No, I didn’t spend the year with Claire, Faye, H, Lee and Lisa from the 1990s dance-pop quintet.
Can’t sing. Won’t dance.
But for that, I could have been there with them, on their 2021 arena tour…
But I have continued to record my activity via a Fitbit step counter. And the numbers don’t lie. I have been walking, a bit, in 2021, whether coaching, playing, or looking for cows.
(more…)Fascinating article from Cameron Ponsonby for espncricinfo.com, on why some quick bowlers are perceived by the batters to be “quicker than they look”.
Cameron’s article starts to unpack the phenomenon of the “heavy ball”, and why some bowlers manage to hustle the batters more than another bowler who looks to be bowling quicker.
But I think there are several clues for the inquisitive bowler or bowling coach looking to develop pace and variations.
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I was booked to run an after-school club this half term — an hour per week, yrs 7&8.
What follows is an outline of the programme and session plans, with an indication of the Objectives I was working towards.
N.B. Most of the “planning” was actually done on-the-fly.
I knew something of the School’s objectives in advance, and the session constraints we would be working to; I also knew what I wanted the players to experience, in terms of “skills” included, physical and psychological. But the actual “plan” came together on the way to the School each afternoon, and had to be flexible enough to be changed to accommodate e.g. fire alarms going off 5 minutes before the scheduled start time…
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