Short description
Reveals the secrets of fast bowling and explains how it is possible to simultaneously bowl fast, straight, and accurately. This bowling manual explains what part of your body generates pace and why holding onto the ball longer is effective. It shows how to bowl effective bouncers and yorkers, and discusses what to do in practice and what to avoid.
Long description
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. It is written by one of the world's best fast-bowling coaches. It is well illustrated with sixty photographs and thirty-four diagrams and drawings. It explains what part of your body generates pace and why holding onto the ball longer is far more effective. It unravels the mysteries of advanced biomechanics as they apply to bowling, and reveals how to bowl crushingly effective bouncers and yorkers every time. It discusses what to do in practice and what to avoid, and analyses how to train and exercise in order to produce the best results. It illustrates all the correct grips for each delivery so that you get it right every time. It 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.
Review
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