Practicing with a Purpose

1. Practicing with a Purpose - Presented By - Tom Zernia

2. RULES • Feel Free to Step Out • Break Police • Silence your Phone • Story Time Discussion Based

3. Coaching the Modern Bowler Important Topics for the Junior, High School and Collegiate Coach

4. Roles of a Coach • Mentor • Communicator • Public Relations leader • Friend • Role model • Leader • Educator

5. Coaching Styles • Command style • Barks orders, what to do, how to do, when to do it. • Submissive • Shows little interest in bowlers • Cooperative • Active communication between bowler and coach to develop an athlete

6. Learning Styles • Visual (sight) • Kinesthetic/Tactile (body, motion) • Auditory (sound)

7. Learning Guidelines • Don’t Condescend • Non-verbal communication • Allow questions • Allow choices • Listen • Build on Experience

8. Learning Guidelines • Determine Specific Goals • Set the environment • Beware the 20 minute learning window • Extend learning retention • Select the approach that works

9. Set Practice Expectations • Do you have Expectations for your Practice? • Examples of West Bend West & Cedarburg Program Expectations • Commitment! • Come to practice to Learn & Grow • Learn proper release • Learn spare shooting • Be at practices & be on time • Eliminate distractions i.e. cell phones, MP3 players etc.

11. Beginning Practice Session Is Bowling a Sport? YES!!!!

12. Beginning Practice Sessions • Since we are a sport we need to have warm ups prior to bowling! • Dynamic stretches versus static stretches • To start a practice use dynamic stretches • Jumping jacks • Lunges, Side Lunges • Leg Swings • Arm circles • This gets muscles warm and is proven to increase bowlers performance & less injuries.

13. Drill Work • Build strong fundamentals through the use of drills. • 6 Drills to develop fundamentals • Kneel Down Drill • Balance Line Drill • One Step Drill • Push away Drill • Tempo Steps • Practice Swing Drill

14. Practice zones 6-10 Zone 4-7 Zone 2-4-7 Zone 3-6-10 Zone Cross over

15. Spare Shooting Time! • The importance of spares in a baker format • Spare shooting techniques • 4, 8, 12, and 3,6,9 • Strike target 3, 6, 9 10 pin target 3, 6 • Using the 4th Arrow • Your own style • Make your bowlers learn movements! • All Bowlers make the same moves regardless of skill level or style.

16. Spare Shooting Time! • Make Spare shooting fun and challenging • Fun • Contests for prizes for individuals • Contests for prizes for team • Challenging • Set a Goal for Individuals • Use tracking sheets • Or Scorers on • Put a bumper up • Make them throw their most aggressive ball • AMF machines

17. What Makes a Good Spare Shooter ? • Leaving a makeable spare. HIT THE POCKET ! Make the spare. ACCURATE SPARE SHOOTING ! Spend as much time setting up to make a spare as you do for strikes. Randy Stoughton Gold Coach. Kegel Training Center.

19. Lane Play

21. Lane Play • Get your bowlers out of their comfort zones! • Communication & Observation • Conditions • If you have the ability, put out different conditions • Sport conditions • Challenge conditions • No condition • 3 Point Targeting PL - 31

22. Lane Play • Play different lines • Play straight up the boards • Mark lay down and arrows with tape or target tools • Put tape down lane outside of line • Play different angles • Mark angles with Tape or Target Tools • Challenge your bowlers to play crazy angles • Deep inside angles • Outside angles

23. Lane Play • Key’s to success in practice with lane play • Turn Scoring off! • It is not about STRIKING! • Its all about CONSITENCY • Can you hit those 2 pieces of tape 10 out of 10 times?

24. Wrap up with having fun! • Bowl baker games • Bowl doubles or triples • Last man standing • Low Ball • Simulate Competition play • Need a Strike right now • Anchor bowler we need you to strike out • Etc.

