Shoes Maintain

Curling shoes, like brooms have come along way. We often get a laugh when hear about the impressive length of shoe ownership and then get to see old curling shoes that are barely hanging together and have no gripper to speak of. Shoes do have a life and its not 20 years or more! You can, however, extend the life of your shoes by looking after a few critical areas: Slider, Gripper, Stitching, & leather uppers. Let handle sliders first. Most sliders are made polymers (usually Teflon). By nature of the product they have a tendency to scratch and experienced curlers know from experience that a heavily scratched slider just doesn’t work that well. Typically, the greatest opportunity for this scratching to occur is off the ice as you move around … Read entire article »