Bowling Safety and the General Public...

[panbanger]

I'm amazed at parents who pay no attention as their kids run around slightly drunken adults swinging 15lb weights through the air. Actually no, I'm not amazed lol! I was amazed 20 years ago or so, now it's just....open bowling.

[backlasher]

At our local alley, a young adult threw a 6# ball at about 30 mph and the cover cracked open. There was about 8 inches of white showing. Now there's a sign that the lower weight balls are for children.

[BDOG10]

Safety in bowling is extremely vast in nature.. first as a coach when dealing with both adults and children I like to start with approach safety in shoes and the effects on the approaches. To most bowlers in my area the league bowlers are constantly complaining about the approaches weekly. They are either to slippery or to sticky so I like to teach my students how to test to approaches prior to bowling and how to adjust to each extreme. Next when dealing with hand safety I like to make sure that I have them focus on the ball returns by educating them on lifting the ball with both hands, and lifting the ball away from ball pinch points. This will ensure that when balls are returning from previous bowler there will be no injuries.

[GeoLes]

So what is technically the correct way to do that? I only put my thumb in and then lift, with my fingers toward the "inside" portion of the ball return. I'm curious as to how you teach your students to do it.

I was taught to lift the ball with two hands and to craddle the ball in your non-bowling arm. insert fingers in ball all the way, transfer the ball to the throwing arm and immediately go into approach setup.

The key is to lift the ball from the sides away from the direction of the ball track. Just common sense to me.

[ecub]

You all are making it sound difficult. Just grab the ball in a way that your fingers/hands don't get smashed.

[Slabo]

Sometimes, I do see things that make me mad. But George Carlin may have been right... Nature takes care it itself. Maybe the kid who sticks his head in the ball return was never meant to be a doctor anyway... Hahahaha

Like Ron White says " You just can't fix STUPID! "