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-== Cricket ==
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-Episode 1: Batting
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-Get into the habit of setting yourself up for each ball. Think of it like a pre-flight routine in the cockpit -it also helps knuckle down and get focused on the ball and blot out distractions. The sports psychologists call this "self talk" - a little motto you say to yourself.
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-For now it is stance-balance-anchor.
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-Stance (guard- I would say back toe on middle or middle and leg - no further; and openness - front toe on leg stump - so you're not too closed off to shots on the on side.
-Balance: with your bat up, have a stable base. Head level, over your hands. Flex your knees a bit. You should be able to resist falling over if someone gently barges you. The key is to retain this balance at all times through whatever shot you play. For front foot shots you do that by keeping your head over the hands, hands over the ball, and foot to the ball.
-We'll work on back foot shots later: on local wickets the main problem you'll have is with a low ball and a lack of bounce. So front foot has got to be solid.
-Problem with the nets is that they bounce a lot so there's a great temptation to stand back. London grass wickets don't play like that!
-Anchor:  If you're on the front foot, your back foot is your rock. It has to stay put. This does a couple of things:
--If the ball is going down leg, let it go there: it's no danger to you, and offers (almost) risk free runs: if you miss it, a wide or byes (the keeper is unsighted - you are in the way!); If you get anything on it at least one run; if fine leg isn't paying attention, four.
--if the ball's outside off, it's your platform. A lot of your power comes from driving your legs off that base.
-So: remember the "landmine". Your back foot is on the trigger. Step off and it goes off.
-If you step away down leg you convert that risk-free legside ball into a risky one it's hard to score from, and you expose all three stumps to a ball that's on target, and you're off balance, "hanging out the washing" just to get anything on the bat at all.
-These are the core things to work on for now. If you get this "grooved in" so you do it without thinking about it, you're well on the way.
-You can do some of this stuff in your living room. Lunge forward, pivoting of your back foot, to leg, straight, and to off, and hold the pose at the end of each lunge - if you're balanced you will have no trouble doing that.
-Next time we'll look at getting  your head and that front foot coming out to the line of the ball - then we can look at your bat swing and grip, but first thing is to get the base sorted out.
- [[User:Amwelladmin|Amwelladmin]] ([[User talk:Amwelladmin|talk]]) 03:12, 6 February 2017 (CST)
-== Bowling ==
-Episode 2: bowling
-Working points:
-- A consistent, regular run up where you are hitting the same point on the bowling crease every ball.
-- punching that left arm high and to the right of your left eye, so you are looking right down the line of your shoulder to the wickets.
-The run up is all about rhythm - the NMCC net is too short and encourages bad habits. You must must must mark out a run and religiously use it. Self talk again: "mark", "rhythm" and "punch".
-When it turns a bit warmer we'll work something out on the grass, maybe 8 or 12 steps longer. At the moment we have only 8 steps to work with, so concentrate on balance (again) approaching the creases in a straight line, and with as much rhythm as you can muster in 8 paces. You are good in that you don't have a stutter or anything like that. Keep it that way. Maybe look to pump your arms a bit. I like to think of the run up as a steam train, gathering pace and momentum and channelling all your energy straight down the track at that off stump.
-Look to get a bit nearer to the stumps - improve your odds of lbw bowling wicket-to-wicket.
-When we get outside, I'll be looking to get you going the crease write a lot faster than you do now. With a longer run up, you should be working up to maybe 60-70pc full sprinting pace.
-This does three things-
--gets you a five more kmh, just from running faster
--gets you more air and accentuates the trebuchet effect when you do hit that crease
--Scares the wits out of the batsman. Never underestimate the psychological aspects of the game! If he's thinking "hell's bells!" when you're charging in, he's not thinking about his shot.
-The punch: what does this do?
--Takes you from your front-on running position, where shoulders and hips are (necessarily) square to the wicket, to the bowling position, where shoulders and hips are aligned right down the wicket at off stump, while keeping that steam train momentum you've just worked up
--fully extends your "crane" so you get maximum leverage when you let the ball go
--gets you up on the air. The higher you go, the harder you hit the front of the crease, the bigger the trebuchet effect.
-Remember if you're properly side on with shoulders right down the wicket, you're aligned and if you let it go all your machinery will,  (like a Ferris wheel),  send the ball right at off stump. Only variable is what length it pitches at. If your shoulders are skew, then your bowling arm has to come around (more like a discus thrower) rather than over the top and where you let it go determines which direction it goes in. Much less control.
-Next steps follow through and making sure you keep balanced, head level, eyes fixed on off stump, driving all your energy straight down the wicket. [[User:Amwelladmin|Amwelladmin]] ([[User talk:Amwelladmin|talk]]) 11:06, 6 February 2017 (CST)

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