Technical
Technique is the performance BULLSEYE. There are key movements you need to master as a fast bowler. It’s here you will find the most important technical drills – with explanations – so you can correct faults and improve. The idea is you get information on the most common faults fast bowlers make, identify what you are missing in your action and then watch how to put those mistakes right! By simply watching and understanding what is below, you can become your own best coach. And that means you can return here time after time to improve your knowledge and most importantly, your speed, accuracy and overall performance.
- A series of the very latest informational & instructional videos
- Entertaining Podcasts covering key subjects
- PDF Handouts to help you get to grips with implementing upgrades
- Additional resources that apply and connect across the other sections
- CLICK THIS FOR A GUIDE ON USING THIS TECHNICAL SECTION
Modules
Month 1
Lessons
- Additional content
- Follow Through Alignment – Don’t drift off line at the very end. Power out to power up.
- Pre-Turn – This one move on your back foot corrects a number of faults. Brilliant
- The Clock Face – Find out why throwing your bowling hand forward before you bowl is not a great thing to do!
- How To Stay On Track – Make sure all your speed goes at the target. Here’s how!
- Bowling too full? Bowling too short? – How to correct this mid-game by knowing why it happens.
- Is Speed Coachable? – Born with speed or can you develop it? Fascinating insight into the truth
- How Much Should I Drill? – What to train and WHEN to train it are important skills.
- Hidden Secrets Of Avoiding No Balls – Just don’t bowl them. If you do, here’s how to stop it.
Month 2
Lessons
- Feet Alignment – How to bowl on skis, not a tightrope. The power base to have you launching more speed.
- Front Arm and Drag Connection – Cross connection from two sides of the body to generate more speed when your body parts work as a team.
- Front Foot Block – Decelerate the base to accelerate the top. Fundamental move to take run up speed into the cricket ball itself.
- Non-Bowling Arm – Use it or lose it. Add in the hidden power to your speed from the non-bowling arm.
- Tent Peg 1 – Bowling Hand Load Up. An important piece of advice into your bowling action.
- Tent Pegs 1 to 4 non-stop – Building up progressions to master the 4 Tent Pegs
- The 4 Tent Pegs – The legendary fast bowling skeleton ALL fast bowlers share. Master this.
- Hip-Shoulder Separation Explanation, Drill & Demo – One of the THREE keys for pace
- Jog Through Drills & Demo – This is an important progression for the 4 Tent Pegs
- Hip & Shoulder Separation & Demo (Tent Pegs 1-4 at the Top, Tent Peg 1-3 at the Base) – A brilliant, stripped out isolation drill to establish ‘sequencing’ (part of RSSSA) and understanding of action
- Run Up PDF – Simple guidelines for you to follow
- Drop Step PDF with Brett Lee – Explains the wonder of the drop step in detail
- Hip Shoulder Separation PDF – How to do it visual reminder
- Walk Through Drill & Demo – How to progress the 4 Tent Pegs into a fluid movement with momentum
Month 3
Lessons
- Drop Step & Demo – One of the biggest discoveries in fast bowling. How to drop into the front foot block
- Bottom Half Only, Isolation Drill & Demo – The perfect way to utilise your base to gain more speed & control
- Hang Time & Demo – How to ‘set’ your bowling action correctly using the bridge between the run up and your action
