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- Herausgeber: Crowood
- Kategorie: Lebensstil
- Sprache: Englisch
This fascinating book reveals the secrets of fast bowling and explains how it is possible to simultaneously bowl fast, straight and accurately. The Fast Bowler's Bible is a very practical, easily accessible bowling manual that any seam or swing bowler playing at any level can understand. It contains explosive new information being used by the world's best cricketers."I wish that I had met Ian Pont, the bowling coach, ten years before I did... Ian is an expert in his field and has got some excellent ideas on how to engineer a bowling action." Ronnie Irani, Essex and England. Written by one of the world's best fast-bowling coaches.Well illustrated with sixty photographs and thirty-four diagrams and drawings.Explains what part of your body generates pace and why holding onto the ball longer is far more effective.Unravels the mysteries of advanced biomechanics as they apply to bowling.Reveals how to bowl crushingly effective bouncers and yorkers every time.Discusses what to do in practice and what to avoid.Analyses how to train and exercise in order to produce the best results.Illustrates all the correct grips for each delivery so that you get it right every time.Describes how to increase pace effortlessly, how to adopt the correct mental approach, how to deal with pressure, how to apply it to the opposition, and much more.This invaluable book tells you everything you need to know about how to bowl fast.Packed with tips and tricks, it is essential reading for bowlers of all ages as well as their coaches.Well illustrated with sixty black & white photographs and thirty-four diagrams and drawings.Ian Pont is an expert in his field and one of the world's best fast-bowling coaches.
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First published in 2006 by The Crowood Press Ltd, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 2HR
www.crowood.com
This e-book edition first published in 2013
© Ian Pont 2006
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ISBN 978 1 84797 536 2
Disclaimer Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that this book is technically accurate and sound, neither the author nor the publisher can accept responsibility for any injury or loss sustained as a result of using this material. Since the physical activities described in this book may be too strenuous in nature for some readers to engage in safely, it is essential that a doctor be consulted prior to undertaking training and, or, bowling.
Throughout this book ‘he’, ‘him’ and his’, etc, are used as neutral pronouns and as such refer to both males and females.
Photographs © Chris Mercer
Contents
Acknowledgements
My special thanks for all their help in making this book possible to:
Dr Asaf Bashir (medical, injury prevention and exercises) Dr Rabi Mehta (sports aerodynamics consultant) Chris Mercer (sports photographs) Graham Napier (bowling model) Antonio Palladino (contribution) Andrew McGarry (contribution) Club Woodham Health & Fitness (exercises) Warsop Stebbing (cricket balls)
Mention must be made of the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team coaching staff for their encouragement and support in initially teaching the mechanics of accuracy and speed together. This was a pivotal discovery for me.
Finally and most importantly, I would like to thank Dr Kenneth L. West personally for his insight, wisdom and collaboration on vital aspects of my own fast bowling coaching methodology. Without his supreme understanding of advanced biomechanics, much of this book could not have been written.
The coaching methods in this book are known as ABSAT (Advanced Biomechanics, Speed and Accuracy Training). ABSAT coaching is a style and methodology designed by the author to give improvements to bowlers in the fastest time, and in a safe way.
For private coaching, individual coaching or to enquire about the 60-beats-per-minute music, please visit www.maverickscricket.com where you will find a contact address, number and email.
Foreword
Quick bowling is the most individual talent in cricket. That’s why, if I had to give one piece of advice to a young lad aching to become a fast bowler, it would be ‘Do what feels good’. I know it’s not the most technical advice in the world, but if your body does not feel comfortable with what you ask it to do, your chances of doing the business will not be very high.
Understanding the basic action is important, but once that has been established just concentrate on accelerating through your run-up, hitting the crease at speed, and propelling that ball as fast as you can. It will soon become clear whether you have the raw materials to become a fast bowler. In the current era, Brett Lee adopts a great position. Biomechanically, the Australian has the perfect action.
Every great fast bowler is different. For every one like Dennis Lillee, another man blessed with a great classical action, there is someone else who is much more unorthodox. Jeff Thomson, Lillee’s hunting partner in the great Australian side of the seventies, favoured a slinging action that nobody would ever have tried to coach into him. But Thomson was one of the fastest bowlers in history and, at his peak, terrorised nearly every batsman who faced him.
