All of bowling requires special shoes called bowling shoes and the main reason for that is that bowling in your everyday shoes will not work for bowling floors or lanes. Bowling floors are not made regular shoes. Bowling floors are slick sometimes and not made for your everyday shoes. In bowling you should be sliding to the foul line but not everyone does that and that’s why we need to use bowling shoes. Bowling shoes are built for bowling, it is built for sliding and the floor for bowling. On the bottom of bowling shoes is material made for sliding and stopping. This material cannot get wet. This will mess up the bottom of your shoes and stopping you from sliding.
The best thing that you can do is get your own shoes. Renting shoes from the bowling alley is not the best shoes to wear and you don’t know who was wearing them. Getting your own shoes should be something you should have anyway for bowling. You get what you pay for and this works also in bowling shoes. The high price bowling shoes last longer, slides better and feels better when bowling.