[net.sport] Bowling Camps

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...)