Just look at the differences in styles. The West Indians, Joel Garner and Curtly Ambrose, gained much advantage from their height. Malcolm Marshall scuttled through the crease at breakneck speed. Colin Croft rocked wide of the crease with an awkward splayfooted action. Yet all were born with the same talent: the ability to propel a cricket ball at speeds around 90mph.
The problem for a teenage fast bowler is that once he gets to a certain age he is surrounded by coaches telling him to change that, and do this, rather than just let him bowl. A lot of coaches try to turn every fast bowler into Richard Hadlee, the essence of a master craftsman, rather than just let them enjoy the game and thrill in their particular blessing.
Often, bowlers without a classical action, who are persuaded by coaches to learn the error of their ways, break down with knee and back problems. Would these injuries have surfaced had they been left alone? In some cases, perhaps they would. But in other cases they break down because they are trying to do something that doesn’t come naturally to them.
Refuse the extra net session if you feel too exhausted. Don’t always agree to drop your pace and become net fodder. Beware of too many indoor sessions, especially in inferior sports centres, where the jarring on the knee and back can do damage. Concentrate on quality, not quantity. Above all, build up your hunger.
Develop a training programme, but only after taking advice from the professionals. Sit-ups done badly, for instance, can do more harm than good – they are less likely to strengthen your abdominal muscles than wreck your back.
Above all, don’t bowl through niggling injuries. Get proper advice and get it early. You have only one body. Treat it with the respect it deserves.
I’m a great believer in leaving young bowlers to develop naturally as much as possible. There are great dangers in trying to radically change a natural action that has been functioning perfectly into one that is textbook perfect.
You can always refine an action to gain extra efficiency, but coaches these days are increasingly wary of changing things too much. If a bowler has a special skill at fourteen, there is an argument for leaving that talent well alone. Many promising bowlers have suddenly lost everything and eventually given up the game. Altered actions can look wooden and manufactured.
Budding seam bowlers should remember that they are still growing, and that they should not put their bodies under too much strain for fear of prolonged injury. Over bowling is a problem for many youngsters as they try to balance demands by different clubs, schools and age-group sides. Set yourself a limit.
It is important for a bowler to take advice primarily from one or maybe two people. Find someone who you feel happy with and stick with him. Particularly when you are just starting out, it’s a mistake to collect conflicting advice from every different source and then try to stick it all together. That is just a recipe for confusion.
Since my knee injuries I have worked on biomechanics with Steve Oldham at Yorkshire and now Ian Pont at Essex. The reasoning behind this has been to try to be a little more open in my action in terms of getting my front arm to move in the same direction as I am running. All of this work is designed to generate that extra yard of pace that all fast bowlers need to trouble the world’s top batsmen.
By now, most people know my attitude. However you spend your life, you might as well try to enjoy it. I’m lucky to play cricket for England, something that millions have dreamed of apart from me, so the least I can do is go about things with a smile on my face.
There is a theory that talented young cricketers don’t get the chance to learn to love the game these days. The minute they show any promise, they are packaged off into representative sides, and from there into county nets or cricket academies. Coaching begins at an increasingly early age. In no time, sport has become an examination subject more than a recreation.
Fortunately, I managed to cram in a couple of years at Monk Bretton, in the Pontefract section of the Yorkshire Council, before I started on the treadmill, so I sampled the love for the game that thousands of amateur players at small clubs have. Cricket takes many hours to reach a conclusion, which leaves plenty of time for laughter amid the competition. Every young player should enjoy that humour. Try your utmost while you are on the field, and examine every way to improve your game, but when it’s over, try to laugh at both success and failure. That will make your experience so much more worthwhile.
Good luck and keep trying.
Darren Gough
Introduction
I’d like to start by saying that I wish I’d met Ian Pont, the bowling coach, ten years before I did.
Throughout my bowling career I was regarded as a genuine medium pace bowler, who relied on accuracy and swing if the conditions were right. What Ian did for me personally was to make sure that the biomechanics of my action were increased to the maximum to allow me to gain an extra yard of pace.
