How many sports can the family play together and all compete without age or gender being a barrier? Mostyn Davies says bowls is fun for all.

Someone once said about bowls that you can learn to play in an hour but it takes a lifetime to master.

Thats a fair summary for a sport most of us have tried in one form or another from the garden game like boules or petanque to the school playground marbles, curling on ice or even the old western horseshoe-at-a-stick version.

Basically the competitor who gets their ball / wood / stone / horseshoe nearest the target wins. It's as simple as that.

Bowls is having an explosion of interest since the indoor version of the sport hit television and there are more young people taking it up than ever before.

Like other very popular sports, it's cheap and you won't have to travel far to get to a bowling green or even an indoor stadium.

Men and women can play the game together so it's an ideal family sport.

Hardly a village in Wales doesn't have a bowling green or two - there are 25 indoor venues stretching the length and breadth of the principality and 297 clubs using outdoor greens, most of them in the south east.

In South East Wales there are indoor stadia at Newport, Cardiff, Cwmbran, Merthyr, Mountain Ash, Pontypridd, Pontllanfraith, Sully and Bridgend.

All of them welcome newcomers to the sport and every club using the stadium has coaches who are only to keen to teach people the rudiments of the game.

You don't even have to buy the woods to begin with because they are available for hire.

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