The Ontario Curling Council through the support of the Northern Ontario Curling Association is offering a Curling Canada Game Umpire workshop (formerly Level 2 Umpire training) on November 29-30, 2024 at the Port Arthur Curling Centre in Thunder Bay. Registration Registration is done through Curling I/O and the registration link can be found on the […]
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Erin is the new Manager of Programs and Operations for the Ontario Curling Council, taking over from longtime manager Jennifer Ferris who has taken on a full-time role as the Sport Safety and Education Officer with Curling Canada. Erin Jarvis’ career is a proof to her enduring passion for sports, spanning over three decades and
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The Ontario Curling Council is offering a theoretical Ice Technician workshop the weekend of February 9-11, 2024 at the Aylmer Curling Club in Aylmer, ON. Deadline for registration is Friday, February 2. Individuals who are interested in a full- or part-time career as an ice technician are encouraged to register on this site on the
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The Ontario Curling Council (OCC), along with its member associations, the Ontario Curling Association (CurlON) and the Northern Ontario Curling Association (NOCA), is seeking to add to our team of NCCP Coach Developers for delivery of NCCP coach education in Ontario. Delivery of coach training requires: The ability to connect with people in a positive
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A long-standing line of delivery (LOD) drill used in curling is one where the athlete delivers a stone by sliding between a series of markers (cones, cups, or stones) to practice line of delivery. We term this drill the “gauntlet drill”. When coupled with a point laser and video recording, the gauntlet drill is an
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This article is joint work with John Newhook of Dalhousie University. In curling, a point, or “dot”, laser is (nearly) essential to the setup of several drills, most commonly the “gauntlet drill”. In the gauntlet drill, the laser acts as the “target broom” to which the athlete throws their stone, and at the same time
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This article is joint work with Dr. John Newhook, Dean of Engineering, Dalhousie University. In a previous article, entitled “Dryland Training for Closed Brushing Footwork”, we described a simple, wheeled apparatus that an athlete could use to practice closed brushing footwork in the off-season. The closed footwork trainer assists an athlete in (1) keeping their
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This article is joint work, and part of a continuing research project, with Dr. John Newhook, Professor of Engineering at Dalhousie University. We are grateful to Alison Poluck and Monica Graham for their demonstrations of closed technique. Most importantly, we would like to thank Fraser Reid, former Canadian university champion and now a coach at
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Several Ontario teams have acquired or built dryland footwork trainers to better develop their closed brushing footwork technique during the summer months, so that they are trained and ready-to-go when ice becomes available in the fall. Note: the Junior curling season will be here before you know it; the first week of the Trillium Curling
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Since publishing the first article about the footwork trainer in June, a number of people have asked for more detailed specifications and additional photographs so that they can construct their own. The trainer itself is simple to construct. The parts list is as follows: two 30-inch wood pieces of 2×6 glued and screwed together using
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