Article Contents
- 1. The bodily sport
- 2. Technical and tactical components
- 3. The psychological sport
- 4. The challenges of being a bowler and a coach
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Over time, I’ve had the chance to be a coach at varied ranges in athletics. I’ve been a energy and conditioning coach within the weight room for center faculty, highschool, collegiate, {and professional} athletes. I’ve additionally served as an assistant coach and head coach at three completely different faculty bowling applications, together with the one I at present coach at, Hobart and William Smith Schools, which is a Division III NCAA bowling program.
Teaching in all of those environments has taught me simply as many classes as I’ve taught my student-athletes. With the success of many ladies on the PWBA Tour who’re additionally coaches—similar to Shannon O’Keefe, Josie Barnes, and Lauren Russo, simply to call a number of—there isn’t any doubt in my thoughts that being a coach also can result in changing into a greater competitor and athlete on the lanes.
We all know that people can have completely different studying preferences, starting from visible to auditory to kinesthetic. I’m a agency believer that every of those studying types is magnified once you train the ideas and rules of a sport to others. When entering into the position of a coach and educating bowlers the bodily, technical, tactical, and psychological elements of the sport, your personal bowling sport also can reap advantages.
Listed below are among the key classes that teaching has taught me personally through the years that I’ve used to enhance my very own bowling.
The bodily sport
Teaching the bodily sport can positively aid you make adjustments to your personal bodily sport. When I’m serving to a bowler with their bodily sport, we frequently study movies in gradual movement and go over varied drills to interrupt down their footwork, timing, armswing, or launch. After I’m educating drills, I’m additionally reminded to do these drills myself to maintain the foundations of my sport strong.
Lately, when Josie Barnes captured the 2025 USBC Queens crown, she talked about in an interview that she would by no means inform her student-athletes at Vanderbilt College to do one thing she wouldn’t do herself. The most effective coaches usually use themselves as guinea pigs, experimenting with new …
