C E L E B R A T I N G C U R L I N G I N N O R T H E R N O N T A R I O NOVEMBER 2018 ISSUE HAVE YOUR SAY: DYNASTY TO REBRAND PROVINCIAL UNIFORMS TEAM JACOBS WINS TOUR CHALLENGE IN THUNDER BAY @CURLNOCA ON THE WEB @ CURLNOCA.CA INSIDE THIS ISSUE may find yourself seeking out specialists in other fields. A PAGE 2 RONNEBECK: sports mental preparation WHAT IS YOUR ROLE AS A expert will help your team with COACH? the game that goes on between their ears – how to deal with PAGE 4 NORTHERN distractions, emotional control, PERFORMANCE CURLING thought control and how to get CENTRE into the ideal performance state. A physiologist or PAGE 5 DOUBLES personal trainer will help get CURLING & CANADA the team into top physical WINTER GAMES PRE- condition in the off-ice season TRIALS RONNEBECK: and then help maintain that conditioning throughout the PAGE 5 BUSINESS OF What Is Your Role season to help prevent injuries CURLING SYMPOSIUMS As A Coach? and physical fatigue. PAGE 6 CHEER FOR Hat #3 – Technical Expert: You What were your expectations of TRAVELERS TEAMS NOV. need to have the knowledge to your role when you first started enable athletes to throw the 19-24 working with a team? Now that rock and brush their you’ve been coaching for a PAGE 7 BIN: EXCELLENT teammates rocks to successful while are you laughing at your ICE CONDITIONS A GROUP outcomes. Are they sliding on old self? Was your main goal EFFORT line and if not – what do you do to help your team win games about it? You have to know the and competitions? Easy – PAGE 8 BONSPIEL ideal release and rotation. teach them to call the correct LISTINGS Your expertise in brushing may shot, throw and brush and voila be constantly growing in light – winning. Let’s take at look at PAGE 9 HAVE YOUR SAY: of recent developments with the reality… and the number of PROVINCIAL UNIFORMS new brush fabrics and hats a coach can wear. UNDER CONSTRUCTION technology. Hat #1 – Leader: Perhaps PAGE 10 POSTER | FEAR Hat #4 – Strategy and Tactics you’ve been asked by a team to THE MOOSE CLOTHING Guru: Your team whether they work with them. Maybe you are starting out or have been start the team by selecting PAGE 11 HIT DRAW TAP & playing for a number of years players for specific positions. BUSINESS OF CURLING will constantly need your Once the team is organized, SYMPOSIUM INFORMATION advice and discussion on this you may help identify goals, topic. Curling is always plan the season based on the PAGE 12 ATIKOKAN compared to chess as teams goals and then design and PROGRESS | THE FINE ART move their rocks around on the conduct practices and team OF MAKING ICE FOR sheet looking for the advantage meetings. It could be that CURLING in order to score the most when you decided to start points. Unlike chess, though coaching, this is what you PAGE 13 our sport requires the athlete envisioned yourself doing. But STRENGHTHENING YOUR to put a slippery sole on one then… VOLUNTEER OPERATION shoe and then balance on it while sliding down the ice PAGE 14 COMPETITIONS Hat#2 – Facilitator: Depending on the level of skill and holding on to almost 20 kgs. of INFORMATION experience of your team, it granite, releasing it before the hog line with just the right PAGE 16 BRAZEAU | might be hard for you to be the amount of weight and rotation JACOBS WINS THUNDER Big Cheese – the person on the to put the rock exactly where BAY TOUR CHALLENGE team who knows it all. As the team evolves and the the skip wants it. No just performance capacity picking up the chess piece and increases, they may need the placing it in our sport. Oh and input from other experts. You then there are brushers who → are required to judge the someone who may be with you The World Curling Federation weight to assist the thrower in in the good times but will has a Code of Ethics to help placing the rock where the skip abandon you when you get guide our actions and wants it, sweeping it at exactly arrested! interactions: the right time with the right angle and the correct brusher Hat #8 – Referee: This is the A coach mentors, facilitates, and next to the rock. All this also hardest hat to wear at times sets a positive example by: requires the skip to try and but may also make or break a • Acting in the athletes’ have her/his team make better team. A curling team is made total best interests; rock placements than the up of 4 INDIVIDUALS plus the • Maintaining high opposition. Whew!!!! You could coach - oh and if you’re be wearing this hat a lot. standards of personal coaching juniors – you can add conduct; their