From her Year in Review for the Lisa Weagle Curling Academy Youth Program:
One of the most impactful parts of this year’s program was using technology to give the athletes an edge. The SmartBroom 3 was a total game-changer. It gave real-time feedback on sweeping effectiveness so the athletes could see exactly where they were improving and where they needed to adjust. Seeing those "aha!" moments when the technique changes clicked for them was such a highlight for me.
The world's smartest curling broom is now recognized by World Curling as an approved sweeping device for competitive play.
To use your SmartBroom as a certified sweeping device, all you need is our new competition-approved fabric sleeve (available now), which features the World Curling product code. Swap the sleeve, and you’re good-to-sweep.
The generosity of three lifetime members of the St. Albert Curling Club will assist the next generations of the roaring game.
Ray Rouault, Neil McKay and Don Johnston donated three SmartBrooms to the St. Albert Junior Elite Development (STAJED) program to assist with the curlers' sweeping techniques.
Unsure if you should really hurry hard?
As he watched a curling team he was coaching on the ice in 2012, Will Hamilton of Waterloo, Ont., said it was difficult for him to evaluate his players.
KITCHENER, Ontario — Andrew Flemming and Geoff Fowler tinkered for months in their spare time. They used soldering irons. They printed three-dimensional models in their basements. They brainstormed over beers in this small city about 60 miles west of Toronto, where they kept their project quiet.
“We did a fair bit of work in bars,” Flemming said.
Flemming and Fowler, both 29, along with their friend and business partner, Will Hamilton, 37, were pouring their creative energies into a high-tech training device the likes of which the sporting world had never seen.
They were building a better broom.
On March 27-30, 26 coaches from Ontario, Northern Ontario, B.C., Quebec and Alberta gathered at the Glendale Golf and Country Club in Hamilton, Ont., for the Canadian Curling Association’s first Competition Development Curling Workshop.