Bowling
shoes come in left-handed and right-handed styles. This
may seem slightly confusing to someone new to the sport –
after all, don’t bowling shoes go on your feet? Why
should it matter whether you are right or left-handed?
Yes, bowling shoes do, quite obviously belong the feet of
bowlers. Nonetheless, it really is important whether or not
the bowler is left or right-handed. You see, one bowling shoe
is a sliding shoe, and one needs to be more of a braking shoe,
a shoe with traction. A right-handed person will have a right-foot
shoe with traction and a left-foot shoe that slides.
One reason why this information may be new to you is that
the bowling shoes that you rent at bowling alleys are not
made specifically for right-handed players or left-handed
players. Rather, both bowling shoes have soles similar to
the sliding shoe of a good pair.
It can be well worth buying your own pair of bowling shoes,
ones specifically designed for a right or left-handed person.
With the rental or loaned pair, you are liable to slip around
on your approach. This is bad, because it does not allow you
to get complete the power step, that next-to-last step, the
step that drives you forward and into the slide, the step
that requires some traction.
There are many people who would suggest buying a pair of
bowling shoes before you even make the commitment to buying
a bowling ball! They really are that important. Besides, do
you really want to put your feet into bowling shoes that have
been drenched with other people’s foot sweat and stench?
When choosing your bowling shoes, you are going to need to
make the choice between performance bowling shoes and athletic
bowling shoes. Athletic bowling shoes are going to look and
feel like your other athletic shoes. Most athletic bowling
shoes have sliding soles on both the left and right shoe.
If, however, you plan on bowling once a week or more, you
are going to want to step it up and buy a performance bowling
shoe. You are not going to be able to reach your full bowling
potential if you stick with athletic bowling shoes. If, on
the other hand, you get a pair of performance bowling shoes,
with one traction sole and one sliding sole, you are going
to achieve higher performance.
If you see competitive bowling in your future, it can be
well-worth buying a pair of bowling shoes with interchangeable
soles. With interchangeable bowling shoe soles, you are going
to be able to make your feet and your bowling slide match
your bowling style as well as the surface you are bowling
on.
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