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10/29/2026

🎯 BE THE TEAMMATE EVERYONE CAN RELY ON.

When the game gets tight, your team needs you to keep making good decisions, trust your bowls and respond when things don’t go to plan.

You don’t have to play perfectly. Nobody does.

But you can train how you respond when the pressure arrives - so you have something to draw on when your team needs you.

And that’s where MatchMind comes in.

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The Core Kit gives you the MatchMind system. Membership helps you build it into your game, with practical tools to develop your mental game over time.

Because being a reliable teammate isn’t about never making mistakes. It’s about how you respond, recover and approach the next bowl.

Ready to train your mental game?

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10/26/2026

What sort of decision maker are you? 🤔

When you're choosing a shot, do you trust your instinct? Weigh up every option? Look for reassurance from your skip? Or start wondering if there's a better choice just as you're about to deliver?

And is that any different from how you make decisions in everyday life?

We've put together a short exercise to help you explore your decision-making habits both on and off the green.

Your chance to notice what you do, when you do it, and whether your habits change when the game starts to matter.

Because here's the thing: the way you decide today doesn't have to be the way you decide tomorrow.

Recognising a habit gives you the chance to choose how you want to respond and practise that response before you need it.

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One bowl. One decision. One commitment.

10/20/2026

Are you having an “if only…” moment?
“If only I’d played that bowl differently.”
“If only I’d made a different decision.”
“If only we’d closed that game out earlier.”

Our MatchMind Moment this week is the “If Only…” moment - the one you might still be thinking about today, after this weekend’s games.

After our post about being five shots up going into the last end, lots of you shared what happens emotionally when a lead slips away. Thank you it’s really helpful to be able to share 💕

So, what happens when the game is over, but you’re still playing it in your head? 🙇‍♂️

Do you replay the bowl? Imagine a different outcome? Go over what you could have done differently? Or threaten to dump your bowls in the bin?!🤦‍♀️

Looking back can help us learn. But when you keep returning to the same moment without finding anything new, you can end up reliving the disappointment rather than learning from it.

So, are you learning from the game, or are you stuck replaying it?

We’re exploring why some losses stay with us, how they can affect confidence and enjoyment, and what we can do to move forward.

More on this soon.

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10/19/2026

IF ONLY… when you can’t stop replaying the game.

“If only I’d played that bowl differently.”
“If only I’d made a different decision.”
“If only we’d closed that game out earlier.”

Our MatchMind moment this week is the “If only…” moment. That one that you’re still thinking about today after this weekends games.

After our post about being five shots up going into the last end, lots of you shared what happens to you emotionally when a commanding lead slips away.

So thinking about that, what happens when the game is over and you’re still playing it in your head?

Do you replay the bowl? Imagine a different outcome? Go over what you could have done differently? Or do you threaten to dump your bowls in the bin?

Looking back can help you learn. But when you keep returning to the same moment without finding anything new, you can end up reliving the disappointment rather than learning from it.

So here’s the question: are you learning from the game, or are you stuck replaying it?

We’re exploring why some losses stay with us, how they affect confidence and enjoyment, and what you can do to move forward.

More on this soon.

Ready to find your mental edge?
Check out our MatchMind website and join our weekly newsletter for the latest in bowls mental performance. Get started today at www.matchmind.co.uk 👍

MatchMind helps bowlers handle pressure, reset after mistakes and stay connected to the bowl in front of them. Practical mental performance tools for focus, confidence and the moments that change a match.

10/14/2026

FIVE SHOTS UP. LAST END. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? 😳

I watched a game the other night that was a brilliant reminder of how quickly a match can change.

One team went into the last end five shots ahead. They’d been in control for most of the game.

Then the opposition built a head that gave them options to score five.

The team in front looked to tighten up. They only needed their fourth bowl to do the job. But suddenly, the opposition had a real chance to take the lot. Not just to draw but win.

