Totally agree.
I'm smart enough to be a teacher...I'm experienced enough to instruct youth bowlers...but I wouldn't do it because I don't think I'd be good at it. Coaching takes patience and flexibility. Two thoughts from my previous coaches...both PBA Pros/former Pros:
"You have to adapt coaching to the bowler. If you keep trying to fit a bowler into a certain mold...eventually they'll give up."
"Most bowlers that come to me for instruction are either averaging <140 or >195. Low average bowlers aren't having success and know they need to get better. High average bowlers know they need to improve their game to score higher. Bowlers in the middle have all had just enough success to think they don't need coaching."
"Coaching, especially bowling, is about results. If a bowler is getting coaching and sees positive results on the lanes...they will continue to pay for coaching. But, as soon as that bowler starts to struggle on the lanes...they will stop getting coaching and go back to what they did the last time they scored well."
That 3rd one is important and why think so many bowlers never get better. Very few bowlers are willing to get worse in order to get better.
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