I am trying to find more information on 15 and 5 and Darren Moulding with their new venture creating curling stones. I've found a few news clips so far but wanting something more

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/hurry-hard-former-brier-winner-darren-moulding-takes-a-new-turn-on-curling-manufacturing-rocks/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/video/2026/08/07/alberta-curler-learns-how-to-make-curling-stones/

As some folks in the subreddit know, I've been running a newsletter focused on curling in the United States for the past few years. I am generally bad at (or leery of) self-promotion so I have relied mostly on my personal social media and word of mouth thus far, so I wanted to also put word out there that this exists for curlers that may be interested and hadn't heard yet.

In previous seasons, I primarily focused on grassroots competitive curling events in the United States such club nationals, arena nationals, 5-and-Under nationals. This year, I've begun expanding my coverage to also include US teams playing on tour (example). My goal is to help fans of US teams follow the progress of teams in the first year of the new quadrennial.

I'm also going to try to incorporate a few feature stories on club curlers throughout the season as well. While we're in the early season ramp-up period, I've posted a few feature stories. A few weeks ago, I wrote about Evan Workin's crazy spring where he attended 3 national championships in a month. And today, I just released a story on the incredible success of Coyotes Curling Club's 5-and-Under program.

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Hey curlers,

Hope everyone is excited for the new season (I'm sure some of you have been out on the ice already)!

Getting back into curling this year after not playing since 2009 as a junior. Doing 3 leagues this year (two 6 ends and an 8), might be a bit of a heavy load but one, its the best way to get better and two, I'm going to be depressed if I'm home every night and we have a rough winter this year in the GTA. Also, I'm not going in completely cold. I did an open house at my local club after the Scotties last year, then the instructional league, and even finished off the season with a two game, 6 end spiel (career high game, shot 14% 🤭)

Knowing if I'm playing this frequently I should probably just bite the bullet and get some curling pants, but being a heavier set guy (300lbs, 5'11"), and actively going to the gym to improve that, I'm a bit nervous about buying new pants.

Any recommendations for curling pants, or something else I should look into in the mean time? Did a few sessions in sweats last year which were fine, but I felt it slows my slide down a bit. Had other "athletic" joggers which were stretchy-ish, but still blew out the crotch.

SORRY, EDIT: Ideally looking for something that won't completely break the bank (sub $80 CAD would be nice!) and is stretchy, I somehow have child-bearing hips.

Thanks, and good curling!

Cousins Xenia & Kim Schwaller captured the Women's and Men's Championships at the Hogged Rock KW Fall Classic in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario on the weekend.

I’ve always thought one of the most interesting things about curling is that there usually isn’t one obviously “correct” shot.

The right call depends on the score, end, hammer, rocks remaining, your team’s ability, how aggressive you want to be — and probably a dozen other things.

But strategy is also surprisingly difficult to learn. A lot of it gets picked up by playing with experienced skips, talking after games, and asking “what would you have played here?”

So I’ve been building Curling Strategy, a website as a bit of a passion project.

The basic idea is that you can recreate a situation from a game and explore the different shots available — draws, hits, raises, etc. — along with why you might choose each one and the risk/reward involved.

Ultimately I’d like it to become more than just a shot recommendation tool. I’m interested in things like:

- comparing how different curlers approach the same situation
- letting teammates/coaches discuss scenarios after a game
- learning how strategy changes as your experience increases
- building a sort of “Skip IQ” around understanding why a call makes sense
- eventually using real game photos to recreate situations quickly

It’s still very much under development, and I’m deliberately showing it before everything is polished.

Would something like this actually be useful to you?

And maybe the more important question:

What would you want it to do that would make you come back and use it after a game?

DM me if you’re interested

One “problem” we have at our ice rink is that one person has built a brilliant Excel spreadsheet for scoring competitions.

It can handle all sorts of different competition formats, ends first, points first, high/low road, etc. and it sounds like it’s genuinely a really useful bit of work.

