If you can roll a ball, you can play bowls. Everyone can play: young and old, men and women, the fit and the not so fit. It is the individual outdoor game that really is a sport for all. What other sports can grandparents play on equal terms with their grandchildren? What other game is so simple that you could take up it today and be competing in the national championship tomorrow? Simple? Perhaps that is not the right word. There are bowls players in their thousands who will tell you that, although bowls is a game that anyone can pick up in five minutes, it takes a lifetime to master it. They are the people who have developed a passionate interest in the game .However for outsiders, bowls is another word, and a strange and puzzling one. They see a bowl game in action and wonder what is going on. What the players are trying to do is easy to explain. Their aim is to roll their bowls, called wood, as near as possible to the little white ball, called the jack. If one of your bowls finishes nearer to the jack than your opponent's, you score one point and he or she scores nothing. If you have the two nearest, you score two, and so on. The skill involved in rolling a bowl that weighs around 2 kilos across about 40 meters so that it stops only a very short distance from the target is just as impressive as the skills required in other sports.
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