Episode 79: Lean Curling on evidence based practice standards & crazy sweep tests
Episode description
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 and sweep science.
We answer a couple questions such as:
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How can an athlete and a coach determine what information is good?
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How to combine experience and research with the human athlete in front you?
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What matters more, experience, education or research?
We also touch a bit on sweeping science, sweep testing and gripper vs slide sweeping
Some other great episodes to check out:
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Episode 48: Sassy hips and energy leaks
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Episode 65: 5 reasons you aren’t a better brusher
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Episode 55: Should I 'toe out' while curling?
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