Definitely.
(Just ask Walter Tan at Marina Superbowl)Shoes are more important than balls. You use them all the time when you bowl, they are the base on which your foundation is built (literally AND figuratively), and a good pair allows you to configure it to meet the challenges that different approaches offer.
The two main ways bowling shoes affect ones game:
- the slide
- the push-away step
SlideThe smoother your slide the smoother your release. And the more consistant it is, the same goes for your release. Good shoes does this for a bowler. This is especially so if one is a smooth heavy ball bowler or a spinner, because their power comes directly from the effective transfer of body weight and momentum.
Push-awayProper shoes have a rough surface on the non-sliding foot to enable bowlers to propel their body with force towards their target. This is how power is created.
I encourage getting good shoes as soon as possible. If you have to play with a houseball while wearing personal shoes, so be it. The bad habits picked up from wearing lesser shoes are far more difficult to correct later than those enculcated from a poor ball.
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