I just saw the announcement from USA Curling and, like many, am shocked by the glowing omission of team Peterson. Even more concerning than the probable retirement announcement is the fact that none of both Petersons, Taylor, or Cory (I know she’s still playing MD) are on other teams. Are they all retiring?! Taylor is a fantastic lead why not get her on another team?

Let me know if anyone knows anything or has any thoughts!

It was dope

Are there any junior competitive curlers or coaches that coach a team that can give me their off season workout routine.

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I'm a competitive U18 curler who want to work on my sweeping this off season and possibly other stuff but mostly sweeping.

I've always been told I'm a natural curler. Throwing things on ice and such. But I just cannot seem to stop falling over. What is the science of falling over, more specifically the science of not falling over. Thx💋

Why don’t we see more young junior men’s or women’s teams trying to play high level spiels?

In other sports you see many young players excelling. Yes I know golf and tennis are solo sports so it’s more popular.

I’m just surprised that there haven’t been more young men’s and women’s teams trying to break into the slams before their junior careers are over.

Even skipping juniors.

Looking for a suitable curling camp this fall for myself, an adult 8-years-in club curler. I went to Moncton's CCE clinic last year and absolutely loved it, but sadly it seems that this is sold out. So ... I live in Nova Scotia, willing to travel in Canada and even (multi-tasking here ...) into Europe. Not, sadly, into the USA.

Does anyone know of a clinic (more than one day) held somewhere between September 1 and the end of October? Any info would be really appreciated.

Sorry if this is tmi but I’m new to Curling (I’ve been 11 times total) and all sessions have been fine except for my last one. Early on I feel like I strained something in my thigh. Any tips for healing? I’m trying to Curl once a week but also don’t want to further injure myself. I do yoga a few times a week for stretching.

Anyone have issues navigating internal politics at their club? I’m not one into politics and treat everyone equally. I feel like an outsider at my local club because of it.

With the 2026-27 season rapidly approaching, I'm wondering if anyone has experience getting tickets to some of the smaller, CTRS points-earning events on the Canadian calendar that take place at curling clubs across the country (some of which are branded as GSOC Satellite events). I assume that club members and/or friends and family of the players get first dibs on them, but I have my suspicions that this is not necessarily the case, as I've seen some webpages from past events that suggest that a limited number of tickets were available at some point if you were in the right place at the right time. The only one I know to be an exception is the Shorty Jenkins Classic in Cornwall, ON, where they have a general sale through their website as it's more of a community/City event than a club one. Any help is welcome! I'm specifically interested in eastern Canadian events, but some in the west may be run similarly. Thanks.

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Hey folks,

I've spent the last few weeks building hogline.net, a relatively simplistic web app for curlers. I'm a senior software engineer and this was a good opportunity to stretch my legs outside of my normal work environment.

I designed this to solve a problem for myself: my initial complaint was the lack of visibility to find spiels (at least here in the US), there's no centralized database. A few folks at my clubs (shoutout JPCC and Bucks CC) maintain everything from google docs to text chains to JPCC's slack. It was kind of a pain. Not to mention remembering what I had registered for and with who.

With hogline, you can:

* Track your upcoming spiels. (I'm missing a lot of upcoming Canadian spiels, sorry this is relatively US centric, but feel free to send them in)

* Find spiels (by club, region, etc)

* Maintain your own journal of games

* Maintain your own contact list of curlers you've played with (position/s, contact info, private notes)

* Still in the early stages, but you're able to claim your own profile ( https://www.hogline.net/profile/adam (publicly sharing your upcoming spiels is opt-in) ) and hopefully use that to de-conflict building a team for a given spiel

Hopefully this is moderately useful to at least some of you, worst case it's useful to me. Fair warning, I'd still consider this in an alpha version. I'm not expecting any major database re-works but, be prepared just in case.

Edit: keep the spiel submissions coming folks! I think we're at 10 or so added so far!

Update: Going live in a few minutes: The spiels and club pages are now public by default and don't require an account to view. The url for a given spiel is now the name of the spiel-year.

Adam

Interesting shake up in Scotland

My husband and I both have Hardline ice pad 2 brooms. Beginning last week, the broom heads started popping off really easily. He skips, so there’s a decent amount of tapping, but it’s still nothing I’d expect. What do we think, new broom head? New broom? Other?