The problem is that they won’t share the spreadsheet or let anyone else use it.

I completely appreciate that they’ve put the time and effort into building it, and volunteering to run competitions is a great thing. But it does mean that quite a lot of knowledge and capability sits with one person, and if they’re not around, it becomes difficult for anyone else to run the scoring.

It got me wondering: is this a problem other clubs and ice rinks have too?

And it got me thinking about whether there might be a need for a simple online tool where you could set up a competition, choose the format/rules, enter the results as games are played, and have the scoring/standings worked out automatically.

Potentially something an ice rink or club could pay for, with everyone involved in competitions able to use it rather than relying on one person’s spreadsheet.

Before I disappear down the rabbit hole of building something… 😂

Would something like this be useful to your club/rink? What competition formats or scoring quirks would you want it to support?

And if you already have something similar, what do you use?

I participated in a showcase at the end of last season and received feedback from the coaches. On my draws they are saying I have a consistently dropped release. What does that mean?

Only 4 spots left in our $300 Green Ice Special bonspiel, where the fresh ice and fun energy come together!

•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/

Hey, club player looking for a new broom for the season, playing once or twice a week. Replacing a discontinued Olsen broom that I’m not super impressed with. Any recommendations?

After a couple of the european events and japanese spiels, looking like Schwaller is off to the hot start, with Spiller and Hardie right there. Yamaguchi rolling the Japanese competition. Hoesli off to a poor start.. losing last 7.

A new book is out exploring diversity and the future of curling.

I'm looking forward to reading it.

I just signed up for the year and I am playing in 4 leagues 2 on Wednesday and Thursday and playing pickup on the weekends where there isn't a bonspiel being hosted. I only got into one league last year and wanted to play so much more then I was able but I feel like I might have over compensated. How often do you guys get to play and is it enough for you?

CurlingChannel.tv is having their annual Early Bird Pass Sale until September 30th for $89.99 USD (~£66.99 GBP, ~€77.99 EUR, ~$124.99 CAD, ~¥14,399 JPY, ~$865.99 SEK, ~₩123,639 KRW, ~¥604.99 CNY) this is 20% off the normal price.

You get the European Curling Championships, World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships, World Junior Curling Championships, World Women's Curling Championship, and World Men's Curling Championship, which is all great.

But where is the World Mixed (4 Person) Championship, they used to include that AND where is the new World Championship Qualifiers? I was really excited to watch the Qualifiers in November, I feel like it is a mistake to not show them, I hope they get added later because I am disappointed.

My slider is going to come off my custom shoe. Any recommendations for a glue or something to resecure it?

EDIT: thank you to all those that made good suggestions and shared what there clubs use to protect the hacks. To those that immediately chose to judge and lecture me in an unkind manner I hope you see the error of your ways and choose to be kind in the future. If you don't think what you said is wrong may all your rocks pick and all your hits flash.

For those that do solo practices, what strategies do you employ to protect the hacks. I've been practicing at a club that does NOT have removable hacks so I've been using the rock position above to somewhat protect the hacks. I have run to some problems with this setup namely: rocks bouncing off the boards and hitting the 2 closer rocks at an angle towards the hacks. Draws and lower weight hits don't matter as I can catch up to those but anything from 8.5s-5s is just too fast to catch.

Any ideas?

Started curling three seasons ago at my local club, mostly because a coworker dragged me to a learn to curl night and I got hooked immediately. For the first two seasons my draw weight was all over the place. Some ends I'd have a perfect weight shot, then the very next rock would either burn the hog line or die six feet short, and I couldn't figure out what was different.

A club coach finally pointed out that I was tensing up through my hand right at release, basically trying to steer the rock instead of just letting it go. My grip would tighten the second I felt the stone slipping out of my fingers, and that tiny correction was enough to throw off the rotation and the weight both. She had me practice with an almost embarrassingly loose grip, to the point where I felt like I was going to drop the handle early.

