goguen@cheers.DEC (Don Goguen 381-2565) (01/14/86)
Here are some facts concerning bowling camps that are run throughout the country. This is from the brochure which they'll send you if you write. The time and money were well worth it!!! -- Don Goguen Digital Equipment Corporation Nashua, NH Mailing Address: Professional Bowling Camps, Inc. 5901 Warner Ave. Suite # 82 Huntington Beach, CA 92649 (714) 848-6610 Sites (in '85): Bradley Bowl Windsor Locks, Connecticut George Pappas' Park Lanes Charlotte, North Carolina Sequoia Lanes Columbus, Ohio ? Fond du Lac, Wisconsin (adult) Lakeshore Lanes Sheboygan, Wisconsin (junior) Celebrity Lanes Denver, Colorado Liberty Lanes Issaquah, Washington Charleston Heights Bowl Las Vegas, Nevada (Advanced Program) Various Staff Members: Don Johnson Frank Ellenburg Paul Moser Bill Spigner Paul Colwell Gary Dickinson Gil Sliker Pat Costello George Pappas Mickey Higham Mike Aulby Program content: Stance: 16-point check list Footwork: length, speed, type, direction of steps Timing: examples/reasons for good, late, early timing Armswings: assets & liabilities of different armswings Finish position: 13-point check list Ball Grips Release Different Rolls Ball Weights Playing the Lanes Spare Systems Mental Attitude Videotape Analysis Program: Sunday 1:00 - 5:00 equipment check, video taping, bowling 5:00 - 6:30 orientation dinner Mon - Fri 7:30 - 8:30 breakfast 8:30 - 9:00 lecture 9:00 - 10:00 1st squad: video review, 2nd squad: on lanes 10:00 - 11:00 reverse squads 11:00 - 11:30 lecture 11:30 - 12:30 lunch 12:30 - 1:30 1st squad: video review, 2nd squad: on lanes 1:30 - 2:30 reverse squads 2:30 - 3:00 lecture 3:00 - 4:00 1st squad: video review, 2nd squad: on lanes 4:00 - 5:00 reverse squads 5:00 - 6:30 dinner 6:30 - 7:30 question and answer session with staff some evening activities (Pro-Am, match games,...) Cost (in '85): Adult camp: $550.00 45 hours of instruction video taping and review professional analysis of bowling ball orientation dinner Sunday evening all meals Monday thru Friday (awards dinner Friday night) five nights accommodations (dbl occ), Sunday thru Thursday (I think I stayed 6... junior and advanced state 6 ngts) souvenir t-shirt PBC manual (63 pages) Junior camp: $495.00 (Advanced camp cost was $800. Program is quite different, and limited to 190 bowlers (185 for women), or previous PBC students. Quite a few campers at my site were returnees to the adult program. The advanced was only offered in Ohio and Colorado in '85...)