Biomechanically my action had never been worked on or even modified by coaches throughout my professional career, and those bowlers that were at a higher level than me pacewise always had naturally good biomechanical actions. I was not one of them.
The work I did with Ian helped me rectify this, even though my old action was very much set in its ways. What he did for me was to increase my pace a little bit and got my body and timing working together at point of delivery, thereby increasing my accuracy to a higher level than before. Hence my recall back into the England cricket team 2002, after a break of six years.
Ian Pont is an expert in his field and has some excellent ideas on how to engineer a bowling action. He really highlights the basis of great bowlers of the past and, I hope, the future too.
Yours in cricket Ronnie Irani
How to Use this Book
I love proverbs and sayings. They can be profound. The Chinese have a great one about learning, which is, ‘When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear’.
So I am going to assume you are ready, because this book is your teacher and the way to use it is to read it and then re-read the relevant sections. Make notes if you wish. But most of all, take time to understand what is being said. I don’t know what level you are already at, but I do know that the majority of what’s in these pages will be new to you.
Having coached at all levels I can honestly say that bowlers learn faster when they challenge what they are doing and interact with the information they are receiving. By that I mean don’t merely accept it. Go out and experience it for yourself. Also take time to look at other bowlers and assess their actions, based on the knowledge you will gather from here. This makes you a bowling coach and helps you use a critical eye to consider what’s happening in the bowling action. It all helps reinforce your own awareness and appreciation too.
I suggest you sit down and read this book through from start to finish. Then go back to Chapter 4 and the section on advanced biomechanics, starting with ‘The Keys To Success’, taking in each of the points and associated examples, one by one. That’s how I would do it the first time out.
Hopefully, you’ll find it an interesting read. I suspect you’ll find it challenging, which is the point of any good coaching book. It’s written in a chatty style, not a stuffy, condescending style that is lecturing. View this book as a friend and mentor. And like all good mates, it will even get the first round of drinks in.
CHAPTER 1
What’s Wrong with Coaching?
Over-coaching is as bad as under-coaching. However, I prefer to say that neither of these is the culprit. The wrong coaching is the worst of all. Sure, you can coach a young bowler way too much and stifle his natural talent. Equally, there are fast bowlers who are allowed to develop with mistakes in actions that can lead to stress fractures of the spine and other horrendous problems. But the biggest mistake a coach can make is simply giving the wrong information.
The challenge for a coach therefore is to understand how to get the best out of a bowler as well as when to coach and what to coach. This is what makes a coach truly great. But having the knowledge about the bowling action in the first place is paramount. That’s why the MCC Coaching Book always fascinated me. The bowling section in the book that I used to read and re-read as a child only covered how to bowl with a sideways action. It simply didn’t cater for mixed or front-on actions. In fact, it only ever went as far as proposing there is one way to bowl, which is clearly incorrect. Also, it never explained why things happened, or attempted to question ‘accepted’ wisdom.
The incidences of stress-related impact and twisting injuries on the spine have dramatically increased in modern cricket. This may be a combination of many factors, but it’s certainly as a result of better monitoring. We have technological advances that can identify and correct injuries and indeed predict if a bowler is likely to have injury problems ahead of them happening. These advances are helping bowlers to understand the limitations of their current bowling action and make biomechanical changes to improve.
But injury prevention is only half of the equation. Increasing a bowler’s speed and accuracy is the other side of the coin that has not been fully understood or absorbed. It’s good to see changes to coaching courses as biomechanics coaching becomes a more important area that requires better understanding. But we’re still a very long way off. That’s why this book is for all those who think you cannot help bowlers bowl faster. I’ve met many of them. I hear coaches and non-coaches, who simply don’t know what they’re doing, saying just that. I’ve spoken to officials inside cricket, ex-players and even those running cricket at various levels who have a very old-fashioned view about bowling. It takes time for these people to come to terms with new ideas. It takes even longer for them to change – despite progress being inevitable. All it means is that the rate of success varies widely from country to country, county to county, and club to club.
But all sport moves on and cricket is no exception. For example, the training methods of athletes thirty years ago would be laughable today and every world athletics record has been broken many times. Roger Bannister’s world-beating time wouldn’t get him within half a lap of the record today. Yet it was hailed as a human triumph in its day, which it was of course. Advances in just about everything, including coaching, have far surpassed what’s gone before.
