The club has fifteen certified coaches, all club members, who volunteer their time to coaching potential and new members, particularly in the early part of each season.
The head coach is Gary Robinson who can be contacted at 250 951 2286 250 951 2286. He will be pleased to arrange your coaching needs and to help iron out those bugs which every bowler faces as they learn to play the game.
Useful Information for Novices
Click here to view some of the (very) basics of lawn bowling. You will need sound on.
The following article provides another introduction to the basics of lawn bowling. Click here.
Athlete Development Program (ADP)
The ADP replaces what was referred to last year as Coaching Clinics and will be structured to cater for not only novices but all interested members. The program will combine performance standards, structured assessment and coaching opportunities, and individual practice routines to measure progress and achieve goals. The ADP will take place on Friday mornings, not Wednesdays as last year. Further details will be posted in March/April 2010.
PLBC Lesson Plans for Coaches
PLBC holds six half-day lessons in the last two weeks of April, before the regular season starts, for anyone interested in learning the game of bowls.
All novices attend these lessons at the same time. They are split into groups, each with their own coach. By having all students attend at the same time, the coaches can help each other and combine groups for mini drills and games. The lessons become a fun social and learning experience. It also allows all our novices to join the club at the same time and enjoy a full season of bowling. After completion of the lessons, when the novices attend their first few games with club members, they see some familiar faces who are at their level and do not find the game as intimidating.
Our coaches all use the same lesson plans, adapting as necessary, to accommodate for the physical capabilities of their students. In this manner we have standardized our coaching so that all novices can approach any coach with questions and will get the same response.
Please feel free to use and copy our Lesson Plans 1, 2, 3, 4,5 and 6. Any comments or suggestions to help us improve these lessons would be appreciated. Note:The above documents are in .pdf format which means that you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to be able to view, print or download them. The Reader is available free from the Adobe system web site. 