parents to the mix. Hat #5 - Life Juggler and • Acting with integrity Gymnast: No matter what skill Everyone has their own towards others; level of athlete you are working, motivation and needs and your • Accepting the letter & they have lives outside of role is to ensure that everyone spirit of curling rules; curling (unfortunately). There has what they need to perform • Preparing her/himself to are many competing priorities their best as a TEAM. If any be current & competent. – family, school, boyfriends, needs aren’t filled – can there girlfriends, and work to name be compromise? The Use the Code of Ethics as part just a few. You want to have a compromise is often the of your performance goals and plan – after all it’s better to trickiest bit. have a plan that doesn’t work as you work towards them, than no plan that doesn’t work By now, your hair is a mess your team will have the best (thanks Bill Tschirhart) – but and your arms are tired from experience possible despite the life gets in the way sometimes switching hats so often. You outcome of the game. and you learn that you have to may lose sleep. You won’t be a ------------------------------------------- be flexible. Putting too much millionaire on what teams pay emphasis on the team’s – in fact, this job may actually schedule can lead to increased Submitted by: cost you money. But watching stress and before you know it your athletes grow and become ANDREA RONNEBECK you’re bending over backwards trying to find middle ground. not just good curlers but better Education Manager – North So make sure you get lots of athletes and above all else, [email protected] incredible human beings Phone: 807-466-8351 input from the team on this one. makes it all worthwhile. Hat #6 – Accountant and Travel Consultant: Your team will have expenses mostly related to travel and competition entry fees. Fortunately, this may be one hat that you can assign to ***** HEY COACHES ***** someone else. A parent is usually happy to take this on but if not charge up your calculator and cell phone. We are looking for a minimum of three (3) more candidates to support a Competition Coach course in the Sudbury area Hat #7 – Friend and Confidante: A wise coach (Bill on the weekend of December 14th – 16th, 2018. Charlebois) once said to me he told his teams he would always be their friend but he would Remember that to coach at a provincial level competition never be their pal. There is a you must be “Competition Coach“ trained with “Make big difference – a friend will have your back, help you Ethical Decisions”. through the good times and bad, and provide firm guidance Please write [email protected] when you need it. A pal is ABOUT THE NEW NORTHERN PERFORMANCE CURLING CENTRE Coaches: Amanda Gates and Jennifer Gates NPCC’s goal is to create an environment for all ages and levels of curlers to learn, improve and have fun. Our coaches are very passionate about growing the sport of curling. Together they boast over 30 years of competitive curling and over 20 years of coaching experience. Northern Performance Curling Centre was put in place to become the first of its kind in Northern Ontario, offering services from novice curlers to elite athletes. NPCC is here to service the needs and interests of all curlers and curling clubs. Services Include • Private and Group Lessons (1 or 2 hours) • Courses, 4 - 8 weeks in length (1 or 1.5 hours) For quotes or more info you can email • Clinics, Half day or full day [email protected] • Program Development or call 705 561 7805 • Coaching Support The format is attracting \ DOUBLES CURLING younger people to the game, the people who are busy with Are you looking for something careers, young families, and new to try at your club? Doubles other activities, so the pace (or Mixed Doubles) is the hottest and length of the game is very new league in many clubs across attractive to them. At the Northern Ontario, and Canada. Atikokan Curling Club (Atikokan population 2800), a After the media exposure to Mixed doubles after the 2018 clinic was held last spring with Olympic Games, many clubs 12 people attending. The took advantage of the interest participants asked if there was and hosted Try Mixed Doubles a Doubles League so the sessions. The sessions were well Executive agreed to try it this attended and many clubs how season and 12 teams registered. Only 2 of the teams have a Doubles League. were from the regular league The game is short as only 5 curling; the rest are all new to rocks per team are played, and a curling.