Newsletter N0 1. December 2024
Updates you may not know:
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Peter Dunne is organising a players meeting for 17th December to discuss the format of the Saturday interclub going forward. He has called for a participating member to represent each club.
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Remits from clubs due in by 31 January.
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Womens S&R Hurley Singles to be played on 1&2 February venue will be rescheduled to natural greens due to the expectation of requiring two greens. You will be advised.
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Live Scoring. For the first time we had live scoring of the finals of the mixed pairs on Bowls Hub. What a long way we have come on bowls hub. You will be advised by Facebook for future live scoring..
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​Bill Clements had his 85 Centre Titles recognised in the Otago Daily Times. Well done Bill.​
​Here is a slightly different version of the article:
Clocking up his 85th title in Central Otago
Bill Clements of Alexandra Bowling Club has just clocked up his 85th Centre Title at the Mike Pero Triples held on 16 &17 November. There were 24 teams entered and NZ medalists among the opposition. 11 teams qualified from the rounds played in Queenstown on Saturday and the final series was played at Clyde on Sunday in perfect weather.
Clements took into his team rookie development player Len Lynskey and the more experienced Ray Leeden as lead. Clements was bowling splendid bowls seemingly unable to miss his run shots. The strong Arrowtown Team of Allan Brash, Kelvin Jackson and Jeff McCandless had no answer and went down 25-5 in the final.
Clements received his first Central Otago Title in 1983 open singles which was the first year it was played. 85 centre titles is close to a New Zealand Bowls Centre record. Clements is well known on the New Zealand circuit and his knowledge quoted by bowls commentators on television.
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Arvida Mixed Pairs 7&8 December at Queenstown
Winners Omakau: Nikki Milne & Trevor Drake
Runners Up Alexandra: Tina Jerrom & Bill Clements
You had to watch the final to believe it. Nikki and Trevor, down 11-0. Clawed their way back and eventually won 17-16 (after 3 killed ends).
Blimey - what a scintillating finish @ 14-14 going into the 13th end. WOW! WOW! WOW! What a game!!!
Tina and Bill - fantastic bowls all weekend. Well done!!!
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If you have the time and skills to film our great games such as this please let us know. We would love to be able to screen this.
Sponsorship for Our Teams
We are very proud of our Central Otago Teams. Their new team jackets, kindly sponsored by Hawkeswood Mining Ltd, will hopefully be here by Christmas.
There is a lot of time and effort involved from all those selected as well as coaches and organisers. Travel is our largest problem and it means that our teams must invest more time and funds just because of our isolation. Our teams need to compete against other Centres regularly which in turn lifts the level downstream. This year the men and women are competing in an additional tournament in Christchurch on 8 & 9 of February. Our biggest expense is travel. Those selected also encrue much expense just attending all the Central Otago events and training.
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If you would like to sponsor please contact us. Every small contribution is valued. We have sponsors listed on our home page. We have no direct assets, our indirect assets are our umbrella clubs.
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November Statistics copied from wix website.
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Visitor retention
New visitors
343 +1%
Returning visitors
258 +17%
Top referring sites
Direct
1.5K
1.2K
653​​​
Tour of Website
All the latest news will appear on the home page for a short time.
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Minutes and other supporting documents are uploaded here.
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Details and photos from of all this seasons tournaments are uploaded here
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Details and photos from this seasons Central Otago intercentre tournaments uploaded here
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Conditions of play / Regulations etc. If a discrepancy occurs during a tournament that is not listed in the conditions of play then the "Laws of the Sport" cover the issue. All you need is here.
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A gentle Discussion
We had a talk about what is dumping? Apparently it is a bowl released from higher than 30 cm. If you are not guilty well I am... So what happened? After I did it I think. "Thats terrible I threw that one" So what did I do wrong? Its probably timing in my case. Here is what Jack High Bowls has to say.
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​Most of our clubs have bowling arms for you to try out if you just cannot get down any more so ask a buddy for help. Bowls New Zealand have no policy on this and neither does Central Otago. We don't want anyone to feel they are not welcome to play nor do we want to loose any members.
The State of Flow
Most of you will have experienced this and you want to repeat it more often. Or maybe you have heard of it and it is yet to happen.
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Some people know this as being in the zone. It happens when you are in deep concentration and you are not aware of anything else but what you are doing. You play very well at the top of your game.
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A famous psychologist expoused this theory so you can read more about it here.
From the Editor
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This is our first newsletter. No promises how often we will have one.
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Please send contributions to Barb at publicity.centralotagobowls@gmail.com
Seen and approved by our manager Pauline Seaton.