25. WHICH STEP HAVE YOU REACHED TODAY ?

26. Cool Down Stretches • Static Stretches • Legs • Shoulders • Upper Back • Wrist

29. West Bend East/WestHigh School Team Rules

30. 1. Be on Time! Tardiness needs a written excuse from your parent or teacher. 2. Practice: Refer to schedule for dates/times of practice and meets. No practice on meet nights. Practice starts at 3:30 and ends at 5 pm. That means in uniform, on the approach ready to start practice. Practices are CLOSED SESSIONS. Parents are welcome to observe the practices the last 15 minutes, but should refrain from interacting with the bowlers during the practice session. Coaches are trying to teach a variety of techniques and would like everyone to be open-minded. Coaches are willing to discuss concerns with parents after practice, in order to give consistent advice to the bowler. Early dismissal needs to be cleared with your coach prior to the start of the practice or meet (Shopping, haircuts, etc., are not excuses to leave early). You must stay until the practice (or meet) is over. Dress Code at practice is the East/West Bowling T-Shirt 3. Absent from school/practice - You will need to contact your coach by cell phone/text (before practice) on the day of the absence. This is the ONLY way you will be excused. This is the athlete's responsibility. If this is not done, an infraction will be given. Coach Zernia (262-689-8585) email: lighthouseproshop@gmail.com Coach Guillaume (262-306-0152) email: 0096kidzgmail.com . Coach Herther (262-224-8755) email: mherther@wbsd-schools.org Coach Anderson (262-707-6551) email: kanderson@wbsd-schools.org Coach Trinkle (262-305-2680) email: tom_trinkle@gmail.com Work, shopping, babysitting, etc. are not excuses for being absent. Please try to schedule doctor/dentist appointments around the practice or meet. If there is a conflict with the practice or meet, you will need to discuss this with your coach .

31. 4. Infraction - Un-excused absence = sit out 1 meet (and so on) • For un-excused absences = dismissal from the team. • Not practicing, excessive talking/inappropriate behavior will lead to dismissal from practice and/or dismissal from the team. • 5. Eligibility: In order to be able to compete the day of the meet: • You must be in school before the end of 4th period. • You must have attended the last practice prior to the meet. • If you missed the last practice and it was un-excused, you cannot compete in the meet. • 6. Cell Phone. I-Pod. MP3 Players: These items may not be used at practice or meets. If you are caught using these items, you will be given a warning. Second offense, you will miss a meet. Third offense, you will be dismissed from the team. • 7. Dress code: Hats are not allowed at practices and meets. Undergarments should not be visible. You are required to wear your bowling shirt and dress pants to school on days a meet occurs. Remember, when you are at practice or meets, you represent your school and King Pin Bowl. • 8. COST: School Fee $25.00. Team Fee $150.00, Due before 1st meet (November 6) or arrangements made with your coach for payments. Team fee should be given to your coach. Make Checks payable to: Your School Name Bowling

32. Please sign and return this form: Athlete Date Athlete Signature Athlete contact number cell Athlete email address Parent / Guardian Date Parent / Guardian Signature Parent / Guardian contact number cell Parent / Guardian email address Available AM PM c

33. High School Feeder Programs • Middle School Bowling Programs • Grade School Bowling Programs • USA Bowling • In Center Youth Programs • Bowler’s Ed Program

34. Coaching The Champion Bowler BCAW 2013 Dean Hinitz, Ph.D. Every bowler who shows up on the field of play brings his/her self, equipment, and his/her “team” to every competition. The “self” is comprised of an individual’s training, ability, and psychology. Equipment is self-explanatory. “Team” is an athlete’s experience of his/her support network, including coaches, teammates, friends, and family. No matter what level of competition, families that support each other properly have the best experiences, and oftentimes the best results. The same is true for the student/coach relationship. Whether a coach is present for an event, or present in a child’s mind, virtually every youth player carries a sense of his/her coaches, and all that comes with that, to every game. The following is a set of guidelines and principles designed to maximize the support, growth, and freedom to play of your youth bowler.

35. The Principles 1) Your bowler can see, feel, and sense your facial expression before, during, and after shots. You must be able to unconditionally support and appreciate your athlete’s participation in the contest. They should never feel that your encouragement, liking, or love is based on performance.  2) You are the pilot, remain calm under all circumstances. Your bowler is like a passenger on your airplane. Flight crews and passengers take a read on the pilot’s response to turbulence and the demands of travel. Similarly, your reactions to shots, lane conditions, and fair/unfair results, will steer your bowler’s responses and effectiveness in the competition environment.   3) Although you are “wired” to mentally, physically, or emotionally react to your student’s game, learn to develop distance from immediate events. For instance,Parents react to any significant event in their child’s life, e.g. the first bike ride with training wheels, falling over on that bike, a made or missed spare. Your ability to create some psychological and emotional distance from the immediacy of competition will build a supportive environment, as well as teach your athlete to respond more effectively when competing.  4) Refrain from too much coaching input during competition. By and large any input you give during a tournament is experienced by your bowler as judgment and pressure. This can be exceptionally difficult to reel in when you can see what is happening on the lanes. The exceptions to this are if the relationship you have allows for this level of input during competition, or if he/she is actively asking for help.

