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Turn the 7 Into a 9. Leave the 1 Alone. You’ll love me for saying it. (opens the original)
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Every bowler I speak with at this time of year asks me some version of the same question. What should I work on this winter?And almost everybody answers it from a place of how they are feeling. Most people remember the bad days more clearly than the good ones, so you end up choosing whatever went wrong most recently and building a whole winter around it.There’s a better way to decide, and it takes about twenty minutes.<a class="button primary" href="https://sbconsulting.substack.com/p/turn-the-7
End of season (opens the original)
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If You Train Like a Medium Pacer, You’ll Become One (opens the original)
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Here’s what a club training session usually looks like.An hour. Bowlers bowl, batters bat.We timed this properly at first class level once. Off a full run-up, bowling in pairs, a bowler gets through roughly 1.2 balls a minute.So an hour of continuous bowling is somewhere around a ten over spell.Two questions worth sitting with.How many bowlers do you know who bowl ten over spells? Maybe a few out there at senior level.And across those seventy-odd balls, how many were you genuinely focused on?I’l
Come On, Let’s Hit the Box (opens the original)
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Nets Are the Only Place You Can Fail Twenty Times and Go Home Happy (opens the original)
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