About this episode

Christina Black discusses her journey in curling and the pressures of high performance leading up to the Olympic Trials.

You can learn a lot about high performance by listening to someone who lives in the details, and Christina Black lives there. Over pints at Jungle Jim’s, we talk with the Nova Scotia skip about how an eight-year-old in Sydney goes from watching the Scotties on TV to hearing an arena roar at the Olympic Trials in Halifax, and what that kind of pressure feels like when it’s finally real. We get into the parts of curling casual fans miss: why the game is closer to chess than most sports, how a ...

People in this episode

Host: Afternoon Pint

Guest: Christina Black

Topics covered

• curling
• high performance
• sports psychology
• Olympic Trials
• Nova Scotia
• chess

Keywords

• curling
• Christina Black
• Olympic Trials
• high performance
• sports
• Nova Scotia
• Scotties

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Jungle Jim’s

Places: Nova Scotia, Sydney, Halifax

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