michael, i respect shoeys comments & yours you both most of the time make lots of sense & yes i have spoken to someone from tbal & yes the reply was we need more money, well that doesn't sit well with me
you like writing a lot tell me in the last 2 years what advances TBAL have made to promote the sport & pathways for bowlers reach representative level
i read all the time from the die hards about how good the tbal is & the good things they are doing, fill me in mate, as for golf you are both wrong membership money go the the club for which you are a member & the pay the affiliation fees the the PGA promotes the sport & had in place programs for the aspiring future golfers
bowling has dedicated coaches like shoey, myself & hundreds of other coaches who devote their time to improve bowling in australia with no assistance from the TBAL with that i mean no program yet a level 2 coach told me a lot of the coaches really do not know how to coach correctly in order to bring bowlers to a representative level, perhaps i'm one of them i wont tell you my reply LOL. but i asked where is a coaches manual that coaches can use to fill the TBALs expectations or the national coach
let me know michael
just for your information a coach
lol, this all starting to become a bit chicken and the egg, I am not here to stick up for the TBA, as I dont always believe best practice has been completed at all times on various things, but in regards to what have they achieved over the past two years, you know as much as I do and most other bowlers in the country. What comes first, progress in the sport by magic or building a membership base to develop progress within the sport and try to repair and rebuild from previous damage? It all has to start somewhere.
The TBA person you spoke to is probably right, it takes money to develop programs and there just isnt enough money to spread around, people have to remember whichever membership you decide to join up to, that money gets spread around as much as possible between programs, distributed to states, promotion of the sport, running expenses, etc etc etc.
And this probably address your comment too Frank, what sport can you join and participate in on a competition level where it is okay if you dont become a member, register with some sort of organisation that runs and covers that sport. And by competition, I mean league and above. Membership shouldnt have to be sold, it should just be commonplace and it almost becomes an attitude thing that is so common place within bowling, whats in it for me, I dont get anything for being a member and nothing has been done in the past.
If we use the golf analogy again, how much is a yearly membership and then think of how that membership is dilluted through to various parties all the way back to the PGA. What percentage goes where and how is it used, does the club take the biggest cut to maintain administrative, promotion and maintenance costs and privelidges, does the rest go to the PGA and then they distribute funds to state bodies for lower level sport development? Obviously golf has a higher profile than bowling and can attract more corporate sponsorship, so perhaps the PGA isnt so reliant on its percentage of registered golfing members around the company, but the principles are still the same and should be looked at on a comparative level.
I read a few articles earlier this year about the difference between golf and bowling from back in the day and how bowling was a more popular sport for a long time.
I honestly cant think of another sport where if you wish to compete at a competition level, that you arent required to register or become a member.
Pete I agree more should be done and could be done and things are slowly being put in place, but realistically nobody should expect an overnight solution.
So again, my question is what do realistically expect to provided with from a membership fee so low that isnt already provided?
