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Post by jamesjenks92 on Sept 7, 2012 9:19:06 GMT -5
Hi,
I will be using this blog to post links to my videos of me bowling and hope to receive any sort of feedback from yourselves. I will also put up any match reports or basically anything to do with Leg Spin that i can find.
Let us know if you think this is a good idea.
Hope to hear from you soon.
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Post by jamesjenks92 on Sept 8, 2012 15:51:24 GMT -5
Just organised a coaching session with the Crickey Asylum
In Halifax. £40 for an hour 1-2-1 session and 90min group session which I think is fairly reasonable, especially as the coach was a former leg-spin bowler.
On a separate note, where do people but their cricket equipment from, I got given a bat, pads, gloves and helmet last season, but could really do with getting some new gear. Have been looking on pro direct cricket, but if anybody else could recommend somewhere else it would be fantastic.
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Post by goldenarm on Sept 8, 2012 16:40:00 GMT -5
Just organised a coaching session with the Crickey Asylum In Halifax. £40 for an hour 1-2-1 session and 90min group session which I think is fairly reasonable, especially as the coach was a former leg-spin bowler. On a separate note, where do people but their cricket equipment from, I got given a bat, pads, gloves and helmet last season, but could really do with getting some new gear. Have been looking on pro direct cricket, but if anybody else could recommend somewhere else it would be fantastic. you've inspired me to look into a visit to the cricket asylum, please let me know if its any good. Gear wise stay well away from pro direct, they are infamously terrible retailers. Couple of good places to look are: uzisports.com/The owner Asad is a top bloke and makes it his business to only stock the best, practically every bat in the shop is a gun as he hand picks the stock so there's no crap. Great customer service as well and worth a visit in person just to pick everything up and have a swish and tap up! www.talentcricket.co.uk/Talent are good as well but less of a personal service and their bats are nowhere near the quality of what you'd pick up from Uzi. If you're looking for a bat though I'd recommend going to a small bat maker, they are multitudinous at the moment and for a reasonable price you'll get something far better than most of the very top end Gray Nics, GM's or Kooks. Let me refer you to this forum to explore this further: custombats.co.uk/cbforum/index.php |
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Post by jamesjenks92 on Sept 9, 2012 5:10:35 GMT -5
Will let you know how I get on there  seems like a good place from the reviews I have seen. Where abouts are you from? Will look at those websites for some gear, what sort of bat would you recommend, I am 6 foot 2 so is there a size I am aiming to get? Thanks for your help |
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Post by goldenarm on Sept 13, 2012 16:13:41 GMT -5
I'm from Worcestershire (don't mention the fact the old enemy relegated us please!) I've actually gone ahead and booked myself in for a two hour session with Matt at the Asylum at the end of september so we can compare notes! Really looking forward to it now, I'm tempted to get the pitchvision license thing if it means I can access the videos of myself, perhaps go up there again a month or two later for another session to make it worthwhile. Bat wise you'll just be wanting a normal short handled bat i think, 6' 2" isn't really tall enough to warrant a long handle or long blade.
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Post by jamesjenks92 on Sept 14, 2012 3:08:34 GMT -5
I was considering the PitchLicense but will wait till after my first session i think as i want to know whether they have the backwall part of it as well to measure the spin and where the ball will end up, although i can see it being useful just to find out how consistent i am and watch my progress. What day you going down, i going down Wednesdays and am looking to do 1 hour sessions every fortnight as well as join in the Adult group class which are 90mins long.
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Feb 10, 2013 14:49:35 GMT -5
James, have you started nets yet this year and did ever subscribe to the pitchvision thing you were discussing in the thread here?
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Feb 20, 2013 16:58:53 GMT -5
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Mar 24, 2013 9:13:27 GMT -5
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Mar 30, 2013 16:58:21 GMT -5
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Post by goldenarm on Apr 5, 2013 14:25:34 GMT -5
Thought I would let everyone know, and possibly to entice James to tell us his experiences too, I visited the Cricket Asylum today for a 2 hour coaching session. It was absolutely brilliant, can't recommend it highly enough. The facilities are top notch and the coach Matt was a really nice bloke and extremely knowledgeable being a level 3 coach and a wicket keeper. He has had the benefit of seeing spin bowled from both ends and dabbling in it himself. He helped me work through some simple but very effective drills, all with the aid of video which can be watched back immediately all through the session so you can see exactly what you're doing and what the balls doing. We ended the session with a bit of a game where I bowled 40 balls to a friend of mine who had come for batting coaching at the same time. By the end I was bowling somewhere near my peak and we'd highlighted what it was I needed to be doing to achieve that consistently, so all in all a very worthwhile trip. If you were thinking about it I'd say stop thinking and just do it.
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Apr 5, 2013 16:50:47 GMT -5
Sounds good, you need to tell us more!
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Post by goldenarm on Apr 6, 2013 9:15:32 GMT -5
Didn't want to write a whole essay last night as I was so tired from a long day! Halifax was quite a long drive from Worcester! It was a nice scenic drive by the time we had left behind the industrial wastelands of Cheshire and reached Rippendon, the snow was still piled up by the roadsides up in Yorkshire. The Cricket Asylum itself is in an old converted mill, it was certainly not where we expected it to be! you had to take an old fashioned lift up to the 4th floor and then suddenly you open the door and there's this state of the art cricket facility inside. What else would you like to know Dave??
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Post by Someblokecalledave on Apr 9, 2013 16:16:50 GMT -5
What were the simple and effective drills and what was the main gist of the session?
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Post by goldenarm on Apr 9, 2013 17:16:20 GMT -5
The main gist of the session was really just me showing the guy what I could do to be honest and letting him see what problems were apparent! I've been bowling leg breaks for 6 years now so I have a reasonable action and know my game pretty well. I just have some consistency issues that I suspected had to do with small but potentially fatal flaws creeping in to my action.
Drills wise the one I found the most useful and fun to do was when the coach strung a line of bunting 3/4's or so of the way up the net and a bit more than half way along, and then we marked out a driving square in front of the batsman and put a square target thing on the top of off stump as a bonus.I then had to bowl my leg breaks over the rope. It was a really good way of making sure you're getting it above the batsmans eye line and an excellent test of getting the ball to dip down in time to pitch inside the square. Whilst I was doing this we were referring to real time video in between deliveries and reviewing what I was doing right and wrong. I found the main problem i had was that I was flinging my front arm over to the side rather than at the target and I wasn't following through enough. So we did the classic standing start drill for a bit just to groove a slightly corrected front arm and then built up to putting it into the full action. It sounds like the sort of thing you could do anywhere but having that expert eye there makes a big difference, and having all the technology and toys helps a hell of a lot.
What I took away with me at the end of it was that I have to put all my energy into my follow through and not get lazy in my action and keep things compact and controlled at the same time, all directed toward the target. I improved just in the time I was there. Really effective training methods I thought.
Another interesting thing was actually being able to see the speeds you're bowling at, I always guessed I might occasionally be bowling into the 50's but I think I was kidding myself. Early on I was bowling about 38 mph, this is pre being warmed up, and then by the time I had a proper sweat on and was giving it everything I was getting up to about 49-51 MPH consistently, which was pretty quick I can tell you, I'm not a slow, toss it up kind of leggie by any means. (I know my youtube videos show me bowling slower but that was off a walking run up taking it very easy, off my full run up I bounce in and try to really fizz it down there) How these guys at County/International level bowl leg breaks/ off breaks at 55-60 mph + is just amazing.
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seems like a good place from the reviews I have seen. Where abouts are you from?