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CURLING TIPS to ELEVATE YOUR GAME! Have a tip to share? Q to ask? Tag @CurlingTips or ✉ [email protected]. Good curling! #ACurlingTip #CurlTip

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Mindset Reset: You'll make more shots and help your teammates make more shots if can separate sporting intensity from base-level stress.

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On Sweeping: (part 5) Deft listening saves energy and stacks points for your team. It'll save your team from digging holes you'll have to get out of. 💯

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On Sweeping: (part 1) Teams must have the conversation on who the sweepers defer to when the person calling line & the shooter are calling two different things.

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On Sweeping: (part 4) The best of the best can bring power *and* communication to their roles, and will quickly shift from power sweeping to reinforcing the current call for their teammate.

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On Sweeping: The best sweepers are not only powerful; they're effective communicators and especially keen listeners with a quick reaction time.

A shot can change in a moment, and the best are ready to make multiple adjustments on each and every shot.

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Mindset Reset: The less you burden your mind with outcomes, the better you’ll be able to play.

Free up the space to make shots and be creative on the ice.

After all, the worst that can happen is you finish second.

[suss-- 🥌 @suss2hyphens]

@MattJamilton our club has a saying, the worst that happens is you finish second

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“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” ~ Og Mandino

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Mindset Reset: The small stuff is the big stuff.

[David Sciacero @DavidSciacero]

@tjcurler I wonder what you are talking about?

[John Cullen @cullenoncurling]

One thing I love about watching Bottcher is the communication. So even-keel, clear who the leader is but everyone gets a say, and everyone is always very honest with each other. One of the hardest things to do but makes the best teams and I love their style in particular

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Mindset Reset: Persistence should not be underestimated.

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On Winning 🥇🏆: Sport is meant to be fun, to uplift, to positively challenge, to inspire. It’s important, yet not truly essential.

Therefore, whatever level you play or compete at should be prepared for diligently, yet when performance time comes, remember to keep it light.

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On Winning 🥇🏆: Winning does not specifically come from a desire to win, or else everyone would win.

Winning comes from a focus on, and a commitment to, excellence.

You do not run up to a finish line, you run though it. The same is true in earning a championship win.

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On Winning 🥇🏆: There are many ways to win, however teams that are truly in their element have learned to, & remember to, enjoy the process. In essence, they are having fun.

The wins come easy when you get into the flow and learn to step up & enjoy the challenges as they come.

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Release Is Paramount: A good release doesn’t mean a strong release, or a straight release, but an informed release.

Great curlers know how to be consistent, and the top of the top tier have an understanding of nuance.

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Release Is Paramount: It’s the last directly physical influence a thrower places on their stone before point of impact or complete deceleration. Because of this, the delivery is simply a lead up to a refined release, and proper mental preparation should take this into account.

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Release Is Paramount: A poor delivery can be adjusted with an informed release.

However, it is difficult- if not impossible- to adjust a poor release when using regulated broom heads.

Therefore, understand & visualize the shot’s tolerance before starting your delivery.

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Prevention Is Key 🔑

You don’t need to be perfect, but you need to throw, sweep, and call line with an informed view.

This means understanding how you can miss, how to create something useful out of every shot, & the interaction of the ice conditions/path w/each specific shot.

[Richmond Hill Jr Curling 🥌🇨🇦 @rhcurlingjr]

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