{"id":226,"date":"2010-11-06T13:29:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glennpaulley.ca\/curling\/?p=226"},"modified":"2011-11-11T17:06:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T22:06:16","slug":"where-to-find-curling-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennpaulley.ca\/curling\/2010\/11\/06\/where-to-find-curling-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to find curling shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curling shoes can significantly improve a delivery by allowing a longer slide, and thus a greater degree of flexibility in precisely where during the delivery to release a stone. If your son or daughter is interested in a pair of curling shoes, there are a number of retailers and distributors who can help you. Retail\/wholesale distributors\/manufacturers of curling shoes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldline.ca\/locations.aspx\">Goldline<\/a>, with its main store at 6620 Kitimat Rd, Mississauga, (800)-465-6900.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.balanceplus.com\/index.php\">Balance Plus<\/a>, located at Unit 1, 99 Hooper Rd in Barrie, (800)-715-1715.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asham.com\/\">Asham Curling Supplies<\/a>, 700 McPhillips Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, (800)-267-5730. Asham&#8217;s has an <a href=\"http:\/\/members.vaughandirect.info\/Asham_Ontario_Depot_Direct_Distributing-I\/\">outlet<\/a> in Vaughan, ON located at Unit 7, 9000 Keele Street, (866)-514-2875.\n<\/ul>\n<p>During a recent trip to Goldline at their main Mississauga store, I found that they had a fairly good selection of shoes in small sizes suitable for younger players, starting at women&#8217;s size 5, in three different models.<\/p>\n<p>It can be difficult finding children-sized curling shoes locally. The <a href=\"http:\/\/elmiracurlingclub.ca\">Elmira club<\/a> has a small <a href=\"mailto:proshop@elmiracurlingclub.ca\">pro-shop<\/a> but doesn&#8217;t regularly stock the smaller sizes needed for pre-teens and teens; they can be ordered, however, if you know what you&#8217;re looking for. The pro shop at the K-W Granite Club in Waterloo has more stock than Elmira, but again they tend not to stock the smaller sizes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had great success with Asham in buying shoes for my boys, though I confess I&#8217;ve done it while being in Winnipeg rather than shopping online. What I have found with Asham&#8217;s is that their customer service is second-to-none, so if the shoes don&#8217;t fit you can send them back, no questions. I have also found that Asham&#8217;s are willing to significantly discount items, including shoes, if they know that it&#8217;s for a junior curler. Make sure you mention it if you&#8217;re buying over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of points about shoes. There are a lot of styles of shoes (leather, synthetic) and <a href=\"http:\/\/glennpaulley.ca\/curling\/2011\/05\/22\/curling-shoes-choosing-a-slider\/\">styles of sliders<\/a> (&#8220;red brick&#8221;, solid Teflon discs, Teflon full sole, Teflon full sole with a doughnut, Teflon perimeter). Which shoe is right for you is a personal preference; I wear Asham shoes with Teflon discs, and so does my son Ryan, but my other son Andrew has Balance Plus shoes with a perimeter slider and he swears by them. The golden rule with Teflon sliders &#8211; the most common &#8211; is that the thicker the slider, the faster the shoe. What I would recommend is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Get the thickest slider you can afford, preferably 1\/4 inch. 5\/32 of an inch is the minimum I would go with. Stay away from stainless steel sliders, they&#8217;re not worth the money for a pre-teen.\n<li>The gripper (worn over the slider) has to fit snugly. A loose gripper is of no use, as it will fall off halfway down the sheet during brushing.\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you know of local locations from which to purchase curling shoes for young curlers, please post a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curling shoes can significantly improve a delivery by allowing a longer slide, and thus a greater degree of flexibility in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[56,57,58,306],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","tag-asham-curling-supplies","tag-balance-plus","tag-curling-shoes","tag-goldline"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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