No such thing a text book game. All these amateur coaches teach out of a USBC text book, and have no real world bowling application behind their coaching. I''ve never been in favor of reading a training manual, plunking down your $, then taking a test to become a coach. That never sits right with me. There is something wrong in just about every top level professional. I have yet to watch the perfect bowler, throw the perfect ball.
There is simply no way a human is going to produce the perfect physical game. There is no amount of training that will allow somebody to even come close to achieving that.
There is so much variance from the text book that a bowler can get away with and still be one of the top players, and there is very little reason to change their game to try to even perfect it more, because perfection is impossible.
Repetition trumps perfection. If you have a relatively good game, and you can repeat it. Your going to go far.
People get way to caught up on swing planes, drift, hand inside the ball and other stuff that is not always the big picture important. If you can get the ball from point A to point B, I do not care what it looks like.
Watch Mike Lichstein bowl, I wouldnt bowl him for $5. I like $5 in my pocket.
A little less nit pick on peoples games, goes a long way.
Edited on 12/27/2010 8:16 PM
Edited on 12/27/2010 8:18 PM
