Asham Curling
is a Canadian company specializing in the sport of curling. Again and again she sets herself new goals in order to constantly improve her own curling products and thus continue to perfect the game.
The fate of the company is managed by Arnold Asham together with his daughter Amana. Arnold Asham is a legend in Canadian curling, for him curling is a true passion that has taken him to many countries around the world. He himself has already played with and against the best players ever.
Arnold Asham is the founder of the World Curling Players Association and a co-founder of the World Curling Tour. He is also the founder of the Asham Stompers and the Stomper Festival.
When Arnold talks about curling, nobody can resist his passion. For decades he helped shape and co-invent curling, as he told us in an interview.
Just with the details of how he came up with the idea of the Rotator Slider Disks and what that means for the success of the game, he could easily have an exciting evening event.
1978: The Red Brick Slider
The year 1978 was the first step for the world-famous Asham Curling Company. In this year Arnold Asham designed the Red Brick Slider and started applying sliders to the soles of curling shoes. After the first success he turned his own basement into a production facility and in the year 1980 he took the next step and opened his own company: Asham. Only two years later he sold 15.000 shoes yearly.
... and today?
Now many years after the foundation of Asham the company is one of the biggest producers of curling equipment. Asham always has the curler in mind and so they are working hard to promote the curling game and the players all over the world.
Asham produces nearly every curling equipment like shoes, gloves, bags and curling brooms.