"Crowood Sports Guides" provide sound, practical advice that will help make you a better sportsperson whether you are learning the basic skills, discovering more advanced techniques or reviewing the fundamentals of your game. Featured in this book are: Valuable advice on practice, skills, techniques, team spirit, self-control and all aspectys of playing bowls. Photographs of top players in action. Information boxes containing Key Pints and Useful Tips. Sequence photographs and detailed diagrams in colour. Introduction to rules and equipment. SELLING PINTS: A step-by-step guide to bowls that provides sound, practicak advice to help a person become a better bowler. Aimed at all those interested in bowls whether just taking up the sport, or those at more advanced levels who wish to leaqrn new techniques. Superbly illustrated with 194 colour sequence photographs and detailed diagrams. John Bell played bowls fro England for twenty-one years and is currently team manager of the England oputdoor team. AUTHOR: John Bell played bowls for England for twenty-one years (outdoor 1978-1998; indoor 1983-1996), and for his native Cumbria for nearly forty years. He has competed in five World Championships and in two Commonwealth Games and has won four World gold medals and two bronze. Along with many other honours, John has held the British Isles, European and English outdoor singles titles. He mananged the England men's outdoor team at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games. 194 colour photos and diagrams