Aw jeez...delete that before Hammer sees it. Don;t get him started on BowlVersity!
Good for when you bowl in the outdoor bowling centers. Also good if the clinic is being put on by homeless people. This was a "youth camp" right?
I would disagree with this....almost entirely.
If you take a bowling lesson (WAY different than a guitar lesson...and yes I've taken years of music lessons)...your coach, if good, is watching for any number of various issues. If they know what they are doing, they are going to work on maybe 2-3 things at a time. Not all 43 at once.
When I got a lesson from RobM...he gave me 9 things to work on over the next 5 months. He specifically said 2-3 times...that normally he would NOT give me that many things to work on at once...but since I wasn't going to be back in Vegas for many months...he made an exception. My current coach gave me 4 things to work on over the course of 3 weeks...and after seeing how "in my own head" I can be...after the 3rd lesson reduced it to a maximum of 2 per 3 weeks. I can guarantee that these coaches could find 40 things I need to work on. No problem. But working on THAT many things at once...idiotic idea. Take it from an idiot that has tried.
The advantage to having regular coaching is you may struggle with something. And if you do, and probably will, you need to go back and work on that again or MAYBE....the coach takes a different path. For example, I had trouble staying low on my release...so the coach wanted me to keep the side of my slide foot on the lane (to keep me from rising up). But I had to "sweep" it and not "kick" it. I tried that for 3 weeks and found that as I was focusing on "sweeping", I wasn't squaring my shoulders and was dropping the ball right. So instead of continue down that path...the coach changed the approach to focus more on being a bit higher...but not "bobbing" up and down....staying level. Still trying to get low...but not making it such a priority that it messed up my release. Then we started focusing on timing instead of staying low.
Coaches can see where you've made progress and where you haven't as well as what bad habits you're developing. Anyone can give you 2-3 pointers...the higher level coaches can modify their pointers to make your game better. Thats how I know a good coach from a bad. A bad coach will say, "Okay...here's how I bowl. Do THIS and you'll be a better a bowler. The End." A GOOD coach will figure out how YOU bowl...then systematically "adjust" YOUR game to maximize it. That takes time.
Chris Barnes gets lessons. I often wonder what a coach tells Chris Barnes since most coaches tell students to "watch how Chris Barnes does it".
Sidenote....you being a guitar expert...
My old list of Top 5 Guitarists ALL-TIME was:
1) Eric Johnson
2) Randy Rhoads
3) Zach Wylde
4) Ted Nugent
5) Slash
However, I was recently thinking of revising it to:
1) Roy Clark
2) Eric Johnson
3) Rany Rhoads
4) Zach Wylde
5) Ted Nugent
However....I saw a list of "Top 30 Guitarists Ever" and it didn't even LIST Rhoads, Johnson, Wylde, Nugent, OR Clark!! Sure, it had some guys that would be in my top 10 like Slash (my #6), Les Paul (my # 8), Eddie Van Halen (my #9), and Santana (my #10). But I don't see how in the WORLD you can put a top 30 list together and not have Rhoades, Clark, or Johnson on it. Thats absurd!
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