first off read before commenting, recently ive noticed more and more things that bug me a lil. how many of you tend to agree.

1 im tired of seeing bowlers show up for league with a 6 ball bag with all high end heavy oil balls drillled ball out and then complain when the shot breaks down and the lanes hook too much.

2 tired of people doing very little reserch about bowing balls and seeing the numbers and basing a ball choice off that without knowing what the numbers actually mean or how they affect ball reaction.

3 cant stand to see HS practices with coaches settng reading a book not giving any effort to teach bowlers the fundamentals or the pure basics of the game.

4 i see way to many people being screwed on new balls with bad drillings, where the driller just punches a ball up without watching the style, rev rate. or knowing bowlers PAP, and not paying close attention to spans and pitches, even drilling it to the way they wanted not the bowler.

5 whats your?

how the game is so damn inconsistent...like in how in 1 frame everything that was working for you just stops and you have no clue why...and can't figure it out

Customers that come into the pro shop and you have to spend 20 minutes explaining to them that what their "friend that averages 200" told them is wrong.

The guy that came into my pro shop and debated with me that the guys he bowled league with were so good at that center that Chris Barnes would have no chance against them there. 

This is a much harder thread to reply to than it seems at first.

 There are SO many things that bother me about bowling, but I also understand that I am one of those people who dives into everything full force, and I don't tend to understand those who do not.

 I guess I will just stick to the one subject that bothers me the most, the fact that the governing body has allowed technological advances to change the sport so drastically from what it was, into what it is now.
 Bowling has changed so much in the last 20-25 years, that it barely resembles its former self, and many of the things that made bowling an attractive activity to the masses has been lost in the translation from one form to the other.

 Bowling is/was one of those things that "got it right" the first time. It was simple to play, easy to love, yet challenging and hard to "master".  While some changes that left bowling's basic form close to the original (changes like lane finishes going from lacquer to urethane, or balls going from rubber to polyester, things that were equally beneficial to ALL participants) were reasonable, allowing changes to the game that totally changed the way it was played, or favored one group over another, should not have been tolerated.

In line with St. croix, when you're on the approach, in your stance, and dimwit to either side of you step up on the approach, either to wait for you to go or grab their ball off the return. I stop, turn to them, and they give me this dumbfounded look, like why did they do wrong.  Then they get a short lesson on bowling etiquette.

 I would Like to 1+ Bobohio 

I live In ILL. they must offer the coaching jobs for any sport to a teacher 1st, since they are paid positions.  I am a Usbc Silver certified  with a background check etc.

I can not even help in practice for free unless I have a child on the team and that still takes an act of congress.

I do know some Usbc coaches who have had the position for years but they have been around for a long time and no teacher wanted the position.

How can the Student get better when  the teacher/coach have no idea how to even bowl. and that goes for all sports In ILL. They take it for the extra money.

I do have a  friend who teaches in a ILL H.S. and coaches both boys & girls Soccer plus Girls Basket ball. He does get a nice kicker $ for each sport that is why he does it. Plus he never played either in his life.

Just the sorry state of public education under Union  and Liberal control

Yes I do understand they think they are protecting the student But there are ways to let good people still help out

Just my .02

Can't speak to the high school thing (yet) but I am similarly bugged by junior leagues. My son did the second half of junior league last season at one house and is doing league at a different house this season. So my complaint is consistent. It is that there is virtually no teaching. Not of the junior juniors anyway. And if there is the briefest of interactions it is generally limited to 'keep your arm straight'.

I am generally horrified by some of the kids form. Throwing off wrong foot, not learning one lane courtesy, and other basic, fixable fundamentals. And they are never addressed. I can't lay all the blame on the 'coaches' because there may be only one of them for all the kids. So the main goal is to make sure they're throwing in the right direction. So what bugs me is the lack of attention or resources paid to the youth bowler in general. That's where the future is, not trying to get 40 something's like me to start playing in more leagues.

The other thing that bothers me is parents who let there kids run wild during open bowling. Example: my son and I went to practice on Friday night at the house we were doing an adult junior tourney at yesterday. So they put a young family with three kids that had to be 6 and under right next to us. Many times all three kids on the lane at the same time. Wander over to our side. Sitting down at the foul line. Parents not saying a word. I would have NEVER gotten away with such behavior when I was a kid.

I'm a junior league coach, and a volunteer high school coach.  One of my peeves is that I am here to coach, and it dumbfounds me that parents bring their kids to our club to learn how to bowl, BUT the parents coach the kids from the back.  When i'm addressing an issue with the kid, they are staring back at their parent the whole time and not listening to anything you say.

During one of the HS tournaments, one girl would only listen to her grandfather and not listen to her coaches.  Needless to say she did not qualify.  Another girl who I expected to medal decided that she knew exactly what to do, but was struggling with 3 opens in a row and none of her first shots even hit the head pin.  Told her what to do and she shot three strikes in a row and then a 9/, but she was obviously mad at me and showing it blatantly.  Then she told me she wanted to do something else, so being that she was mad, I told her to go ahead.  Open, open, open again.  She did not medal and wasn't even close.  I did tell her that I was disappointed with her performance, but more so with her attitude. 

Let the coaches coach.