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		<title>Short Mat Bowls</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a relatively new sport, short mat bowls is perhaps a lesser known type of bowling - but it’s popularity is growing! Having played crown green and short mat bowls since I was 15, I have seen more and more people of all ages getting involved due to the challenging yet fun and social nature of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Borat Plays Indoor Bowls</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although this is an old clip, I was reminded about this great episode of Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat character playing indoor bowls and just had to post it here. I love how he gets confused about "Jack" when he's being told about the indoor bowls equipment. Borat learns indoor bowls Stephen &#124; Myspace Video]]></description>
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		<title>When is a Toucher Not a Toucher?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 09:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I've had one or two questions emailed to me about the rules which apply to touchers in a game of short mat bowls; and I've also noticed that this is an area that generally gets talked about on a fairly regularly basis. So in an attempt to play peacemaker and resolve all of those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowls Video &#8211; How a Bowl is Made</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 17:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever wondered what a bowl is made of and how it's made? I recently found this great video which shows exactly what goes into the manufacturing and testing of a set of bowls. Check it out here: http://science.discovery.com/videos/how-its-made-7-lawn-bowling-ball.html]]></description>
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		<title>Team Positions &#8211; Skip</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To conclude our round up of short mat bowls playing positions, we move onto the position of skip. As the skip is the last player to bowl in any team, there is generally already a lot of bowls littered about the end and this can make it a lot more difficult to draw a scoring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Team Positions &#8211; Second and Third</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The responsibilities of the second and third positions in a short mat bowls game are essentially the same, so the strategies of both are covered in this next post in this series of short mat bowls playing positions.  The second and third positions are effectively there to support the lead. If the lead has managed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Team Positions &#8211; Lead</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keeping things in a sensible logical order, the first post in this series of short mat bowls playing positions covers the responsibilities of the lead bowler.  As a team, the ideal end is for you to achieve the shot wood as early as you can and then look to protect that counting bowl; and even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Mat Players Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWSFLASH! Just had to interrupt this series of posts about short mat bowls team positions to bring you this announcement. A new development has just taken place in the world of short mat bowls. A group of short mat England Internationals have formed the Short Mat Players Tour association, launching their website this month. To quote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Mat Bowls Team Positions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’re playing a game of short mat bowls as a doubles, triples or even a team of four, then there’s a fair amount of strategy and varying responsibilities that go with each position.  A singles game is a little different as there aren’t as many bowls involved in a match and the responsibility of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Short Mat Bowls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Short Mat Bowls</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For today's post, I've decided to go back to basics by writing a general overview of the rules to short mat bowls. I figured that because this blog is read by veterans and newcomers to the game, there should be some sort of introduction for anybody reading who might be thinking "what is this game [...]]]></description>
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