So this isn’t about being ungracious to a generation of cricket coaches. But the fact is it’s sometimes not easy to accept breakthroughs in coaching methods, simply because they aren’t from yesteryear. Either that, or those methods weren’t based on what that coach did himself as a player (most coaches coach from playing experience rather than from best practice). This is exactly why the challenge for a fast bowler today is to get access to all relevant information and make his own mind up.
That’s not a modern way of coaching – it’s the only way of coaching.
A bowler is today almost self-taught or at least ‘self-understood’, with the coach as a facilitator and guide. It’s something coaches are becoming increasingly aware of. Yet as long ago as the early 1970s this truth about fast bowling was taking shape.
At that time a young inexperienced Pakistani bowler called Imran Khan played for Worcestershire in the English County Championship. He bowled little, medium-pace swingers. It was all fairly innocuous stuff. Within eighteen months Imran had developed into one of the world’s most devastating bowlers with the skill to bowl in excess of 90mph and swing the ball in late. It was a complete transformation. No one who had seen him at the start could have imagined the changes one person could make in such a short space of time.
Cricket is all about speed these days. Fast bowling, fast spin and fast batting. That means the speed of the ball, bat speed and the speed of revolutions on the ball. That’s why I felt if we had four bowlers bowling over 85mph we had a chance of winning the Ashes.
Duncan Fletcher
So what was his secret? His action. He changed it. He worked on his delivery and ability to get the most out of his body at the crease to get the ball swinging at pace. The results were miraculous. Of course, he also worked on his fitness and strength too. And these served to support his new action perfectly. Imran was one of the first to truly adopt biomechanics in its truest sense.
What’s more, as a great attacking batsman he went on to become one of the best all-round cricketers of all time. But he will always be remembered for his wonderful action and tremendous ability to destroy batting line-ups with the ball.
So take heart – whatever level you’re at you can improve what you’ve got. All you need to know is how to do it.
CHAPTER 2
One for the Ladies
It shouldn’t be overlooked that the England Ladies’ Test Team also won the Ashes in 2005. That was a magnificent achievement and credit goes to all the players and support staff for making it happen. Ladies’ cricket generally is moving in the right direction and it’s being taken more seriously by administrators, which is great news. Sadly though, ladies’ cricket suffers from a lack of funding. And that’s not surprising, given the poor media coverage it has to put up with.
However, with specific reference to coaching, this book applies equally to male and female fast bowlers. I do not distinguish between the two for purposes of learning. But I do make an apology.
I refer throughout this book to ‘he’ rather than ‘she’ when describing the bowler. This is purely because it would be tedious to write ‘he/she’ every time and it breaks up the enjoyment of reading. So I ask all female cricketers to bear with me on this point. It’s not designed to exclude – merely to aid the pleasure of reading the secrets revealed.
As an aside, I look forward to working with the England Ladies’ Team very soon. And I’m hoping that up-and-coming girls, as well as newcomers to female cricket, can absorb the information just as well as their male counterparts. I would imagine in many cases even more so.
Apart from the obvious physical differences, there is no reason why women can’t improve just as quickly. In fact, I still hope we see the world’s first 80mph female fast bowler sometime soon. The right person equipped physically to do it and with the knowledge found here, could take the female game by storm.
Watch this space.
CHAPTER 3
Blowing the Lid off Fast Bowling
February in Port Elizabeth, South Africa
It’s called the Windy City. But for now it’s calm, shimmeringly hot and very, very sunny. Azure blue skies, the beach and the Indian Ocean make this an attractive seaside resort, offering far too many distractions as the build up to the Cricket World Cup begins.
If only cricket was played in England in weather like this. We’d be world-beaters. But our weather is not so good.
I have heard pundits and coaches say that’s partially the reason we don’t have hoards of fast bowlers queuing up. That and, of course, the consequently slow pitches. They must be to blame. It’s always cold, damp or unsavoury conditions that affect our quickies. How can you encourage bowlers to bowl fast when it’s like that?
