If this works for teaching javelin (and I’m sure it does), perhaps there is something here for bowling?
I often see young cricketers struggle with “bowling from base” – they miss the all-important rotation from a basically side-on base to front-on release when there is no inherent forward motion – and the step-by-step approach might help to get them through this.
I’ll have to try this out – perhaps starting from “withdraw & throw”…with a straight arm, of course!
I took some video footage last week – any thoughts on what this “young” bowler might want to work on?
This wasn’t meant to be an exercise in self-analysis, however – rather, I wanted to try out a camera and techniques for filming a bowler in action, and then to generate some footage to practice video analysis.
But perhaps the most interesting thing to come out of the exercise was the insight into what a player would see when I demonstrate a skill. I can’t say that I would want anyone to try to copy (all of) my bowling action, after seeing it in this clip!
I wrote a couple of months ago about Fred Trueman’s bowling action, and how there might be a lesson for modern bowling coaches.
So I was very interested to see this tweet from @DennisCricket, and the picture of Fred in full stride.
Love this pic of Fred Trueman. The first man to take 300 Test wickets. pic.twitter.com/xW1dJQXZdS
— Dennis Does Cricket (@DennisCricket_) August 15, 2015