Episode 79: Lean Curling on evidence based practice standards & crazy sweep tests

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:

• 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?

We also touch a bit on sweeping science, sweep testing and gripper vs slide sweeping

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?

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