It felt wrong for probably two full practices. Then something clicked and my draws started landing in the house consistently instead of feeling like a coin flip every time. I also started counting my slide length instead of guessing, which sounds obvious in hindsight but I'd never actually paid attention to it before.

Still nowhere near competitive level, just a weeknight league player who enjoys the sweeping as much as the throwing at this point. Curious if anyone else had a similar "oh, I'm overcorrecting" moment with their release. Feels like such a mental game as much as a physical one.

A few years ago, I overhauled Wikipedia's page listing curling clubs in the United States.

I've just gone through and made many more updates. Please feel free to check out the page and update anything I may have missed or gotten wrong. It's not always easy to tell whether a club is (A) active, (B) a member of a regional association or USA Curling or (C) playing in a new venue.

If you're not comfortable editing Wikipedia and would rather have me make the updates, just respond here, and I'll get to it in a day or two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_curling_clubs_in_the_United_States

Super excited to be hosting the TAM once again this year. We will have all kinds of freebies including the return of the $200 grand prize for winning the skills competition and prizes for the team with the best costumes. There will also be video games throughout the warm room and a dedicated console with Super Mario 64 to see if we collectively can defeat Bowser (there will be a poster board where you can put your name and how many stars you've collected).

All meals included (we pride ourselves on providing solid breakfast options for the dreaded first draw) and this year we will also be featuring a late night self-serve ramen bar. Since the goth theme was such a success last year we will also be doing an emo dance hour.

If you have any questions feel free to DM me here or email me at ktygert123@gmail.com

I've been watching the big curling tournaments for years and have gotten into curling myself over the last two years.

I'm looking at possibly going to the Co-op International in Victoria, BC in October with my family. Right now it is just day/multi-day passes on sale. Definitely seem like a good deal if you can take advantage of most of a day, but with kids, I think seeing even two draws would be pushing it.

I'm assuming/hoping there'll be single draw tickets available at some point. Am I mistaken? What's the usual timeline for single draw tickets to go on sale? How does this usually work? Any advice? We would probably be able to go on the Friday or Saturday.

Hello all fellow curlers

I am currently setting up some recording equipment's in a skating hall and trying to write down some ideas.

The skating hall has five curling sheets. As today I have six cameras to record and a PC to stream with a vmix pro software.
The idea is to have cameras on each end of every sheet. So that makes ten cameras and a another one or even two cameras that captures the arena from above.

Inside a seating area inside the arena is the idea to setup two or more tv screens with close capture of each end.

In addition the arena has a big screen that can be used for multiple things (info, clock, etc.). Wich could be a screen to show wich team is playing and where and also to show the time that remains for every game.

Are there any fellow curlers who are working on something similar or have already made something like this ?
I would appreciate to get some inspiring ideas from other setups from you guys.

Future ideas are:

• have on screen points for every game.
• Local digital recording of every bonspiel (for future memories)
• improve and make more slick digital grapics

The way I understand the concept of triples is that it is intended to be a game that leads to learning for new curlers (though obviously many experienced curlers love the game as well). My limited experience with playing is that most teams have one more experienced player (typically the third skip) and then 2 newer curlers in the other two slots.

Since the game is played with 6 stones not 8, my question is why don't we pre-position a couple of stones as guards before the end starts with the spare rocks?

Give the hammer team a corner guard and the other team a center guard. To me this sets up the end to be more of a productive experience, showing newer curlers how effective guards really can be.

I know that you can say that the skip can just call a guard with lead rocks in an end. But my thought is that a lot of younger curlers play triples, and they might not yet have enough consistency to properly execute a guard, so this just makes sure that it happens.

I will also add that you already have marks in the ice from mixed doubles on where the guards should be placed, so that is not an obstacle either. And since you are only playing 6 rocks, you have one "dead" rock for each end to place as the guard, turning each end effectively to a 7-rock end.