Perhaps one of the most frequently-sought articles about the sport of curling, Bill Tschirhart’s Drills to Die For describes 18 different individual and team drills that you can utilize in coaching your athletes. The drills include: Circle Drill, Line Dancing, Crazy 8’s, Keep Away, Las Vegas, Horse, Hide and Seek, Pop Goes the Weasel, Picket Fences, Hot Shots, The Great Shoot-out, Scotch Twosomes, Radar O’Reilly, Climb the Ladder, Progressive Hogline, The Cash Bonspiel, Bocce Curling, and Pickup Sticks. Drills to Die For is essay #37 in Bill’s A Pane in the Glass series.
Brushing footwork: a case study
Brushing is arguably the most under-rated and under-coached aspect of the game of curling. In 2010, Paul Webster of the Canadian Curling Association posted an article detailing the optimal body…
The research behind instrumented curling brooms
Author’s note: This is joint work with John Newhook, Department of Civil and Resource Engineering, Dalhousie University. Over the past two years I have had the privilege to work on…
I Had It, Lost it, Gotta Find It Again!
We’ve all been there! We had draw weight in our back pocket (or wherever you keep valuable possessions) but lost it and have to get it back a.s.a.p.! What to…