it's summer, and we all know what that means for a bowling center.  dismal open play fed only by dollar a game specials and much smaller league turn outs than over the fall thru spring season.  As much as I hate to admit it, my life is VERY boring over the summer.  I'm 17 and work at my local center, which means i have no school and about two to three work days a week.  outside of that the only thing i do to fill time when i'm not bowling my two youth leagues is to practice alone as often as i can.  I've gone through the cycles long enough and i'm ready to finally get off my a** and actually do something with my spare time.  

Now for a little background on my local center.  It is a newly remodeled fourty lane center.  My fellow employees are all great people and are like a second family to me.  we are an independent center so we try to rely more on customer service than our big name brand.  Our summer leagues are dismal in comparison to our fall leagues as we only run four leagues over the summer and are closed sunday and monday.  The management in our center seems to gear themselves more towards the open bowler for money and puts the emphasis of a bowling league on the backburner.  Now granted i'm not the management of my center, and i don't know the true inner workings of the financial scene.  I still can't seem to realize how open play is more important than the emphasis on the upkeep and formation of leagues.  

This is where i come into play.  I figure if our center wants to progress and step forward we must be proactive and reach out to our customers and that is where i come into play.  I was thinking of making coaching available publicly to anyone for FREE.  The way i see it i could set up a weekly set date to meet together with the bowlers who want to either learn some basics or improve certain aspects of their game, all the bowlers would have to do is pay normal open play rates and shoe rentals if necessary.  I would simply clock in and get paid my normal hourly rate for coaching these people and in return our center could gain the satisfaction in knowing that my efforts may bring a small number of new bowlers into bowling leagues that they wouldn't have previously.  Some people say i fall far and few between.  I just tell them i want to help the center any way i can and that i would enjoy the opportunity to coach willing people.  Is this too much to ask?  

thoughts, comments?
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"if you're so special why aren't you dead?" - the Breeders

Good and noble idea, but don't be surprised if takers are few and far between. You might actually get more students if you charge a nominal fee, like $5/hour, and then give them free rental shoes.


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The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
--Theodore Roosevelt