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Check your shoes
« on: February 28, 2013, 09:43:43 PM »
Hello,

Didn't see the tiny kids sticker on my shoes and fell knees first onto the lane..... I'm a big boy so I'm hurting, but no major damage. Just a warning....first time I fell in probably 10 years.....

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Re: Check your shoes
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2013, 09:57:00 PM »

Ouch!  Reminds of the one time I tried bowling with a shoe cover on.  Not very graceful on that one, either.
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Re: Check your shoes
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2013, 10:21:50 PM »
Quote from: notclay on February 28, 2013, 09:57:00 PM

Ouch!  Reminds of the one time I tried bowling with a shoe cover on.  Not very graceful on that one, either.


Apparently I can bowl in those without much of an issue.  Normally I do a check slide with my foot before settling in on the approach, but last week I must have just gone through the motions to later notice I hadn't taken it off...

A test slide is a good addition to your pre-shot routine if you don't do so already.
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Re: Check your shoes
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2013, 12:21:50 AM »
One of the reasons why I line up on the approach with my slide foot is so that I can 'slide' into my setup position. This can usually alert me to any dangers.
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Re: Check your shoes
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2013, 06:49:15 AM »
I have it in my preshot routine to rub my slide shoe sole while taking a look at it to see if there is anything on it.
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Re: Check your shoes
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2013, 06:54:29 PM »
Quote from: cav on February 28, 2013, 09:43:43 PM
Hello,

Didn't see the tiny kids sticker on my shoes and fell knees first onto the lane..... I'm a big boy so I'm hurting, but no major damage. Just a warning....first time I fell in probably 10 years.....

Cav

Cav,

What is the tiny kids sticker you are referring to?  Something that came with the shoes or something that you stepped on?

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Re: Check your shoes
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2013, 08:32:48 PM »
Quote from: notclay on February 28, 2013, 09:57:00 PM

Ouch!  Reminds of the one time I tried bowling with a shoe cover on.  Not very graceful on that one, either.

Man, my team mate smokes so he went out to burn one, comes back, didn't take shoe cover off, and disaster.  Down on both knees, both hands.  Lucky he didn't break a wrist or hurt a knee.  Still sore four weeks after he did it.
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Re: Check your shoes
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2013, 11:11:23 PM »
Quote from: MI 2 AZ on March 01, 2013, 06:54:29 PM
Quote from: cav on February 28, 2013, 09:43:43 PM
Hello,

Didn't see the tiny kids sticker on my shoes and fell knees first onto the lane..... I'm a big boy so I'm hurting, but no major damage. Just a warning....first time I fell in probably 10 years.....

Cav

Cav,

What is the tiny kids sticker you are referring to?  Something that came with the shoes or something that you stepped on?

Stepped  on it while I was going for a quick drink..........didnt notice!

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Re: Check your shoes
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2013, 04:08:30 PM »
Hope you're all right. Besides being embarrassing it can be dangerous.

Quote from: notclay on February 28, 2013, 09:57:00 PM

Ouch!  Reminds of the one time I tried bowling with a shoe cover on.  Not very graceful on that one, either.


Also been there. Did it earlier this season and had to skip bowling 2 weeks and withdraw from a tournament because of what it did to my knee. It still wasn't quite right until about 2 months after it happened.
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Re: Check your shoes
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2013, 06:34:06 PM »
Had a scrape on my knee when I was younger, band aid over it... don't know when but at some point during the game it fell off. I'm on front 9 and I conveniently step on the bandaid and don't notice it until I practically faceplant at the line. Needless to say I was happy with the 6 count. Definitely a lesson to be learned
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Re: Check your shoes
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2013, 07:26:42 PM »
This reminds me of a time last year in league. I am a big man (350lb) and last year I was having Velcro on my slide shoe problems, the pads new and old weren't staying on properly. On my second step, unknown to me at the time, the pad came off my slide shoe and idk if you have ever tried the opposite side of Velcro on old wood approaches it is like ice skating with new NHL level skates. I went down, but luckily didn't let go of the ball so wasn't a foul.
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Re: Check your shoes
« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2013, 09:11:50 AM »
I've developed a habit where before I step on the approach, I simply tap the bottom of my shoe before I step up there, now it feels weird if I don't do it, even if I know it's fine haha. 
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