Got a rookie teammate? This is for you
Empowered Performance • Apr 11 2024
The Empowered Performance for Curlers podcast and Coach Steph present: Five tips to help your team get the most out of the new curler in the squad.
Give them tips as a skip or a sweeper while avoiding any tendency to overwhelm, and help them find a win after every shot they throw. This is a follow up to the previous episode, First-Year Curling Considerations, which focused specifically on tips for new curlers themselves.
- Keep shot choices simple and consistent, focusing on repetition
- Skips give sweepers feedback to relay to player
- Sweepers keep feedback simple and support player goals
- Answer questions with patience
- Keep strategy simple and focused on the end goal.
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