Curling

Curling Troy Dawson

You see, not a lot of people know the sport curling. This is your lucky day because I am going to tell you all you need to know about curling. Curling is a very interesting sport. Curling has been around for more than 500 years. The earliest written record of curling is about groups of people who slid stones on frozen ponds and lochs. If you’re interested in playing this sport you need a few pieces of equipment before you can go out on the ice. They wear special shoes so they grip the ice and don’t slip they also use a broom to sweep the ice so it can get closer to the inner circle. Enough about the equipment lets take it to the ice and learn the basic rules. The first basic rule is that there is a 42 pound stone that the teammates have to push. The people that sweep with a brush call it a broom. The purpose is to clean the ice so the stone goes faster or slower depending on the play being made. The point of the game is you have to try to get the stone closest to the smallest inner circle of the ice board. Your goal is to try to get the stone as close to the tee as possible. In case you don’t know what the tee is; it is the smallest circle in the ring. There are 2 teams with 4 players; 1 player pushes the stone, while 2 players sweep the ice. The 4th player decides if it needs to go more or less and the switch. They all take turns getting the stone to the tee. Of the 2 teams, the stone that is closest to the tee wins the game. There are two lights on the stone; one is green and one is red. If you have a green light on the stone it means you released it well and if it’s red the release could have been better. The final score depends which stone got closest to the tee out of 16 stones have been delivered. Incase you didn’t know the length of the rink it is 42.07 m long and 4.28 m wide with a target. For indoor tournaments the artificially created ice has its surface sprinkled with winter droplets, which freeze into tiny bumps on the surface. This is called pebbled ice. This surface helps the stone grip, and leads to more consistent curling. Know you know all about curling know it’s your choice are you up for the challenge? .