We use this at least in part to explain why, after many years of trying, we have not had a fast bowling attack to fear over a long period of time. Don’t get me wrong. Now and again we produce the odd quickie. And if we’re really lucky, two or three might be around at the same time. And when this happens our Test cricket team suddenly starts doing well. Funny that, isn’t it? But if one or two get injured or lose form, we’re back to square one again.
One can only imagine, then, how wonderful English cricket would be if we played it in warm sunshine all the time. After all, the weather is responsible. Isn’t it?
Here’s why it’s not.
Looking back over my cricket career I can honestly say that not one coach actually showed me how to bowl fast. It’s an area we should be expert in. But to do this requires understanding rather than regurgitation of facts.
A young bowler who wants to know how to bowl fast or to learn the skills of what it takes to become a truly fast bowler will find that these skills are not widely taught. And for me, I was left with a coach (usually ex-professional) trying to get me to bowl how they bowled. If it didn’t work, they’d feel comforted by the fact that ‘fast bowlers are born, not made’. (The opposite of that is the truth, and this book will help explain why.) What they in fact meant was, raw talent is born. You can make the best out of anything if you know what to do. And that’s the secret.
Equally as important, no one explained why they were coaching what they were coaching. The simple truth may have been, and possibly still is, that they didn’t know either.
I recall spending a winter whilst teaching sport at Stowe School. I was twenty-one years old. The previous summer, Nottinghamshire had released me after being signed as an all-rounder on a two-year contract. Bob White, the 2nd XI coach at Notts at the time, suggested that I try to become a fast bowler rather than a steady seamer. So that winter at Stowe, I shed two stone in weight and used my spare time to work out building up my back and shoulder muscles. The results were dramatic.
It was a watershed for me because I discovered two things that would change the way I viewed fast bowling. The first was that you have to want to bowl fast. The second was that no one around was going to be able to help. This, without question, would be a journey of self-discovery.
Almost by accident I realised it was possible to increase speed and accuracy by stretching and contracting certain muscles groups, and by getting the body into specific positions. Not only did this improve bowling but also throwing, a fact I was to put to the test in America on tryouts as a baseball pitcher with the New York Yankees. Spurred on by great results I went back to America for six weeks and spent the spring training with the Philadelphia Phillies where I learnt the facts about advanced biomechanics.
However it wasn’t until some nine years later in 1996 that I met Dr Ken West, a professor of biomechanics who was able to reveal the why part of bowling fast. He not only confirmed what I had discovered for myself but also proved that anyone can improve speed and accuracy by positioning. This was very exhilarating.
Working alongside Ken has given me the tools to explain the how to part of fast bowling in a way that is easy to understand and more importantly, can be replicated.
Any good sports coach seeking credibility should be able to explain the why and how to part of what they are saying. In other words, understand what the body does and help the student to feel their body working in that way. It is only by challenging that we ultimately discover.
The fact is, cricket coaching is usually performed by the generation before, who in turn were taught by the generation before them. Fathers tend to coach sons and pass on their knowledge from their own experiences and what they were told. Older club players coach youngsters the same way.
It means many beliefs and phrases have become ‘accepted’ as the norm being passed from grandfather to father to son but were not always explained – just copied. Think of all those generations passing on things they hadn’t really questioned? Like why do we coach a certain way, or where’s the proof something works? It’s only very recently that the side-on action has been queried. Indeed, many current coaches still say that getting side-on in the action is the only way to show and coach a young fast bowler, which of course is clearly wrong.
Yet year after year we see an alarming prevalence of back injuries and career-threatening stress fractures. More bowlers are having their actions remodelled and reshaped by coaches like National Academy Fast Bowling Coach Troy Cooley and myself. Cricket coaching has evolved into as much about preventing injury as being able to bowl well, because it’s sometimes too late trying to help someone after they’ve been badly injured. I am in the camp that says let’s get a bowler bowling naturally, with an action they feel happy with, but within certain boundaries or guidelines. You have to have an action that’s robust, supportive and above all as stress-free as possible, bearing in mind that fast bowling is very hard work. And when you achieve this, you automatically find it easier to be consistent with your action and duplicate the same delivery. Plus of course, you have more chance of bowling faster and in a straight line. That’s why Troy’s work at the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) has been as important for preventing injury as mine is for increasing pace and accuracy.
