The book contains several helpful links out to other resources, references, etc. For ease of clicking/following, those links are collected here, with resources at the end first:

Resources

Stephanie Thompson’s Empowered Performance business offers lots of material to help improve your fitness and effectiveness as a sweeper, from personalized one-on-one sessions to webinars to free articles and her podcast series. https://empoweredperformance.ca/

Jamie Sinclair has a number of fantastic learn-to-curl videos on her YouTube channel (Curl Up With Jamie). https://www.youtube.com/@CurlUpWithJamie

Lean Curling was set up by Jotham Sugden after I had already finished the first draft of the book, but looks to be building a collection of information on sweeping science. https://www.leancurling.com/

Dr. Glenn Paulley’s site includes several articles on cutting-edge sweeping research and more. https://glennpaulley.ca/curling/blog/

Curling Canada has some information on the basics, including the rulebook. https://www.curling.ca/basics/

The Ontario Curling Council has a number of webinars each year, several of which have been archived. https://curlinginontario.ca/learn/occ-webinar-series/

Matt Bean’s Curling Class has a paywalled online course to learn to curl (which is much of what this book just covered, but sometimes it’s helpful to hear it from another voice and with videos). They also offer to do video analysis if you record yourself. The site has free resources too, including some drills and a “scenario generator” to create some scenarios to discuss strategies over. https://curlingclass.com/

The Chess on Ice YouTube channel has a number of videos on strategy basics. https://www.youtube.com/@chessonice

Doug Wilson & Mickey Pendergast run a Facebook Group called Daily Curling Puzzle that discusses various strategy scenarios and is a lot of fun. They distilled down some of the general strategic and tactical principles into a book that uses 50 of the puzzles titled What’s Your Call?  https://www.whatsyourcall.info/

Bill Tschirhart ran a blog (though it may not have been called that at the time) called A Pane in the Glass, which was then rolled up into a book that is now hard to find. Some of the articles have been archived in various places on the web, and he now has a podcast with the same name. He also has a new blog, with several articles on practice drills and coaching. http://truenorthbill.blogspot.com/

Sean Turiff has a book with a similar scope to this one called Curling: Steps to Success. It came out in 2016 so just before the directional sweeping revolution. He devotes more of his page count to practice drills which makes it a good complement to this book.

John Cullen has a limited-series podcast with CBC called Broomgate: A Curling Scandal that goes into the history of modern broom heads, the development of directional sweeping, and the solution of using an agreed-upon fabric for all brooms in major competitions. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1427-broomgate-a-curling-scandal

Practice

There are several online resources for drills, including Curling Canada https://www.curling.ca/coaching-information/curling-drills/

Matt Bean’s Curling Class YouTube channel has several drills (search for “curling drills” to find them faster, he does have them well-titled): https://www.youtube.com/@CurlingClass/

One of the resources on the Curl Coach site is a book of 40 curling drills. https://www.curlcoach.com/Curl_Coach/resources.html

Finding a Coach

Hot Shots (https://hotshotscurling.com/) runs a camp in Ontario (usually Oakville) and also at a few places around the world. It’s like an intensive learn-to-curl, where you have more time to dive into all the topics, cover more advanced material than we can get into in our learn-to-curl (like strategy, drag and gear effects, different sweeping positions, etc.), and have some top-level coaches help correct any issues you may have. There’s a similar camp out of BC (Four Foot https://www.kelownacurling.com/spiels/fourfoot/) that I’m aware of, and the US and other countries likely have their own versions of these intensive clinics.

Warm-up and Off-Ice Training

Stephanie Thompson has a great set of warm-up exercises available on her site at https://empoweredperformance.ca/free-curling-warmup-and-delivery-brushing-tips-for-all-curlers/

To watch games for fun, strategy, or help pace an off-ice sweeping practice, check out https://plus.curling.ca

Sweeping

Glenn Paulley’s data on the difference in force between the push and pull stroke: https://glennpaulley.ca/curling/2024/02/14/the-anatomy-of-a-brush-stroke/

The news story of the accident with Patrickhttps://thegrandslamofcurling.com/team-eppings-patrick-janssen-out-with-injury-after-fall-on-ice/ Janssen.

Safety

The episode where Coach Bill discusses the risk of falling backwards as a stick delivery player when coming to a sudden stop at the point of release: A Pane in the Glass: “How Much is Your Brain Worth?”
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1922969/11544006

Head protection options include:
Dynasty headbands and toques
Ice Halo
Goldline helmets and hats
BalancePlus helmet
Asham helmet
Hardline helmet
Crasche hats and headbands
Or look for a hockey, snowboarding, or skateboarding helmet at a sports store near you.

Flat Foot

The reference for extra stress on the knee is: Iona Robertson et al. (no relation), BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med. 2017; 3(1): e000221