I don't offer unless asked. Many ask for help and without even going over to their pair I will tell them what I've seen the past few weeks and how to correct it. Their response? Why didn't you say something? My answer is always the same. My job is to assist you when you want help not when you don't want it.
Any observant, fairly knowledgable bowler can tell you that you're doing something wrong. Usually it takes a coach to tell you why you're doing it and how to properly fix it. Cause and effect.
While this bowler probably had great intentions your game isn't his game. What he knows is what has worked for him and not necessarily has the highest percentage of success to work. Such as being in the stance with the right foot ahead of the left for a right handed bowler. It will work effectively for less than 1% of the population yet this "good bowler" had you do it. For some reason bowlers seem to think only good bowlers can coach. Unlike any other sport. Rhino Page and Dave Wodka among others have Ron Hatfield (Gold) as their personal coach. He aveage 223 on a THS so should they drop him? Does that make him less knowledgable than some of the memebers here because they average higher? Well he didn't become an international winning coach becaue he lacks the brains.
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