Ronald Machniak has been with The Right Approach Pro Shop since 1987. Through the course of his employment he has become an Assistant Manager of several of the Company-Owned Pro Shop operations and Field Manager of Envy Lawn Service, Inc. In that Ron has most recently been nurtured by over 200 hours of one on one hands-on training with Mo Pinel, Ron's dynamic balancing techniques are among the best in the world!!! He is constantly using our DeTerminator (number two off the line) in order to hone his dynamic balancing skills! Ron is even able to duplicate ball reaction using this tool !!! Soon we will have a name for this unmatched feat!!!!!
Mr. Machniak has attended numerous seminars presented by Mo Pinel (currently of morichbowlingdotcom) and Tom Laskow (most recent Past President IBPSIA) for AMF, Ray Edwards and Bill Wasserberger of Brunswick. Ron has also attended various Columbia and Storm Seminars. He is Certified by Ebonite and has satisfactorily completed numerous seminars given by William Supper, Randy Stoughton and Brian Purcell.
In the art of bowling ball plugging, no one can do the job better than Ron. He matches colors and patterns perfectly to the ball in process. Ron can machine the ball down to within .005" of being round. This is a better spec than on some brand new bowling balls right from the plant!!!! Further, Ron is Certifed by the Deerfield Bowling Academy to do bowling ball plugging and has acquired ball plugging skills that insure proper handling of ball plug for the customers greater bowling enjoyment.
For the past twelve years, Ron has been a Bronze Level Coach. This coaching certification was earned first through USA Bowling and now USBC. Most recently Ron has assisted Mo Pinel (President of Morich Industries - www.morichbowling.com) and Del Warren (Currently with Kegel Training, USBC Gold Level Coach and Founder of The Pure Approach Bowling Clinics) in analyzing local students games.
Ron's award scores include numerous 290's, 299 (1), 300 (3) & a high series of 813 (289,246,278).
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Joe Dyer runs our bowling clinics called "Learn the Curve." Joe is USBC Bronze Certified. Joe received his Bronze Certificate through Cary Pon at Whitmore Lanes in Whitmore Lake, Michigan. Joe is also Certified through the Dick Ritger Academy at Level One and Level Two. Both and Mr. Dyer and Mark Mohacsi received their Academy Certificates through 20-time PBA title holder, member of the Professional Bowlng Association and the American Bowling Congress Halls of Fame, Dick Ritger himself! Joe has personal highs of 300 and 815. Mr. Dyer is currently employeed by BASF after receiving his degree from Madonna University. Joe majored in Chemistry and minored in Physics.
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Mark also has sucessfully completed numerous workshops. One of the most historic was The Ebonite Technical Training Workshop. This workshop was held at the Ebonite Bowling Ball Manufacturing Plant in 1993. Fourteen of the most dominant Pro Shop Professionals from around the country were included for this rare tour/educational event. Besides Mr. Mohacsi, this Ground Breaking Workshop included, among others, Gary Barber (CJ Pro Shop, Middlesex, New Jersey), Jerry Francomano (Carmen Don's, Alexandria, Virginia), George Gervase (Star Pro Shop, Addison, Illinois), Kenn Krug (Kenn's Pro Shop, Oak Lawn, Illinois), Charlie Finch, Terry Engel, and Joe Cerrar. The itinerary of this workshop included an unrestricted view of the entire Ebonite Facility. These functions included overseeing design, manufacturing, packaging and accounting functions. The shipping department was not among the areas that the group toured.
Mark's Instructional certifications include a Level I, and a Level II Rating from The Dick Ritger Academy. Further, Mark has earned the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) Coaching Certifcations at Level One, Level Two, Bronze, and Silver.
Mark's accomplishments include numerous City titles, two State Titles and inclusion on the Michigan Intercollegiate Bowling Conference All-Conference Team for the 1981/82 Bowling Season. Additionally Mark has high games of 290 (2), 298, 299 (2), and 300 (4).
During his collegiate years, Mark was Coach and Captain of the University of Michigan - Dearborn Bowling Team. In 1984, Mark Graduated with a Bachleor of Science in Administration from the School of Management at the University of Michigan with a triple major!!! Most graduates have a major and a minor. Mark has three majors!!! These three fields are Managerial Economics, Finance and Accounting.
Over the years, Mark has accumulated several nick names. His mother, Hall of Famer Mary Mohacsi, coined the term "Marco Polo." Perhaps due to his swimming talents in the family pool. Public school years saw him acquire the name "Hachi-Critter" due in part to his schoolmates inability to properly pronounce Mark's last name and his accumulation of pet rodents. During Mark's college bowling days, his nick became "MRMARK" in that he could throw a strike or convert a spare on less than favorable lane conditions. [A custom license plate with this nick now resides on the rear bumper of Mark's 1967 Gran Tourismo Omologato (GTO)]. During his tenure on the IBPSIA Board of Directors, Jerry Francomano (currently Texas Station Bowling Leader) gave Mark the nickname of D-I, (Dee-Eye). One would have to be present at one of the IBPSIA Board meetings to appreciate this nick. His employees gave Mark the "NICK" (u know who u r) of MRMARL due to someones mistaking the "L" on the Brunswick Scoring Alphabetic Keypad for a "K." His most recently acquired nick is Mighty King of the Mill 2. Another lengthy story resides therein.
