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Lawn Bowls

1. A rest or resting shot involves using bowls at rest to obstruct the bowl in motion so that it stops in a favorable position. The wider the cluster of bowls, the easier the shot. A wresting shot has more impact speed than a resting shot. Both the wresting and the wrested bowl tend to move and diverge after impact. Bowlers can sometimes wrest or push one of their own bowls into a more favorable position. They can sometimes force an opponents' bowl within the head to a position less favorable for them.

Wresting shots need enough velocity to achieve their purpose. Fast wresting shots usually become dead if they are off target. Slower wresting shots can yield ‘live’ bowls in receiving positions if they miss their target. Players of the team that is shots down may try to engineer movement of the jack towards their receiving bowls once they have receivers in place. This tactic is often productive where opponents have a ‘toucher’ on the jack. To avoid movement of a close opposin...

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