Personal Growth Through Bowling: A Leisure Occupation Analysis

This essay explores the benefits of bowling as a leisure occupation, highlighting its impact on personal development, physical fitness, and social skills. The author discusses how bowling breaks the monotony of daily life and enhances extracurricular abilities. The essay details the reasons for choosing bowling, its historical context, and its positive effects on muscle strength, coordination, and body balance. Furthermore, it emphasizes the social aspects of bowling, including increased social participation, teamwork, communication skills, patience, and confidence. The essay also outlines the training process, resources used, and personal experiences, noting the initial challenges and gradual interest gained. The author reflects on how bowling has fostered leadership qualities, responsibility, and strategic thinking, ultimately concluding that engaging in a leisure occupation like bowling can lead to a more enriched and well-rounded life.

INDEPENDENT PROJECT:
BOWLING
P R E S E N T E D B Y :

What is Occupation?
 A person’s usual or
principal work or business
(Oxford Dictionary)
Occupation is of two types
 Professional occupation:
Way of earing livelihood
 Leisure Profession: Extra-
curricular activity

Importance of Leisure Occupation
 Helps to break the
monotony of daily
routine
 Helps in the
improvement of extra-
curricular skills
 A way of extra earnings
My Leisure Profession
 Bowling

Why did I selected sports as leisure
occupation?
 In order to remain
physically fit
 In order increase my
communication skills
 In order to increase
my level of social
participation

Why I choose Bowling?
 Time factor: Bowling is an
indoor game and can be
played any time
irrespective of season
 Age factor: Does not
demand rigorous physical
activity like other sports
(cricket and football) and
hence suitable for my age
 Traditional quotient:
Dated back existence of
bowling

What is bowling?
 A sport or leisure activity
 A game of 10-pin bowling
divided into 10 rounds
(frames)
 The skilled targets (pins) are
required to be knocked down
by a ball
 If the first bowl knocks down
all the pins it is called a strike

How bowling enriched my
life?
 Helped me to increase my physical fitness
 Increase muscle strength and muscle
endurance: biceps, middle deltoid, posterior
deltoid
 Helps to increase the strength of shoulder
 Helps to refine the body posture and body
balance
 Hand eye co-ordination
 Trunk mobility
 Gross motor skills (shoulder flexion)

Other important aspects of bowling in my
life
 Coming in contact with several
groups of people from diverse
cultural background
 Increase in the level of social
participation
 Increasing skills to work as a team
 Effective communication skills
 Patience
 Stamina
 Concentration
 Confidence

Process I went through to learn bowling
 Basic warm up
 Mild to moderate physical training
 Stretching
 Meditation
Main activities include
 Overhead Stretch
 Wrist Flexion and Extension
 Cross Stretches
 Throwing the ball
 Maintaining body balance
Overhead
stretch
Wrist flexion and
extension
Cross
stretches
Throwing the
ball

How did I located resources
 First I located bowling training bowling club
The bowling club provided me other equipment and
tools of bowling
 Bowling ball
 Bowling pins
 Smooth bowling alley
 Bowling shoes
 Finger tapes
 Wrist guard
 Microfiber cloth to wipe the ball

Personal thoughts and experience
 Initially the experience was extremely
tiring and exhausting
 Gradually I started gaining interest in the
sport
 I experienced team planning
 Strategy making
 Social interaction
 Physical endurance
 Strength and stamina

One Personal Goal
Fulfillment
 Increase of patience
 Reduction in impulsive behavior