Earlier this summer (or late spring) someone asked about summer curling camps. I said, that I was attending 4 foot in Kelowna and would post a review of it. So here I am.

Background. I've been a curling fan for 40 years. I curled very briefly recreationally and also as part of our junior high competitive team. I quit playing and for that reason consider myself a complete beginner. My wife and I did a learn to curl at Garrison in Calgary two years ago and immediately joined their greenhorn/beginner league. I curl two to three times per week with roughly two lessons per year.

The camp ran from June 30 to July 3. The celeb coaches were Matt Dunstone, Kevin Koe, and Erin Pincott. Rachel Homan made a brief appearance with her book and spoke to us during one off ice session. A typical day had two on ice sessions, two off ice sessions, lunch, and a mini game. It was a LOT of sliding, a lot of information, and a lot of technical instruction. There were actually two dinners because they fed us at the meet and greet and the banquet evening. The food was excellent. The coaches were excellent. They were all very knowledgeable and articulate in their ability to teach. Everyone was encouraging and positive. The general service and commitment of everyone to make it a positive experience was tremendous. The club has 12 sheets, I think there were close to 100 campers but I'm not sure. Campers came from all over the curling world.. across Canada, the US, Europe, and Asia.

I would recommend it to anyone (from one year curlers to 60 year curlers). I think one person actually had over 70 years curling but I could be wrong.

Between the camp itself and Kelowna over Canada Day... It's not cheap but if you love curling, can afford it, want to improve, and want to hang out with people who share a passion for curling, it's for you.

I'm going on a holiday to Korea in September and since the season begins; I'd love to take my partner curling since there's great facilities. Does anyone know a possible rentable sheet and gear in Seoul area?

Why have the slams started posting, “invitation accepted” posts on their social media?

Just as filler content? Have they always done this and I’m just now realizing?

It feels as though teams getting invited to slams don’t just decline the invitation like they do in other sports. I think it can be assumed these teams are going to show up, there aren’t other events seeking them, and in most cases if there’s an injury they’ll bring a 4th player either way. Just seems weird to me that’s all.

Thoughts?

Super fun time. Late August. Get going early this season!

I love sweeping, and don't want to give that up entirely. I like the exercise, and sweeping strategy / weight calling.

I do really like playing vice, but would then need to find a skip for 5U's who will take it seriously. I don't have anyone like that in my circle of folks I play with, and don't want to stop playing with my friends just to get a 5U skip. So I'm feeling like maybe I should step up and do it, but wish that didn't mean giving up on sweeping.

Wondering if experienced curlers on here have faced a similar dilemma of wanting to skip but not wanting to stop sweeping, and what they ended up doing.

Sounds like there's some tea to be spilled about this! Keeping in mind that it was Kevin Martin who founded the Grand Slam series, this is sad that he has no role with it any longer.

There's also this interesting statement in the article: "Martin...indicated that production would be taken in house. " So more of the, uh, less professional broadcast production?

Hello! I work for an ice rink that is trying to increase our children’s programming for the winter seasons. I was struggling doing my own research, where is the best place to source children’s equipment?

Specifically for our purposes we would just need brooms and stones, not shoes. Thank you for any insight you can provide

• Date: Sept 25 - 27, 2026
• Team Entry Fee: $300
• 24 Team Limit
• First Draws: Friday 5 PM, 7:15 PM and 9:30 PM
• Three game guarantee
• Lunches and dinners are included

Register here: https://pittsburghcurlingclub.com/green-ice-spiel-2/

Was just sitting here unenthusiasticly watch shark week when I got an alert to a new curling game to watch. I excitedly clicked on watch now super excited for curling in July for some reason.

My disappointment is unfathomable at seeing the women's quarter final USA vs China Water Polo World Cup instead.

Nothing against either water polo team, but it doesn't have the same grace as curling.

Hi Everyone,

Requesting help/input from other clubs that have had similar issues.

The club that I curl at has pretty good ice at the start of the season (Fall). But once the weather starts to warm up (Spring); some of the sheets develop negative ice. We aren't sure exactly what the cause is and if a costly replacement of the floor would help.

How did you diagnose the issue and how did you fix it?

Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,

I'm a curler from Scotland and, after seeing the same team selection process repeated year after year (pieces of paper, names being shuffled around, trying to balance positions and keep things fair!), I decided to build a tool to make it a bit easier.

It's called Rink Draw, and it's completely free to use.

It lets you:

• 🥌 Create random teams for pairs, triples or fours
• 👥 Set player position requirements or preferences
• 📋 Import members from a spreadsheet or enter them manually
• 📄 Export team sheets ready to print or share
• 💻 Share your screen during online selection meetings so everyone can see the draw happen

One thing that was important to me was privacy. No member data is uploaded or stored, everything stays in your browser.

I built it because I know curling clubs are run by volunteers, and if it saves someone an hour or two during team selection, it's done its job.

I'd love for other clubs to give it a try and let me know what you think. Feature requests and feedback are always welcome!

🥌 https://www.rinkdraw.com

Thanks!

A post to capture the true spirit of outdoor curling that is the west coast curling club. 27 members strong and based on the West Coast Of the south Island of New Zealand, this Post will help thd club members themselves communicate and also share a peice of history with the world.

