Making it official

[Flessan]

Negative, they just provide the lanes and the time...

[idlehourlegend]

With Bronze basically its like the Kindergarten of bowling, you learn the basics, your fully capable to coach newer bowlers and beginners, but not so much the more seasoned bowlers. I have the Bronze, have since I was 14, just I think I've told 3 people total, I took the course and when I got done with it I was mad that I paid for it because I already knew all of it, it was all just basics your taught when you first start to bowl. Never had the push to take the Silver etc. for that reason, I know with me personally I feel that more expierienced bowlers shouldnt go to anything less than a Silver coach or an older bowler with a lot of expierience thats been doing it a long time. I know a lot of people around here are Bronze certified and think they know everything when they really are just beginners themselves, theres a big difference between a bronze coach thats been bowling a while and knows what there talking about and a bronze coach that just knows whats in those books.

My advice would be to get the bronze certification, but also look up to see if theres a Silver coach in your area and ask him/her if they still have their books and read up on the information thats in those books too, just because you dont have the Silver certification, doesnt mean you cant know just as much as a Silver certified coach. Its a lot cheaper too lol.

Sorry for the long post, just my $.02.

[HammerTime7288]

Originally Posted by TenPinSniper

ASEP??? I'd like to see the link to the information on that one.

As you can see your USBC was way off...

When I did the old Level 1 Coach Course, Leader Led it took one day. It was actually pretty complete. It's the base for them to build off to step up to Bronze.

yeah I know my USBC stuff is way off now.. in fact it's good to know that because I want to look into it anyway.

ASEP has nothing to do with learning about bowling, it's first aid and such. It is required by the state to coach a high school team of any variety. I am saying if the OP is confident in their ability to coach and doesn't want to go the USBC route, they can check out getting certified and coaching for a HS team.

If my work paid coaches (all volunteer besides youth coordinator) then I would look into the USBC program more. I may do it for my own information later on in life.