La boule du desert

How to Choose Bowls ?

How to choose well the size and the weight of your ball of game of bowls ?

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Which type of player be you ?

There are three great families of balls according to the post occupied by the players :

The Pointer

The pointer plays rather with balls of small diameter (71 to 74 mm) to offer less surface to the gunner, enough doors for a better control (700 to 740 gr.), hard for a better longevity and striated to facilitate its stop on difficult ground.

Medium

The medium plays rather with general-purpose balls of a diameter (72 to 76 mm) and of an average weight 680 to 720 gr.), semi-tender and little striated. It is the best choice also when one often plays two and that one thus occupies only the post of pointer and gunner.

The Gunner

The gunner rather plays with balls of large diameter (74 to 78 mm), light in order to limit tiredness (670 to 710 gr.), tender to limit the rebound and to support the squares… and smooth to avoid “hanging the ball” in the hand at the time of the shooting.

How to choose the diameter which is appropriate to you ?

For that, you provide with one meter or a rule and measure the distance between the end of your inch and that with your major open hand. Think of well measuring the hand which will hold your balls. It any more but does not remain you to defer you to the table to below have an idea of the size of the balls best adapted to your morphology.

16 cm	17 cm	18 cm	19 cm	20 cm	21 cm	22 cm	23 cm	24 cm	25 cm
71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79	80

Notes : Think of well measuring the hand which will hold your future balls. Moreover, according to the station that you wish to occupy or your own preferences of catches in hands, these advised sizes can vary more or less unit…

Which metal to choose ?

Stainless: : hard, tender or 1/2 to tend, it is undoubtedly the metal which requires less maintenance. Do not rust, excellent behaviour in hand

Steel : hard, tender or 1/2 to tighten, not leave not your balls to moisture. To avoid the nuisance of the points of rust, you can slip them into a rag very slightly oiled. Very good behaviour in hand, recommended for moist skins.

Bronze : special alloy, it is a very tender, “hot” metal with the hand. Recommended on very hard ground (bituminous mix/gore rammed). Important: the more tender one ball is, the more the risks of marking on the surface are important. In the same way, the nature of certain grounds can érafler surfaces the tender or very tender balls of them.

Which hardness to choose ?

Les The hard balls are especially used by the pointers. They have a great longevity and agree with all the types of ground.
The gunners prefer thetender balls because they rebound less at the time of the impact, which is particularly appreciable on hard ground and for the “squares”.

Why personalize its balls?

To engrave its name or its initial on its balls can, at first sight, come out useless. But makes some, this personalization can prove often very useful to find its balls more quickly when several players have the same ones. Moreover, another considerable advantage is that it limits the interest of your balls for badly disposed people.