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Lawn bowls coaching - rapid technique improvement routine

This lawn bowls coaching skills course on CD-ROM is an advanced sports coaching skills course or coach development course designed for experienced lawn bowls coaches and players, at all levels from beginner to elite.

Old Way New Way^® lawn bowls coaching can enrich your coaching experience and improve your coaching effectiveness.

 

Lawn bowls coaching: Reviews of Old Way New Way^® coaching

Old Way New Way^® sports coaching received a very positive review in Sports Coach, 2003, Vol. 25, No.4 (an extract appears below).

Sports Coach is Australia's national sports coaching journal, aimed at the practising sports coach.

Produced quarterly, Sports Coach presents up-to-date sports coaching articles on a variety of topics, ranging from interviews, sports coaching drills and nutrition to research results in a wide range of sports. Sports Coach is an excellent periodical for the active sports coach.

Old Way New Way^®, by Graham Cook (extracts from Sports Coach)

It is one of the most perplexing and frustrating obstacles any coach has to face; without warning and often without apparent reason, the athlete they are coaching goes into a form slump.

Hitherto excellent techniques, often carefully refined over years of hard work are lost, to be replaced by persistent and stubborn errors that refuse to respond to correction.

In the past, this has usually resulted in a long and destructive regime of constant repetition of skill drills aimed at driving the offending error from the athlete's repertoire....  [However] the correct technique, apparently recovered after constant practice, disappears under the pressure of competition....

A different approach ... enthusiastically endorsed by a growing number of coaches and sporting professionals, is Old Way New Way^®, which aims to put the athlete back on the right path, not within months or weeks, but possibly after one intensive session....

... one of the most spectacular examples of Old Way New Way^®'s success [is] cricketer Jason Gillespie [who] needed to change his bowling action .... he was able to change a major part of his bowling action in about 20 minutes....

... Olympic [athletes], a javelin thrower and a sprinter, were in a form slump associated with technique problems .... both problems were corrected ....

While an experienced [Old Way New Way^®] practitioner is needed initially, there is no reason why coaches should not quickly learn the subtleties of the method and introduce it when required.

 

Research Institute for Olympic Sports

Professor Yuri Hanin, Professor of Sport Psychology at the Research Institute for Olympic Sports in Finland, says this about the online sports coaching course in Old Way New Way^®, on which the CD-ROM course is based.

"I've been using Old Way New Way^® for rapid correction of consistent errors in technique with track and field athletes (javelin, hammer throwing and sprinting), with a pro-tour female golfer, and also with a soccer team. All nine interventions were very successful. At the same time, we collaborated with Paul to advance our research into skill development and correction with elite athletes and still do."

"There are several benefits that I have experienced using Old Way New Way^®. It is very practical; the technical problem is solved quickly and completely in just one single session; the results are immediate, there is no adaptation period as with conventional skill development and correction."

"Moreover, the observed technique improvement is permanent and extends into psychological benefits such as feelings of empowerment, enhanced self-confidence, satisfaction with the elimination of errors, better understanding, higher motivation and a desire to engage in more high quality training of this kind. A single learning trial lasting from one to two hours, including an half hour warm up, usually results in 80% or better improvement in performance. The new way (corrected skill) is consistently performed and spontaneous recovery of errors, if any, is easily handled. Skill improvement also directly transfers to competitive performance, as shown in our case studies [with Olympic athletes and their coaches - read The Sport Psychologist, 2002, 16, 79-99]. Under conventional skill correction methods, technique difficulties still resisted correction after months and, in some cases, years of effort."

 

Lawn bowls technique improvement routine: What's in it for me?

Old Way New Way^® lawn bowls coaching is well grounded in psychological learning theory and is verified by published experimental research in refereed professional journals. Furthermore, the record of its success in practical situations stands unrivaled.

The course will provide you with information, demonstrations, and step by step instructions so you can quickly start using Old Way New Way^® to accelerate a player's learning.

You will learn the fascinating theoretical background of Old Way New Way; discover how it has been used to quickly correct technique and other performance problems in sport; see a step by step demonstration of its use with a bowls player; learn to prepare your own skill correction protocols that you can use in many different bowls coaching situations; and learn how to use Old Way New Way^® to speed up technique correction, recover quickly from performance slumps, and accelerate skill transitions.

 

Lawn bowls technique improvement routine contents

• review of Old Way New Way^® coaching by the Australian Sports Commission in Sports Coach, their national journal for active sports coaches
• course introduction, learning objectives, and rationale for the course structure
• background reading for the practical assignments, with a self administered test of understanding of the main concepts, accompanied by model answers
• demonstration of a brain mechanism that slows down change and improvement, and makes old habits die hard
• a practical assignment that teaches you the steps in Old Way New Way^® Coaching
• practical assignments that guide you, step by step, to use Old Way New Way^®, first to change your own behaviour and sport performance, and then to improve a bowls player's performance
• a video that shows you, step by step, how this was actually done
• a generic Old Way New Way^® protocol template that you can modify to suit many different kinds of technique correction and other performance problems in bowls
• stepwise comparison of Old Way New Way^® and conventional bowls coaching, so you can quickly understand where they overlap, and see the important differences
• case studies of how Old Way New Way^® has improved performance in other sports, including Olympic javelin and sprinting, swimming, golf, cricket, lacrosse, baseball, soccer, football, and running
• examples of how Old Way New Way^® has been used in physical therapy, and its use to accelerate the learning of mental skills in bowls
• how to use Old Way New Way^® for skill transition training
• list of published research that underpins this methodology
• implementation support options, including e-consultation, an online course, and on-site consultation
• details of optional collaboration on research using Old Way New Way^®

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Lawn bowls coaching - rapid technique improvement courses

Choose from these four rapid technique improvement course formats, from AU$33 to $395.

Lawn bowls coaching: Full course including video

CD ROM containing full text including a video demonstration (AU$59. Currency conversion). Order form.

Lawn bowls coaching: Downloaded course without video

Downloaded file containing full text including a transcript of the video demonstration but no video (AU$33. Currency conversion). Order form.

Lawn bowls coaching: Online course

Online coach development course includes all course material on CD ROM including the video, plus step-by-step guidance and support in a course that is customised just for you (AU$395. Currency conversion). More information. Order form.

Lawn bowls coaching: Coach development workshop

One-day rapid technique correction workshop tailor made for lawn bowls coaches from beginner to elite level. More information.

Improving too slowly?

Sports coaches and players try to get it right the first time but invariably end up spending a lot of time trying to correct technique faults and bad habits that somehow develop.

Once established, habit pattern errors like technique faults are notoriously hard to correct because they actually disable learning of correct technique and slow down or completely block improvement. This makes an athlete uncompetitive and can lead to a career-threatening performance slump.

The typical advice to practice skill drills and train hard is usually not very effective. The athlete may appear to improve during training but repeatedly falls back to old ways under pressure of competition.

Transfer of training from skills coaching sessions and practice drills to competition is consequently poor.

Transition training, required when the athlete has to change over to a new code, new equipment, new techniques or new rules, presents similar adjustment difficulties. Old habits die hard.

Fortunately, a coaching science discovery called Old Way New Way^® Sports Coaching offers:

1. A new perspective on the transfer of training problem.

2. A cost-effective and user-friendly method for rapid skill and technique correction, and habit correction.

3. A fast and practical method of sports transition training.

This page explains how established and habitual technique faults can interfere with skill development and learning of correct technique.

This page describes our lawn bowls coaching routine for rapid technique correction using Old Way New Way.^®