And the ending? The team held on, but only after an opposition bowl knocked one of their bowls into third and locked the head up.

It could have been a very different result had that bowl been a couple of inches inside.

🧐WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR LEADERS?

So what happens when you’re five shots up and suddenly have something to lose?

Are you still playing to make your bowl, or have you started playing to protect the lead? I won’t explain that here we’ve shared a lot about why that happens and what you can do about it.

The goal is to recognise when the Moment changes, reset, and give your attention somewhere useful to go.

That’s why we train the mental game alongside the technical game. So you are ready for moments like this.

🎯 And if you’d like to understand more about what happens to performance when pressure and mental fatigue build, there’s still time to join this week’s free MatchMind newsletter.

We’re sharing what happened when we put a performance club squad through pressure training challenges and what you can take into your own competitive games.

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10/13/2026

Find out what happened when a performance club squad were put under pressure and the three things that changed their performance.

We put them through pressure training designed to feel as close to a real game as possible.
They started well. Then something changed. The self talk was interesting too!
“I'm shattered.” “I'm getting worse.” “My brain hurts.”

It wasn't simply about fatigue though.
It was about what happens when physical effort, mental effort and pressure start to accumulate.

We're sharing what we saw and more importantly, what you can take from it into your own competitive games.

For bowlers: what can you train so you're better prepared when the conditions change?

For coaches: what can you build into training to help your players recognise and respond to those changes?

Join the MatchMind newsletter to read this weeks insight.
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10/12/2026

“I WAS PLAYING UTTER GARBAGE!” 😄

An experienced, competitive bowler was five ends into a difficult game. Their attention was everywhere, they’d stopped trusting their routine, and they were getting caught up in their own head.

Then they did something really interesting that turned their game around.

What happened next? And what can we learn from it?

Read the full story to find out. 👇

Started a bowls game badly? Turn it around. Discover how frustration and overthinking affect your performance, and why recognising your patterns matters.

10/08/2026

“It was amazing… I was utter garbage. So I thought ‘reset’.”
One of our MatchMind Members shared this with me after their league game yesterday.
They had a little notebook with them, so they went back to something they’d used before - giving themselves a score for each bowl.

And then something interesting happened.
They became “very good in one direction and then, I was back to my best bowls in both directions…the process of challenging myself seemed to do the trick.”

I love this. Because they hadn’t suddenly discovered a new technique.
They’d already worked on their Reset.

This time, when they recognised they needed it, they used the notebook to give their brain somewhere useful to go.

Instead of getting caught up in analysing what had just happened, they had something specific to focus their attention on the next bowl, the process and the challenge in front of them.

And because the analysis was going onto the page, rather than running around in their head, they could get on with delivering the next bowl.

That’s what I love about the Reset.
It isn’t about pretending everything is fine.
It’s about recognising what’s happening and giving yourself somewhere useful to go.

Recognise. Reset. Respond. And keep playing.

So, like our MatchMind member, your whole game doesn’t have to become ”utter garbage.” 😄

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10/05/2026

I forgot my Reset and it caught me out in a bowls game big time. 😩😖
I’d trained it. I knew it. I’d used it before.
But about five ends in, I played a bowl that was just… not quite.
And in a blink “not quite” became “not good enough”.
I started analysing. 🧐
What happened?
Why did that happen?
What did I do differently?
And before I knew it, I was creating pressure for myself without even recognising it.

The frustrating bit? 😖
I thought my Reset was strong.
What I realised afterwards was that I’d built my Reset but I hadn’t kept training it.

And that was a pretty big reminder:
Knowing what to do isn't the same as doing it when you need it. 🤔

So I went back to work on mine.
And this week, I’m sharing the full, honest story with our newsletter subscribers including what I discovered afterwards and what I’m doing differently now.
Because we all need a reminder sometimes. 😊

And if you want to train your mind like you train your skill, this one is worth reading.

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