Today’s episode features English researcher and curler Jotham Sugden. We talk about his mission with his website www.leancurling.com centring around curling research.
We answer a couple questions such as:
Some other great episodes to check out:
- How can an athlete and a coach determine what information is good?
- How to combine experience and research with the human athlete in front you?
- What matters more, experience, education or research?
- Evidence Based Practice -Standards:
- Using to best possible research evidence
- Utilizing curling experience and expertise
- Taking individual preferences into account
- Contact form on website: leancurling@gmail.com
- IG: leancurling
- TPI for golf
- Meta-analysis on curling research by Emily Zacharias
- Joe’s challenge: 90 sec max sweeping test → looking for a drop off in power. Measure sweeping frequency and power (with smart broom or force plate -more validated).
- Power = Force (vertical) x Velocity.
- From video measure distance of brush stroke, and # of strokes to calculate velocity
- Contact Joe for assistance/share results
- Reminder: no 2 smart brooms are the same (can be helpful as a tool for individual session adjustments)
Below is a photo of Joe’s dryland sweeping device using a wood insert on an old broom, and 2 ball bearings. The purpose being it accentuates the push stroke and encourages a fast and strong recovery stroke
Some other great episodes to check out:
- Episode 48: Sassy hips and energy leaks
- Episode 65: 5 reasons you aren’t a better brusher
- Episode 55: Should I ‘toe out’ while curling?
