Pre-Season Preparation
How time flies! Winter Social Bowls wraps up at the end of the month then it’s onwards and upwards for season 2024/25. Many of you have been out playing and practicing while others have enjoyed the break catching up with family and friends. Others have sought warmer climates, although northern Australia has been a little cooler and wetter than usual.
- Margret Lambert (KMBC President)
Coaching
Coaches, Mentors and Aspiring Coaches Meeting!
On the back of a very successful season we are intent on building on our success through building up our coaching panel to support all our players.
To this end there is a meeting for all current accredited coaches, mentors and aspiring coaches on Thursday 15th August at the club 10-11.30am. At this meeting we will plan for the season ahead and build a consistent approach to our player support.
If you are interested in finding out more about this meeting or attending, please contact Greg Miller on 0409 880 356 or greg.miller995@gmail.com
Becoming a coach is a great way to find out how to improve your own bowling skill as well as supporting other club members.
See you there!
- Greg Miller (Coaching Coordinator)
August is your Pre-season
As the days become longer and the weather improves it’s a great time to get your game in order for the upcoming season! Start your personal preseason now and hit the season running! The best approach is to make sure you are drawing confidently and that technique is sound.
Draw bowling is the most used and therefore the most important skill. Do a block training which is at least 3 times a week for 3 weeks. A typical training session includes drawing to minimum, maximum and mid length jacks. Then move on to off centre jacks and more than one target with a single bowl to each. Finish with off centre jacks near the ditch. In every drill always strive to get two bowls within a mat from the target.
High improvers always challenge themselves appropriately. This means that you try challenges that are around 15% harder than you can manage comfortably. For example, if you can draw two or three bowls out of four to a jack at a particular length then you move on to two jacks about 2 metres apart and draw two bowls to each. Your success rate is to get three bowls within a mat from the target. Or you may set the jack off centre instead of on the line.
The interesting thing about high improvers is that they also challenge themselves early in their practice rather than towards the end when they are more tired. Thinking about the practice regime I suggested above, you could reverse the order of training and start with off centre jacks near the ditch!
The research around improvement shows that regularly practicing challenges around 15% harder than you can achieve comfortably is that your improvement skyrockets! And it’s not just the more difficult skills that you improve but interestingly the basic draw bowl to the centre line also improves dramatically by practicing more demanding skills!
Please keep the winter challenge results coming through by emailing me at greg.miller995@gmail.com or send me a photo of your score card by message to 0409 880 356!
- Greg Miller (Coaching Coordinator)
Club Training
Kookaburras Pennant Season Training
Club Training begins on Tuesday 3 September at 9-11am and continues throughout the season, including finals. All bowlers are welcome!
Trial Games - Internal and External
David has organised several trial games with other clubs for women, men and open gender. Please save the dates. Dates are following:
- Saturday 7 September will be the first internal trial game. Training will start at 10am with a trial game to follow starting at 12.30.
- Saturday 14 September against Payneham venue TBD is the first game
Women’s trial games
- Thursday September 19 against West Lakes at West Lakes beginning at 9.30am
- Thursday September 26 at home against Sturt beginning at 10am
Men’s trial games
- Wednesday September 25 at home against Clarence Gardens beginning at 12.15pm 1 x 5 rinks and 1 x 3 rinks.
- Wednesday October 2 against Sturt. Venue TBA
Open Gender
- Saturday September 14 against Payneham. Venue TBD
- Saturday September 28 against Clarence Gardens at Clarence Gardens 9.30am.2 x 4 rinks and 2 x 3 rinks.
- Saturday October 5 against Tranmere. Games will be at both clubs with further arrangements nearer the day.
There may be more trial games. Throughout last season Greg asked bowlers to identify specific skills they wished to improve. Her followed up with suggested activities for practice. Please give some thought on what aspects of your bowling you wish to improve this year.
- Margret Lambert (KMBC President)
Umpire Accreditation
There is a session on Sunday September 29 for umpires seeking re-accreditation.
- Margret Lambert (KMBC President)
Redlegs 2024 Major Lottery
Our sponsor, the Norwood Football Club has teamed up with our Bowling club for their 2024 Major Lottery and they will equally share all revenue raised by tickets purchased through our Bowling club. There are some fantastic prizes totaling $66,915.00 on offer and tickets are just $5 each.
What this means is if we sell 1000 tickets, we raise $2500.00 for our club, 2000 tickets and it is $5000.00 raised and so on. This is a great opportunity to raise considerable funds for our club and we hope you can help by purchasing tickets. Who knows you just might win yourself a brand-new Mazda 2 or one of the other 20 fantastic prizes on offer.
For more information go to our news article: NEWS: Norwood-Football-Club-2024-Major-Lottery
To have a chance to win and help raise money for your bowling club just click on the following link (or copy and paste into your browser).
- Purchase Tickets Here: Norwood Football Club 2024 Major Lottery (raffletix.com.au)
Happy Hour Drinks and Nibbles Plus Indoor Bowls (16 Aug)
Come along for drinks, nibbles and a roll on the carpet, no experience needed, and all bowls are supplied. Please add your name to the list on the board so we can form teams and order pizza if wanted.
- 5:30 pm - Happy Hour as usual
- 6:30 pm - Pizzas will be served as ordered
- 7:00 pm - Mixed gender teams (short games with a prize for best team)
Friday Night Meal (23 Aug)
The next Friday meal will be Friday 23rd August 2024. The menu is Lasagne and Salad followed by Dessert. Cost is $20 per head. Please have your names on the list by Wednesday 21st August 2024.
Helpers team 1 please that’s JY,JB,LC,MP. Bad luck to Paula B who missed winning the members draw jackpot last Friday as she wasn’t there. It is worth coming on the 23 August for the new $jackpot.
- Ken Mason
Bowls Season Opening Dinner (20 Sept)
Come and join us in celebrating KMBC’s season opening. Always a most enjoyable night. Welcome to members and guests at 6pm after that there is an official opening of the shades.
Dinner will be tables of 8 at $25 per head for 2 courses with full payment on the night. Vegetarian and Vegan meals are available on request.
Current singles champions Heather Garnett and Greg Miller will then roll the first jack and bowl to get season 2024/25 underway.
- Margret Lambert (KMBC President)
Ladies Halloween Gala Day (28 Oct)
This fabulous tournament will be held at our Club on 28 October 2024 with a 9.30am for 10am start.
- Game Format: Ladies 3 Game Rolling Triples.
- Entry: $90 per team (single entries welcome)
- Lunch and Nibbles included.
- $4000 Prize Money
- Registration to Brian Dew - 0439 312 564
- Dress Code: Halloween
- Download the Ladies Gala Day flyer
Make sure you register a team and come along and enjoy the day.
- Tania Lewis (Tournament Co-ordinator)
Social Media
Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook and Instagram and remember, photos for all bowling club activities and events are most welcome.
Sponsors
Please remember that when you visit one of our club sponsors to let them know you are from the Kensington Marryatville Bowling Club so they know their sponsorship is worthwhile. Sponsors play a vital role in the future of our bowling club so please be sure to support them whenever you can. Anyone who has an idea about a potential sponsor please approach anyone on the committee to share your ideas.
Bowls Newsletter 12/08/24