Time | Drill | Focus | Mat Length/s | Bowls | Groups | Instructions |
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10mins | Bowl to ditch | Technique | 5m up from T facing ditch | 4 | Individual | -players bowl 12 FH and 12 BH from the mat to the ditch. |
-players work on developing a pre-bowl routine and staying down. | ||||||
10 mins | Roll the Jack | Jack Rolling | min/med/max | 1 jack | Pairs | -players have a mat each and one jack. |
-the player with the jack, rolls it to their partner trying to land within a mat of their partners mat. | ||||||
-jack rolls continue and players adjust their mat lengths. | ||||||
15 mins | Draw to ditch | Draw | min/med to ditch | 4 | Pairs | -player bowl 4 bowls and the drill is repeated at various lengths |
-players bowl trying to land their 4 bowls between the T and the ditch | ||||||
-short bowls and bowls in the ditch are not counted | ||||||
15 mins | Front End Game Plan | Game Plan | min/med/max | 2 | Pairs | -players bowl two bowls in a row |
-Pairs work together to achieve the game plan e.g. two within a mat and one behind | ||||||
-drill is repeated up and back the green at various lengths. | ||||||
30 mins | Front End Game Plan Competitive | Game Plan | min/med/max | 2 | Pairs | -players bowl two bowls in a row against another pair |
-Pairs work together to achieve the game plan e.g. two within a mat and one behind | ||||||
-Pairs keep score once all bowls have been bowled. | ||||||
-drill is repeated up and back the green at various lengths. | ||||||
15 mins | Cluster | Draw | any length | 4 | Individual + Pairs | Draw a ML from the first bowl and each subsequent delivery |
Work with a partner at other end, Draw a ML beyond the front bowl and each subsequent delivery beyond a ML, however partner returns every delivery until you get ML distance each delivery | ||||||
Draw two (2) ML beyond the front bowl and each subsequent delivery beyond 2 ML | ||||||
15 mins | Various Weight | Weight | any length | 4 | Individual + Pairs | Place 4 bowls on CDs a metre apart, draw to caterpillar first bowl and only when successful draw to second, etc, third, etc fourth |
now in order from bowl 1-4, successfully wrest out each bowl from CD (remove delivered and displaced bowl to enable access to the next CD bowl) | ||||||
now drive each bowl starting from the front placed bowl in order to the back placed bowl (remove and bowl obstructing your next drive) | ||||||
30 mins | Back of the queue | Weight | Various lengths | 2 | Individually | Set 15-20 mats (circuits) diagonally from one corner to diagonally opposite corner; |
Start from a corner 2m mark to maximum length on green; | ||||||
Using only 2 bowls see how many of the 15-20 circuits have one of two deliveries within ML of ditch | ||||||
15 mins | All Rounder | Weight + draw | min + med | 4 | Individual + Pairs | Choose your length, set up a jack on the tee, players bowl 4 bowls trying to achieve the 4 objectives |
1 – draw within a ML. 2 – trail the jack without going into the ditch. 3 – trail the jack into the ditch. | ||||||
4 – draw within a ML | ||||||
15 mins | Phantom Singles | weight or draw | min/med/max | 4 | Individual | Choose your length, players bowl 4 bowls trying to achieve the objective – draw, mat over or drive |
Each time a player achieves the objective they get a point | ||||||
Each time the player misses the objective the Phantom gets a point | ||||||
10 mins | Beat Your Bowl | Weight | any length | 4 | Individual | Bowl your first bowl along an aiming line |
Bowl your second, third and fourth along the same aiming line trying to beat the previous by adding weight. | ||||||
Repeat the process but beat your previous bowl by taking way the weight. | ||||||
20 mins | First to 7 | Utility | any length | 4 | Pairs | Choose your objective e.g. draw within a mat and you get one point eachtime you schieve the objective |
Player A bowls four bowls trying to achieve the objective, Player B bowls four bowls trying to achieve the objective | ||||||
Player A and Player B repeat the process first to get seve points wins. | ||||||
30 mins | Progressive Snake | Utility | any length | 4 | Individual | Setup a snake course where each drill is a progression of the previous drill e.g. beat one bowl the beat two bowls |
Players work their way through the snake trying to achieve each objective | ||||||
30 mins | Three lengths, three objectives | Weight + draw | min/med/max | 4 | Pairs | Players bowl 4 bowls at each length three times (12 bowls at each length) |
The first objective is draw to a line, the second objective is 1m over the line, the third objective is over the line and loose your bowl | ||||||
Extension: play a singles game against your partner at the three lengths | ||||||
20 mins | Singles – Sets Play | Uility | any length | 4 | Singles | Play four bowl singles across two sets (nominate ends) |
If players both win a set, play a one end tiebreaker | ||||||
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