Some thoughts on practice for student-athletes
To achieve sufficient skill as a competitive student-athlete, coaches will often recommend or insist that athletes spend a certain amount […]
Delivery
Visualization of stone rotations for athlete feedback
This article is joint work with John Newhook of Dalhousie University in Halifax. It is well known that the number
Delivery, Technique
Delivery mechanics and take-out weight
One article that Bill Tschirhart left out of the book “A Pane in the Glass” is this one, entitled “The
Curling shoes: choosing a slider
A curler has two primary pieces of equipment: a brush, and a pair of curling shoes. In golf, multi-million advertising
Delivery, Equipment
The Junior hack
This afternoon I helped Jason Rice and John Tartt run a Club Coach refresher course at the Guelph Curling Club.
Delivery, Technique
How many rotations?
Just how many times should a curling stone rotate as it moves down the ice? Ideally, during a delivery a