Curling

Thank you for calling the Curling Hotline, connecting you to John Cullen in a moment.

Hello, Curling fans, and welcome to the first full-length episode of the Curling Hotline.

John Cullen with you.

This is, of course, the official podcast of the Curling Group and the Grand Slam of Curling, and it is presented to you by... gold line curling the choice of champions you know curling season is just around the corner or maybe if you're lucky your club already has ice and you're already starting and you probably forgot over the summer that wait a minute I did need that new pair of gloves or I do need a new broom head or Maybe you just need new shoes and a new broom and just like a new outlook on life entirely.

Well, guess what? Goldline Curling has you covered.

Head on over to goldlinecurling.com for all your curling supply needs.

And I will say, of course, we know Hardline Curling also under the Goldline Curling umbrella.

The brand new Hardline Revo 1 shoes are out now.

Contemplating is like getting it done because it's preparing the atmosphere.

Esther was sitting a week ago in a hotel following a seminar with a friend and her friend said, did you know about Curling and Esther didn't know about it.

She's been hearing about it, but she didn't know what it was But it was on the television behind her and her friend was looking at it and Esther turned around and watched these women with their ice shavers Creating a path of least resistance for that thing She said look they're creating a path of least resistance for whatever that thing is and That thing that had some momentum, they were smoothing it out, smoothing it out, smoothing it out so that that thing, whatever that thing was, could go.

And Esther said, that's what my inner being does all day, every day.

Thank you for calling the Curling Hotline, connecting you to John Cullen in a moment.

Hello, Curling fans, and welcome to a brand new season of Curling, which means a brand new podcast.

Yes, that is right.

As you have maybe seen on your podcast app or on socials or on YouTube, wherever you're consuming this, the pod has changed.

It is now called The Curling Hotline.

It is still presented by The Curling Group.

But as you may notice, I am also here alone.

And the podcast used to be called The Broom Brothers.

Paper book.

Uh, the Complete Idiot's Guide to Curling.

Mentioned this a few weeks ago, uh, one of the episodes we did, but in here, Scott, there are some tips, including the four not so easy steps to a slide delivery.

Ooh, I'd like to hear this.

category.But let's hear from some non-idiots

Some non-idiots, yeah.

So, uh, back at the Canadian Olympic Curling Trials in November, we talked to some of the players and coaches about what makes a good technical player, and some of the keys to it, and what you need to do.

So we have some clips here.

Yeah,

so you know what else is going on, Scott? Curling, apparently.

Yeah, it's already started.

It's already started.

That's right, Sean.

I have replaced most of my Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter scrolling with Substack scrolling.

And Dale's Substack, Curling by the Numbers, I came across my feed.

I had read a few of his articles before, but this one really struck me that, hey, he had released an app for curling.

So, yeah, I'm super pumped for the thing.

Like, Curling's bike and Vial's, I think they don't...

I think it's a stock motor with a bit of porting.

Really, huh? And they're playing full shot.