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akt22

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meeting people at bowling.and bowling clinics
« on: July 18, 2010, 01:00:11 AM »
First of all I just had the my bowling coach clinic yesterday at orland park yesterday and It was such an inspiring event.  I'd like to thank Fred Borden, Ron Hatfield and John howland for organizing the event.  If anyone was there yesterday, I was the facts guy, dubbed by fred, that kept asking him many questions.  ANyway it was such an honor talking to fred borden.  It wasn't his vast knowledge that impress me the most, is was how he delivered it and I came away more impressed just being in the prescebce of such as man than the actual learning.  Oh don't get me wrong, I learned a lot from him, maybe a bit too much lol, but being able to connect to him as a human being was what I truly took away from the clinic.  My only regrests were not seeing him sooner and the time we spent on the lanes, which was still good but I felt I wanted more lol.

So I gotta ask is meeting too many people like Fred bad for your game?  I love talking to Fred but i know I can't see him everytime and I know there are many people like him in this sport who are just as easy to connect as others.  I would love to see them but I'm concerned that too many of these guys might hurt my game because of too much information.  Is that the case?

Is there a central hub to where I can go that lists clinics to meet these kinds of people.  I like ballreviews, but it's too disorganized for such a thing.  Is there like a main site that lists where all the clinics and get togethers are held?  I know bowl.com use to do it but now there just a mess lol.

Thanks again.

 

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Re: meeting people at bowling.and bowling clinics
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2010, 10:01:29 AM »

Wow.

Take a deep breath, and relax a little.

LOL

Work on the information you received that you remember most, and which specifically pertains to your game, whether it be a part of your game that needs improvement, or a part of your game that is already solid, but adding a little wrinkle to it just makes it that much better.

And work only on one thing at a time, otherwise you'll get very frustrated and get nowhere fast.

Learning the game of bowling, much like learning the game of life, is not a massive sprint to the finish, but rather a very long and dragged out mega marathon—a race that will truly hurt since it’s fraught with mistakes (there’s no better way to learn than making mistakes and finding out how to effectively correct them), but in the end make things worthwhile because the knowledge gained will be sustainable and repeatable.

After all, repeatability is the mother of genius.

You’ll get there—don’t rush it.

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Re: meeting people at bowling.and bowling clinics
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2010, 10:03:27 AM »
Is it bad for you, no, not necessarily. What I have learned is that there is a lot of knowledge to be had, but some of it is conflicting. I would only find it bad if tried to use knowledge from both sides of the fence.

 While this may not make sense to all, some of you may know what I am talking about

SrKegler

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Re: meeting people at bowling.and bowling clinics
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2010, 08:53:25 PM »
We have the gathering each year hosted by one of the top 100 coaches in the world, Ron Clifton.  

Look for the post, the gathering 2k10.
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Re: meeting people at bowling.and bowling clinics
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2010, 10:52:03 PM »
Part of the problem with knowledge of all sports or athletics is that what is
accepted knowledge today will be changed soon.  An expample of this is in track
and field, where all high jumpers used to use the western roll--now try to find
one.  In bowling most people my age spent a great deal of time learning to hit
up on the ball.  Now?  Things change, so my advice to you is to try to keep it
simple and adapt to the future.