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Joe Dyer runs our bowling clinics called "Learn the Curve." Joe is USBC Bronze Certified. Joe received his Bronze Certificate through Cary Pon at Whitmore Lanes in Whitmore Lake, Michigan. Joe is also Certified through the Dick Ritger Academy at Level One and Level Two. Both and Mr. Dyer and Mark Mohacsi received their Academy Certificates through 20-time PBA title holder, member of the Professional Bowlng Association and the American Bowling Congress Halls of Fame, Dick Ritger himself! Joe has personal highs of 300 and 815. Mr. Dyer is currently employeed by BASF after receiving his degree from Madonna University. Joe majored in Chemistry and minored in Physics.
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Mark Mohacsi is one of only 108 Technically Certified Bowling Ball Drillers in the world!!! These Certificates are issued by the International Bowling Pro Shop and Instructors Association (IBPSIA). Mary Mohacsi, after over 40 years of continued dedication to developing bowlers, has retired from regular day to day operations of the Company. Mary currently is not scheduling appointments.
Sadly, Mary has been ill since April of 2006. She has had to curtail many of her activities and recently had to withdraw from a bowling league due to health reasons. This is a first. Please pray for this fine, humble lady as you see fit.
A graduate of Detroit's own Wayne State University with a teaching Certificate, she taught Physical Education for the School Districts of Detroit and Clarenceville until 1977. Initially, Mary taught at Cody High School in Detroit. She left Cody in order to raise a family. While en-absentia from teaching, she married a Ford Motor Car Company Engineer by the name of Theodore and had three children. Once her children's lives got off on the right foot, she applied to Clarenceville School District and was accepted as a Physical Education Teacher. Soon thereafter, she was the Edgewood Elementary School's Boys Basketball Coach. Mary also refereed many games in an unbiased capacity. As further testament to her athletic prowess, she ran the Presidential Physical Fitness Award Program for the School.
In addition to these responsibilities, she was tapped by The Detroit Times and The Detroit News to do coaching at local clinics for aspiring bowlers. The clinics were free for bowlers, and all each bowler had to do was pay the hosting Bowling Center for the linage. All of the selected instructors were remunerated by the newspaper publications. These instructional clinics were held in the month of August-just before the start of the fall bowling season. These clinics were well publicized in the newspapers during the sixties and seventies in the Metropolitan Detroit area. Financial issues with the newspapers caused these programs to be terminated.
After over 15 years of teaching elementary, junior high, and high school school students, it was Mary's second calling to open her first Pro Shop. This she did 35 miles from her home with fellow International Hall of Famer, Cora Fiebig. Three years later, she had an oppurtunity to purchase a Pro Shop right around the block from her family home. She did so. With her son, Mark. Thus The Right Approach - Bowlers Pro Shop was born.
Having a teaching background, Mary firmly believed in researching Pro Shop Operations in order to be the best at what you do. Mary and Mark (attending the University of Michigan-Dearborn during this new pro shop opening) bought any and every book written on Pro Shop Operations available at the time. These titles, among others, included Balance and Fitting and Drilling a Bowling Ball by Bill Taylor and The Profitable Pro Shop by Larry Lichstein and the Schumacher brothers. Because of the thorough research done by Mary and Mark so long ago, it has been said (by two bowling ball manufacturers, no less) that the standards of her stores are too high. Nothing is too good for Mary and Mark's developing bowlers.
Being a Four-Time Hall of Famer, her accomplishments are numerous. She has been featured in Bowlers Journal, The Women Bowler, Bowling, and even SKY - the Delta Airlines Inflight Magazine!!
Mary's accomplishments include being named to the Bowlers Journal All-American Amateur Team in 1984 and 1985. (As captain in 1984.) In that same year, she was named Female Athlete of the Year for the Sport of Bowling by the United States Olympic Commitee.
Hall of Fame Inductions include -
- 1978 - Detroit Bowling Hall of Fame
- 1982 - Michigan Womens Bowling Hall of Fame
- 1984 - Michigan Amateur Sports Hall of Fame.
- 1994 - Women's International Bowling Congress Hall of Fame.
Over the course of the years, Mary has earned several nicknames. The first of these was "Joe." This nickname was given to Mary by her father. Another nickname Mary received was "Mrs. Mo." This nick was given to Mary by her students in Elementary School because some of them could not pronounce her last name. At some point in time she picked up the nick "Queen Mary" as testament to her being Queen of Women Bowlers for the Detroit Women's Bowling Association so many times. Her nickname in international bowling circles became "Mary the Rock" because she was so solid at the line and for the consistancy of her performances.
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