It’s the very reason – when it comes to the history of coaching – why we need to be selective about the information we choose to give people. A coach needs to be flexible, adaptive and understanding of the bowling action.
Because any good methodology should stand up to close scrutiny, or at least be responsible for some measure of success and excellence. Excellence isn’t just a word (even though we hear it bandied around as though it is). To truly achieve excellence, one must have opened the mind to all possibilities and then chosen the best route.
Clearly, this has not been the case with fast bowling in England over the years. But that’s all changing dramatically. The England team has won the Ashes back after eighteen years. And guess what? We out-bowled the Australian attack comfortably. Yes that’s right. With some excellent fast bowling and reverse swing, the English bowlers came out on top. It didn’t just happen overnight. The success had been planned some five years earlier, and a strategy identified. Thanks to a combination of many factors coming together, England out-played Australia.
Understanding of the bowling action is an integral part of improvement. Now discover the secrets of what’s involved. Read for yourself the facts about pace, accuracy and how to make the most of your own bowling.
I am a firm believer in utilising your natural talent as best you can. You can do this by choosing the best bits of advice in this book and trying them out. If they feel right then they probably are right – for you. At the end of the day you must feel 100 per cent behind any changes you make, otherwise don’t bother. It’s no good being half-hearted about things. Get a plan of your own and put it in place.
I hope this book helps you to introduce new ideas and ways to coach, which in turn can refresh and inspire those you choose to help – or help yourself. At the very worst, you’ll be making a real difference to the lives of many cricketers and your own.
If the book is purely for your own game, then the truth is you now hold the future in your hands. That means it’s time to get excited.
CHAPTER 4
Fast Bowling Coaching Made Easy
Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I will remember. Involve me and I will understand.
Benjamin Franklin
To coach or not to coach, that is the question. Do you leave raw talent alone or do you interfere with it? And if so, when is the best time to coach?
The problem is, someone with raw, genuine talent may have a technically unsound action or, at least, an unusual way of delivering the ball. There would be an overwhelming temptation to correct it. Let’s take Shaun Tait of Australia as an example.
Fast bowler Tait took more Pura Cup wickets in the 2004–2005 Australian domestic season than anyone else. That might be because he bowled really well. Or it might be because it summed up the standard of Australian domestic batting. Either way it got him selected for the Ashes squad. Yet his action is riddled with challenges from a biomechanical point of view. I am being polite. He does many things wrong and some of them are working against him in his quest to have a long career.
Yes it’s true he can get the ball out of his hand at around 90mph. And that’s why the general view is he should be left alone to bowl as he wants. So I can see why this ‘non-intervention’ option would be very appealing. However, despite appearing as though change would be difficult, it could be done. The results, I think, would be spectacular and he could enjoy startling success with greater pace, accuracy and straight lines. Perhaps the changes ought to have been made in development as a junior, although some coaches will say maybe not.
Another player who had some issues with his bowling was Jason Gillespie. But his situation is completely different. Two seasons prior to the 2005 Ashes summer, Gillespie was one of the world’s leading fast bowlers. He had pace, movement and bounce. This meant he troubled even the best of the batsmen he came up against. Yet in 2005 I watched this giant of a man visibly wilt under the pressure of inconsistency. His Ashes summer fell apart. And the dreadful thing was that no one seemed to know how to correct it, least of all the bowler himself. With approximately fifty differing pieces of (incorrect) advice ringing in his ears, I can imagine the poor guy was the most confused man on the planet as everyone rallied to tell him what he was doing wrong.
The sad thing is his remedy was quite simple, and covers two of the fast bowling keys mentioned later (chest drive and exit stride). Gillespie has the type of action where he needs momentum to get out of the crease. He has fast arms and a big rotation. That’s why, when he doesn’t bowl particularly well, it’s because he gets ‘stuck’ in the crease and doesn’t get out of it. The solution is not to run in harder or faster, as I heard he had been told to do. His ‘bouncy’ run-up is for rhythm, not ground-speed rhythm like Lee or Akhtar. It would seem that Gillespie’s solution is a very personal thing, and should take place under the watchful eye and help of a knowledgeable coach. This will also help build confidence, which is another attribute of a good tutor.
