Curling development facility launches in Winnipeg [Video]

A new facility to help develop the future of curling in Manitoba has officially taken the ice.

CurlManitoba and Curling Canada have partnered to create a Regional Performance Hub and Development Centre at the Heather Curling Club in Winnipeg.

Jill Officer, high performance director with CurlManitoba, said members of the national team and next generation athletes are using the hub to help train.

“This ice and the rocks that are on these sheets are championship condition,” she said. “So it allows the athletes to come and play on ice that they’re more familiar with when they go off to competitions.”

The new hub has several features to help professional curlers or those transitioning from the club to the professional circuit, including video analysis, SmartBroom analysis and weight control equipment, to help fine-tune their game.

“It’s not new for them to work with video analysis systems and some of the other …