Lawn Bowls Delivery: The Grip | Technical Difficulties

Learning how to bowl? Need to tweak your current delivery? Coaching and need a good process of showing a delivery? Look no further!

This is the first installment of a 3 part series on Delivering a Lawn Bowl.

THE GRIP

Coach Darryl Fitzgerald shows off the do's and don'ts of a solid fundamentally sound grip that should help start off a perfect delivery!

Steps to the perfect grip:
- Relax your hand, natural spread of fingers - don't force anything!
- Place bowl so middle and ring fingers are the only fingers on the running surface
- Index and pinky fingers lay loosely on the grips
- Thumb is raised into the middle of the bowl on the side, not too high or too low
- Let the bowl roll off the two fingers on the running surface

Your grip should be comfortable, stress-free, and stable!

Thanks to Dan "The Delivery Doctor" Milligan for his coaching and support for bowls in Canada!

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[CanadianBowler]

Did this video help? Get any useful tips to try and work kinks out of your own delivery? Let us know what you think!

[billmccollam]

Great production work... sound was clear, graphics super and advice seemd sound

[DN-kzxl]

Thanks. I am a beginner. I felt uncomfortable with the "regulation" grip and this felt much more comfortable.

[malcolmrothery]

Thank you so much for this. I have never liked the claw grip, so I tried your more relaxed grip, and the results were spectacular. Suddenly the release was much better and I had much more feel for the weight of delivery. I had the most consistent game for a long while and we won the match! Thanks again.

[tonykiely]

Great video just began playing last year and love your style of presenting.

[malcolmwhyte]

That was great Darryl! Looking forward to watching the series.

[NiallMartin]

Been playing short may bowls for years and only realised from this video my grip has been wrong this whole time! Found a much more comfortable grip thanks to this and hopefully it improves my results 👍

[KentikKorua]

Thankyou so much, I'm a new bowler from PNG, I really learnt so much from all your helpful tips, I will try all these techniques thanks 👍👍

[piaajango]

I thank you for your prompt answer to my problem. My knee was operated on in 1980 after a tobogganing accident - ligament repair and partial meniscectomy. I had to stop playing tennis all together and have just started coaching sessions for lawn bowling. As it is a permanent injury I may be better off trying bowling left-handed as crouching while putting weight on the left knee hurts. Thanks again.

[michaeloreilly]

Great video, Darryl. Can’t wait to see the rest in the series. We will definitely re-share these going forward. 👏👏👏🙌🙌🙌👍👍👍

[sagiegovender]

I am starting bowls, excellent videos. Thank you Sir

[speedy]

Great learning curve for me. I have been doing it incorrectly for a long time.

[panthergpss]

Darryl, very well done. I posted it on our Facebook page last night and already have one member wanting more! Will continue to keep everyone informed.

[johanvoss]

Thank you, i see now i held it wrong, will try your way. Thanks.

[philfresle]

Very useful video. I've just started bowling and have found both the claw and cradle unsatisfactory and had reverted to something similar to your suggestion. I'll give your suggestion a crack at the weekend. Looking forward to the rest of the series, particularly your thoughts on bowl size.

[MichaelJones-ehvn]

Just started playing my first time on grass and found it very hard, couldn't get any distance on the bowl, I was jumped on because of my problems, hoping to put that right now with your help thank you.

[jinkertsun]

Good video. I’m using a size three but with my small hands I think I need to change to a size 2.

[markharvey]

Thanks for this…great vid. New player here in the Uk and still playing about with grip to find something I feel I can move forward with through the winter here and into next year. Hated the claw, prefer something more natural and tend to hold the bowl slightly off to one side (right as right handed player). Feel super comfy but can’t help but feel this can’t be a good thing long term. Will try out your suggestions next practice! Looking forward to the release video! Cheers

[geoffbrassington]

Hi great videos. You mention about doing a video about bowls size and knowing if they are too big or small. Any chance you can do one? Kind regards Geoff.

[kazzy]

That was so helpful, thank you! I’m very new to bowling but loving it so far. 🥰. You mentioned in the video about choosing the correct size and weight of bowl. I can’t see a video on it on your channel - can you give me any advice on how to decide on the right size and weight please? Thanks in advance. X