</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delegation: Delegation is essentially subsidiary or procedural power of an enactment of which allows a performance to be achieved by individuals or groups of bowlers particularly in the team and side environment. The skip doesn’t and can’t do everything; at times the team or side must function effectively without their skips. For this to happen, however, decisions must be continuously made about what to delegate prior to, during and after events. Delegation is a tool that aligns duties for maximum performance and skill training, at the same time avoid mental overload and physical burnout of team or side members.]]></description>
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		<title>DECISION MAKING</title>
		<link>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/mackas-monthly-coaching-clinic/decision-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macka</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Macka's Coaching Clinic</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction: In lawn bowls; decision making is concerned with using the perceptual information about what is tactically occurring around the individual or team in relation to the disposition of the game and the state and configuration of their own mind to determine what response, if any, is needed. The process of selection in what to do is influenced, and limited, by a number of key factors including; the number of decisions that can be made, the number of response options from which to select, the total game time available for decision making and the response time associated with re-establishing control after making incorrect decisions.]]></description>
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		<title>AN ANALYSIS OF THE ACQUISITION</title>
		<link>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/training/skill-evaluation/an-analysis-of-the-acquisition/</link>
		<comments>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/training/skill-evaluation/an-analysis-of-the-acquisition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macka</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Skill Evaluation</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[INTRODUCTION: An Analysis of the Acquisition is very much to the forefront of learning in lawn bowls and in this article we focus on the cognitive phase such as the perception of the learning process, the associative phase pertaining to or resulting from the skill association and the autonomous phase which is the process or act of automating the performance skill within the subconscious mind. This also includes; what should be learnt, the consideration of some key factors which affect skill acquisition, and the consolidation of training which coaches and bowlers should make in structuring the practice environment in order to optimize skill acquisition. ]]></description>
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		<title>MENTAL, GAME AND PHYSICAL FITNESS</title>
		<link>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/mackas-monthly-coaching-clinic/mental-game-and-physical-fitness/</link>
		<comments>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/mackas-monthly-coaching-clinic/mental-game-and-physical-fitness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 06:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macka</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Macka's Coaching Clinic</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coaches and players must have a good understanding of the three different types of fitness required for competitive lawn bowls. These are mental, game and physical fitness which involves; learning to control your mental senses, atonement of the muscular system to the delivery technique and the required physical endurance for long standing periods, often in hot or cold condition, which in all coordinated to a peak allows the require undisturbed flow of high levels of mental concentration.]]></description>
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		<title>SENTENTIAL WORDS FOR GAME  BRIEFINGS, DEBRIEFINGS AND TRAINING FOR LAWN BOWLS</title>
		<link>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/general/sentential-words-for-game-briefings-debriefings-and-training/</link>
		<comments>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/general/sentential-words-for-game-briefings-debriefings-and-training/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macka</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
	<category>Mental Toughness</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[INTRODUCTION: The conduct of game briefings, debriefings and training is designed for the harmonious communication link marked by agreement in feeling and action forming a pleasing consistent whole so that each player in his or her playing position is prepared and knows what each and every team member has to do in the process of the game.]]></description>
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		<link>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/general/156/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macka</dc:creator>
		
	<category>General</category>
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		<title>DEALING WITH DIFFICULT TEAM MEMBERS</title>
		<link>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/mental-toughness/dealing-with-difficult-team-members/</link>
		<comments>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/mental-toughness/dealing-with-difficult-team-members/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 09:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macka</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Mental Toughness</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[INTRODUCTION: No matter what team position you play in or how you are connected with the teams, you’re bound to meet that “colourful difficult character” who can make your job challenging. There is no question that learning to deal with them will prove critical to your success within the team environment.   ]]></description>
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		<title>SENSORY AWARENESS AND MANAGEMENT</title>
		<link>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/mackas-monthly-coaching-clinic/sensory-awareness-and-management/</link>
		<comments>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/mackas-monthly-coaching-clinic/sensory-awareness-and-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macka</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Macka's Coaching Clinic</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In lawn bowls sensory awareness is an exercise involving precise coordination of the neuromuscular system of the body. The success of this coordination obviously depends on accurate sensory information and feedback; so it is important to realise that the key to improved performance lies in developing personal control over what particular sensory mode, internal or external, you choose to pay attention to at any given moment. ]]></description>
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		<title>Types of Skips and the Continuum</title>
		<link>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/selection/skip-selection/types-of-skips-and-continuum/</link>
		<comments>http://performancelawnbowls.com/index.php/selection/skip-selection/types-of-skips-and-continuum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>macka</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Skip Selection</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leadership: Success in leadership depends ultimately on how well and how effectively the skip interacts with the team. Leadership in its simplest sense is the capacity of the skip to direct and coordinate the positional abilities of the team by the use of tactical manoeuvres combined with the employment in attack, defence and recovery. It is essentially a position of power, but in lawn bowls demands consent and compliance from talented and highly individualistic bowlers. Leadership style will vary according to the personality of the skip and the playing standard of the team. ]]></description>
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