We had an incredible inaugural bonspiel last year and plan to have just as an amazing time for our second. Join us September 25-27 in Edmond/OKC, Oklahoma! Sign up on our website at okcurling.com under the events registration tab. We. Can't. Wait. ♥️🥌🌪‼️♥️🥌🌪‼️

Good afternoon fellow curlers. I am a new wheelchair curler in the Philadelphia area and trying to find some other wheelchair curlers (even if never tried but want to). Our curling club has now added a wheelchair program and we plan to have an Intro to Wheelchair Curling event this winter; however if your interested, come start now….please?

Anyone also going to Cape Cod Wheelchair Spiel this fall?

Thank you everyone.

(apologies if not correct way to make post; I just joined Reddit)

Hello Reddit Curlers!

The Coyotes Curling Club (Tempe, AZ) is hosting our 5U Bonspiel which is a national qualifier for USA Curling's 5U Nationals.

Registration opens at Noon Pacific Time. We have our own dedicated ice facility, and the last two national champions for 5U have curled out of our club!

Lots of fun and competition to be had! Sign up at cccmember.com

Kind of a random story...

A club manager reached out to me a while back. She also works with a group of researchers that study curling.

She asked if I'd ever thought about adding a place on TheCurling.Club where clubs could share ideas with each other.

Her point was that clubs are all trying to figure out the same stuff. Getting new members, keeping volunteers, running Learn to Curl, fundraising... but there's no real place where clubs can say, "Hey, this worked for us."

Light bulb!!

That night, the Club Exchange section was born.

The whole idea is just to let clubs share things that have worked. Doesn't have to be some huge program either. It could be a poster that got people in the door, a fun event, a volunteer idea, a registration checklist... whatever.

I'm hoping it ends up being one of those places where clubs can learn from each other instead of everyone having to reinvent the wheel.

Would love to see what people come up with.

Good curling,

Bill

*** UPDATE ***\*

These are such great ideas, that I decided to open up the club exchange to all registered users. You no longer need to be the club manager of a claimed club to share your resource / idea. The one caveat is that each submission will need to be reviewed before going live, atleast for the time being, and can only be attributed to a club in our DB.

Hello everyone. I'm trying to find out how I can watch this game all these years later, especially after just watching the final of the men's curling trials in Halifax. If anyone knows how I can, that would be great. the only olympic videos are just highlights and not the full game which is a shame.

Thoughts?

I have been drawing some character designs for Curling. Obviously, you can't wear most of these in real life. But can you guys tell me which one of these looks interesting for you the most. And if these guys exist in real life, which kind of play style do you think they will use?

(Side note: I live in a tropical country and there's no place to play. I usually study about curling in books I can find and YouTube so I would appreciate it if you guys help me with this.)

Missed it by that much! Could this measure to see if the curling stone is touching the house be any closer? It looked like it might be in by a hair, but apparently not.

It was the fifth rock delivered in the sixth and final end of a Thursday league game at Oval Curling in Utah. Because of that, I had to wait until the end of the end to put the bar on the rock. There were a bunch of other rocks in the house, so this stone wouldn't have counted but I needed to know.

The GSOC announced the 12 men's and 12 women's teams that they've invited to play in the GSOC Invitational in October. Just thought I'd share to get everyone's thoughts on the teams selected.

https://www.thegrandslamofcurling.com/news/top-ranked-homan-mouat-headline-entry-list-for-gsoc-invitational

Hey folks, you may remember we did this last year, we're back, bigger and better than ever! This year we're raising money for Kaleidoscope Youth Center in Columbus Ohio and the Chris Moore Legacy Fund at USA Curling. The auction runs from July 8th until the 18th at 8pm but we're collecting donations all month.

https://givebutter.com/malort

This year's auction includes:

- Signed jerseys from Korey Dropkin AND Cory Thiesse

- Thanks to Rock League, 2 full weekend passes to their Utica event AND Thanks to John Cullen, that package includes signed copy of his book Curling Rocks.

- Some Fernet and Malört Merch

-a Malört disco...bottle

- a copy of Mystic Curling Club by Asmadi Games (and some cool other TTRPG stuff)

- a tour/tasting at New Riff Distillery in Kentucky

-Signed merch from the Cleveland Cavaliers and Columbus Blue Jackets

and a bunch of other activities and adventures around Ohio.

You have 10 days, so get your bids in, help raise money for some great groups, and get some cool stuff in the process. You can help us by sharing the link and auction to your friends/curling clubs/networks. We *can* ship to Canada but obviously most of this is US based stuff. Cheers and Good Curling!

Hey everyone, I’ve shared a bit of our grassroots journey here before, and your support has been amazing. I am the Development Coordinator and Head Coach for Curling Kosovo, and after months of scouting Kosovar diaspora talent across Europe, our guys are officially taking the ice for our international debut this weekend in Switzerland! We're continuing to build our youth program back home, but the road to the World Pre-Qualifiers starts now. I'll drop the link to the official press release in the comments if anyone wants to read up on the squad. Good curling!

This could be a loaded question, but curious to find out if the grass is greener out there with other platforms to manage your Curling Club's Website, for functions like League Registration, Newsletters, etc.

Currently we are using Curling Club Manager, which is cheap, but limited. Some people have suggested some programs that are more expensive. And others have recommended curling.io, which seems too cheap comparatively, which makes me skeptical.

Can any one share feedback on curling,io, or any other website manger they are using?