36. 5) Wait for a period of time following any event to give your analysis or feedback. When emotion, high or low, is running, there is little room to absorb information. Especially, if things did not go well, your feedback will be taken as criticism. Give some time and space. 6) Emphasize the importance of your bowler’s reactions to their shots and game well beyond the importance of results. Great shots and great results come and go. The only thing that lasts is character, attitude, and resiliency. You must be consistent around the behaviors and values that really do work in the long run. Teaching mental toughness is critical.   “Most would wish that they had made that spare. I wish that I would have reacted better to it.” Lonnie Walizcek commenting on a missed washout spare that cost him a PBA title 7) When results are great, ask if anything could have been done better. When results are disappointing, focus on what was done well. In either case, allow for some time and emotional settling to occur.

37. 8) Share in goal setting, mental game preparation, and behavioral expectations. Before league play or a tournament you can have a discussion about sportsmanship, employing good mental game principles, and how to react to shots. If you or your bowler waits until the competition lights are on to do this, it’s too late. He/She should have a plan for demeanor, reactions, and sportsmanship. 9) Combat “choking” by emphasizing that the most valuable and courageous quality is the willingness to train, prepare, and put one’s self on the field of play, not on makes and misses. Few people have the commitment and fortitude to train like champions, and to risk themselves by entering competitions. If pride is appropriately placed on these character qualities, it de-pressurizes particular performance shots .  10) Make a plan ahead of time for the nature of coaching contact during the competition. Discuss whether or not there will be contact, connection, feedback, or even encouragement during competition. Bowlers are prone to over-interpret the meaning of everything a coach or parent does. Discuss ahead of time the meaning of being quiet, or leaving to get food, or anything else. Bowlers are prone to assuming that everything you do is related to how they are performing. I’ve never felt my job was to win basketball games - rather, that the essence of my job as a coach was to do everything I could to give my players the background necessary to succeed in life. Bobby Knight

41. How to read a Lane Pattern Program sheet

42. How to read a Lane Pattern Program sheet

43. Reading a Program sheet • Start and Stop = Left End and Right End of Stream • The width of a load

44. Reading a Program sheet • Ld = Number of Loads or Streams • How many applied to the lane

45. Reading a Program sheet • Sp = Travel Speed of the machine in inches • Kegel lane machines have six available speeds

46. Reading a Program sheet Start F. and End F. = Beginning and End Distance of Load FT = Footage Total

47. Reading a Program Sheet • TOil = Total amount of oil applied • Calculated in micro liters • 2960 micro liters = 2.96 milliliters

48. SERIES

49. MIDDLE ROAD 4239 In political terms, this pattern is centrism in nature because the characteristics lie between the extremes of having to play too far to the right or too far to the left. The MIDDLE ROAD is a 39 foot pattern that is moderately challenging; it’s not too easy and it’s not too tough. The best mindset and line for this pattern is usually somewhere near the middle of the road. Latitude Ratio Coordinates 22’ 4.2 to 1 37’ 3.2 to 1 Longitude Ratio Coordinates Outside Taper 4.0 to 1 Inside Taper 2.9 to 1 Pattern Distance 39 Feet Pattern Volume Forward 11.90 mL Reverse 10.95 mL Total 22.85 mL

50. MIDDLE ROAD 4239 Latitude Ratio Coordinates 22’ 4.2 to 1 37’ 3.2 to 1 The 2D chart on the left was generated by Lane Monitor showing select tapes and ratios at key distances throughout the pattern. USBC Sport Bowling ratios are calculated at 22’ and 2’ before the end of the pattern. All Latitude Ratio Coordinates are calculated from these two distances. Latitude ratios in the last half of the pattern can be an indicator of the difficulty of a pattern. Generally, the lower the ratios down lane, the more difficult the pattern. Longitude Ratio Coordinates Outside Taper 4.0 to 1 Inside Taper 2.9 to 1 The 3D chart below was generated by taking tapes every foot of the pattern. This gives a visual of how the conditioner tapers off from the front to the end of the pattern.