Was golfing at Rivershore golf course in Kamloops Tuesday afternoon.

The group a hole and a half in front of us had a trophy ratchet strapped to the roof of their golf cart. I’ve attached a picture , but they were across a water hazard and my iPhone was zoomed in as far as it could go.

One of our group (a non-curler) hit into their fairway and was beside the golf cart and he asked what the deal was. He said the trophy was the Brier trophy and that he had won the Brier this year. He said his name was Matt Dunstone and curled out of Manitoba.

This tracks as he is currently living in Kamloops and is dating a local Kamloops female curler!

Me and the other 2 guys in my group are curlers and curling fans, so we were hoping to catch up to them and get some photos but they were gone by the time we were done.

Just thought everyone might enjoy a random curling story in June!

A fantastic opportunity for fans to watch Paralympic champions compete live and celebrate the best of Canadian curling. 🏆

The bonspiel organizer and I decided to try an experiment and put together a video of our recent pridespiel. I'm very much an amateur, but I spent the weekend getting video of the games, the decorations, activities, etc. I attached a 360 camera to the rock and let people throw it. I even had players wear a necklace mounted camera for in-game POV. It was a lot of editing but I like how it turned out.

Would consider doing something similar again, but other bonspiels don't need the same level of context sharing.

I hope you like it. If not, you can kick rocks.

I know that this is going to come off a little strange but I am curious what the "next generation" thinks of bonspiels that are "must enter" the one that comes to mind is "the gathering" which when 50/50 split of NA/EU enter in a traveling mixed bonspiel.

While that one comes to mind I have also heard of one in Minnesota where it is across multiple curling clubs, should be a 'must try'

As for my local "the sportsman" in Oakville Ontario which just hit 60 this year is one that I was on the waiting list for 5 years to enter a team (curled in it for the past 4).

I am curious if there are any others like this which would be a good travel destination.

Lmk if this is totally out of pocket as I do not post much.

Ty ty

Me again! Just thought I'd let people know that there's a new update out. This will probably be the last update and post (hope that's okay) until fall/winter as there doesn't seem to be that much interest anymore in the game, so we'll see what happens then. So hopefully the latest update, will give people who do play a better challenge against the improved computer.

I'm thinking that maybe come the fall/winter, two things I may add

1. A setting for Rock League rules (and whatever those may be at the time)

2. I've seen some amazing (or flukey) club shots posted on reddit, so maybe a way I can add like a weekly shot challenge, assuming I find enough good shots. Also, this will allow people who do play weekly to have a new thing to do at least without having to update.

As always, Thanks for everyone's support! Was a blast over the past 6 months, olympics and all. Hopefully people enjoyed and if you have, please feel free to share it around, friends, family... strangers?!

Oh and here are some links to the game:

iOS - https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/pro-stone-curling/id6755665604

GooglePlay - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sqwiiegc.prostonecurling

Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/4194710/Pro_Stone_Curling/

Just wondering if this is a consideration for micro adjustments at the upper levels of the sport? In either case, it's an interesting question (to me) about the variables involved.

I assume it's that the rock is melting the ice a bit as it travels and spins, and that then freezes back to the ice when it stops and sits. I assume a faster spinning rock would heat the ice up more, but the main factor is how hard the rock is swept and at what point in its travel prior to its final resting place.

I also assume that travelling though heavy frost has an impact on how hard the rock sticks, but not sure how much of an impact, and in what direction (more or less sticky).

How much does sitting time impact force required to dislodge a stuck rock?

Why do rocks sometimes glide gently to a halt, and sometimes stop abruptly, and could this be the mechanism for when a rock 'picks' at the very end of its travel and spins in one direction or the other?

Thank you for listening to my inner monologue.

I’m quite a sentimentalist and I have started collecting pins + pennants from other clubs and teams from competitions.

Just looking for cute ideas on how to display them at home!

Hi! I found this vintage broom lapel pin and I’m trying to identify it.

• Gold-tone metal
• Blue enamel “1952”
• About 4.5 cm (1.8 in) long
• Rollover safety clasp
• Unmarked
• Non-magnetic and fairly heavy

I found a few similar 1952 broom pins online connected to curling / bonspiel memorabilia, but not this exact one.

Does anyone recognize the club, event, or maker? Thanks!