I will be a good sport
I will respect people and property, on and off the ice
If I make a mistake, I will tell someone
No “put downs.” I will play fairly
I will accept the consequences of my behaviour
This is the "Fair Play Code of Youth Curling," written at the Vernon Curling Club in B.C. In this week's episode of Coaching Kids Curling, Coach Glenn reveals the Code's origin and talks about how he uses it to teach sportsmanship in his Little Rocks program. In this week's “Coaching Tidbit,” we share a must-read article that addresses the lack of diversity in Canadian curling.
Links to the resources mentioned in this episode:
Curling Canada “Rules of Curling for General Play 2018-2022” (includes 3 ethics statements)
https://s17962.pcdn.co/wp-content/blogs.dir/58/files/2019/02/Rule-Book-2018_General_ENG_CC_v2.pdf
"'Lots of work to do' as Curling Canada aims to eliminate dominant whiteness of sport"
CBC article by Devin Heroux (June 18/20)
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/curling/curling-canada-lacking-diversity-1.5617026
Follow our podcast on Twitter: @kidscurling
Glenn Gabriel is an NCCP-certified curling coach who lives in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. He has been the coordinator of the Little Rocks (U12) program at East York Curling Club in Toronto since 2011. If you have a question or feedback on the podcast, send us an e-mail at coachingkidscurling@gmail.com
The intro and outro music is "Golden Sunrise (Instrumental Version)"
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward/The_Wake_1790/JoshWoodward-TheWake-NoVox-10-GoldenSunrise
By Josh Woodward
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Josh_Woodward
Licensed under CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
