Lesson 8

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Spare Targeting

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Lesson Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate a focus on targeting spares to help the student avoid low game averages.

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Instant Activity:

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Lesson:
1.  Review what a spare is
2.  Review strike targeting
3.  Introduce spare targeting (the same idea as strike targeting)
4.  Spare Targeting Drills
5.  Keys to success for spare targeting

• recognize spare leave
• translate spare leave
• choose target point & touchdown point
• take appropriate setup location
• turn feet parallel with target line
• focus eyes on visual target
• execute well
• analyze results
• adjust target line if necessary
• repeat execution

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Spare targeting drills:
1.  Call Shot Game
*group management:

• two or more persons bowl per lane, or pair of lanes

*instructions:

• before rolling first ball, declare how many pins you will leave standing.  If you leave standing the exact number of pins you declared, you get 10 points.  If you leave any other number of pins standing, your opponent gets 10 points.  If you declare and make a strike, you get 30 points.  Any time you roll the ball into the channel, your opponent gets 5 points.
• your opponent must try to convert your spare.  If successful, your opponent gets 5 points; if not, you get 5 points.
• each frame, you and your opponent alternate rolling the first ball.
• on separate game lines of a scoresheet, keep track of the points-not strikes or spares-that you and your opponent get.

*goal:

• outscore your opponent with as high a score as you can bowl.

*decrease difficulty:

• let student bowl without opponent

*increase difficulty:

• let student bowl two or more games using this declared pin and point system

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