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...)