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[More background to the LegSpin Horror Epic. Similar disclaimers as to lack of coaching yadayada.] If you've read Body Pivot - Why? and are convinced (or intrigued), have a look at my bit of badly remembered 1st year university physics in the post 'rotary motion'. Now imagine viewing a bowler...

A short bit explaining how forces cause something to rotate. The reason for doing so will become clear in another thread. In (a) a force acts through the centre of mass of the object, causing it to be accelerated in a linear direction. In (b) two equal and opposite forces act at a separation...

[Hi - this is some of the reasoning behind some of the stuff in my "LegSpin Horror" bout of verbal diarrhoea. Similar disclaimer - I've never been officially coached and not seen much of the stuff I'm writing about discussed *in so many words* by proper coaches, however I think my theoretical...

Symptom: It was going brilliantly only a day/week/month/season ago and I thought I'd cracked it. Suddenly now nothing feels right and it's all over the place and embarrassing, I feel like I'm back to square one and might as well give up and just become yet another passable-but-dull dibbly-dobbly...

Symptom: The line and length are both ok, but it just seems to flop out without any venom. It feels like I'm spinning fresh air as the ball has already gone, and I don't seem to have enough control over the release. Suggestion: This is almost the opposite problem to getting stuck side on unable...

Symptom: I'm bowling some nice balls, but every so often I seem to fire this horrible loopy waist-high full toss outside leg stump. Suggestion: You are getting stuck side on, and trying to put oomph in and complete your action without, as it were, starting it. Your arm is trying to come over but...

[some background] I'm pretty much entirely self-taught, except for occasional bits of advice, not always good or helpful, from well-meaning proper players. I've got to the stage now where it's generally coming out rather nicely, even really well in the nets, although not always yet in matches...

I just wanted to throw out a theory that has been forming in my mind for some time. Hopefully this is of interest of itself, but also has profound implications for how you grip the ball and go about trying to improve your action to get maximum revs. I hope it won't be too wordy or physics-y for...

Anyone else out there find that the hardest damn thing is to persuade captains (a) to pick you, and (b) to bowl you ahead of any number of dibbly--dobbly merchants?!