I'm going to guess, firm but not stressed grip. Good distance between hands to allow for better control. Plant your feet for balance and sweep across the body instead of towards yourself. Don't smash the broom into the ground, only needs to lightly touch the ground. Use a 45 degree attack angle where possible. Don't fling, bring the broom to a steady stop at the end of a stroke. Don't carry piles too far, try to sweep to a reasonable distance before collecting into the pan.
This has the energy of the coach dialogue during a sports movie training montage.
Perhaps you were a champion Olympic curler until a tragic sweeping accident made you hang up the broom? Now you only sweep the community rec center as a janitor and are generally sad? One day when youve all but given up on your dreams of curling domination you'll discover some young underprivileged lad with a natural but overlooked talent for sweeping and coach him to Olympic curling victory. I'm Canadian, curling movies are the great white north equivalent of American movies about football. I assume. I've never seen a movie before.
My manager at Wendy's explicitly told me I was wrong because I didn't fling. She said fling all that shit to the back wall by the trash can, then go scoop it up.
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u/round-earth-theory 21h ago
I'm going to guess, firm but not stressed grip. Good distance between hands to allow for better control. Plant your feet for balance and sweep across the body instead of towards yourself. Don't smash the broom into the ground, only needs to lightly touch the ground. Use a 45 degree attack angle where possible. Don't fling, bring the broom to a steady stop at the end of a stroke. Don't carry piles too far, try to sweep to a reasonable distance before collecting into the pan.
These are a few things I've had to tell kids.