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Metro bowling centers try to score with younger set

Muir adds bowling to gym activities

Muir adds bowling to gym activities
By Erin Johnson
STAFF WRITER

There are plenty of physical activities that can be done during school gym class. Volleyball, basketball, floor hockey or even a game of indoor kickball just to name a few. One activity not on that list, though, is bowling. At least, it wasn't on the list until now.

Students at Muir Middle School are spending their gym class time this week bowling and they don't even have to leave the gym. The school is using bowling equipment from Community Bowling Centers in Livonia.

The equipment consists of 30-foot long carpet lanes, plastic bowling pins and rubber bowling balls, complete with different sets of holes for different size fingers.

Ted Ramsby, youth development leader for the company, said the bowling program is relatively new and has only been around for about one year. He said the company provides the equipment and expertise in how to use it so that students can enjoy the experience.

Ramsby said about 300 schools across metro Detroit and Grand Rapids will use the bowling equipment this school year. He said the students receive a day or two of instruction and then the school keeps the equipment for one to three weeks.

"We let them have the equipment as long as they need," Ramsby said.
At the end of the unit, the students receive coupons to local bowling centers. Ramsby said the goal is to get the students interested in something they can do throughout their life.

"It doesn't matter if you're four or 84, he said.

He also said bowling doesn't require participants to be a certain sized or have a particular skill.

On the first day, Ramsby explains the basics. He told the students that accuracy and consistency are the most important keys to being a good bowler. He explained which fingers to use, how to hold a bowling ball, how best to swing and the four-step approach.

The students then got to try out the lanes for themselves Ramsby said depending on age level, younger students are allowed to stand on the lane when throwing while older ones do not.

The objective is to have some success," Ramsby said.


Thursday, November 11, 2004-MILFORD TIMES

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