Curling archive entries:
- Scoring a Four-Ender With Only Three Rocks to Throw
- Drag Effect on Curling Rocks
- Winning Curling Through Psychology
- Masters of Curling Grand Slam in Saskatoon
- The Game-Saving Shot and Sportsmanship
- The Balance of Judgement
- Being Skip is Hard
- Everyone's a Winner
March 24, 2010
Scoring a Four-Ender With Only Three Rocks to Throw
I've been watching the Ford World Women's curling event for a few days now, and although it's exciting, it's also disappointingly full of mistakes. At least, though, we can take a look at one of them that is bound to become famous and try to learn from it.
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February 26, 2008
Drag Effect on Curling Rocks
I had been hearing about the "drag effect" or "drag theory" of curling rocks on television for a few years, but up until last week I had never truly seen a clear example of it. Now I have, and here's the video and an explanation of what's going on.
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January 22, 2008
Winning Curling Through Psychology
We recently won a game of curling 11 to 0. Yes, we shut out the other team completely, and we never once had hammer that game. We did not, however, curl an exceptional game. We were curling "about average". So why did we win? Did the other team just make too many mistakes? Was it that simple?
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January 19, 2008
Masters of Curling Grand Slam in Saskatoon
I volunteered at the Masters of Curling Grand Slam event that took place in Saskatoon this past weekend. It was interesting to see "behind the scenes" and experience curling from the other side of the television.
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June 23, 2006
The Game-Saving Shot and Sportsmanship
It was one of the last games of the season in our Friday night mixed curling league, and for the first seven ends it was going well.... The score was 8 to 6 for us and the seventh end had just ended by the opposition scoring one point. This meant that we only had the eighth end to play and we were up by two points coming home with the hammer. How much better could our situation have been?
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January 18, 2006
The Balance of Judgement
I like sweeping! It's a great part of the game of curling, and something that I would much rather do in a game than have to formulate the strategy like the skip does. I have two stories to tell about sweeping that, in the end, aren't completely all about sweeping as much as they are about having confidence in yourself.
Both stories involve sparing for other teams...
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December 06, 2005
Being Skip is Hard
My first season of curling was last year, and during that time I only had the opportunity to play in the skip (fourth) position once. And that game didn't *really* count as skipping, since it turned out to be less about curling and more about socializing.
This year - yes, my second season of curling - I'm skipping a team in a mixed league. The team consists of me and my wife along with another couple. I am only now finding out how much difficult it is to skip a team instead of just playing on one...
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September 22, 2005
Everyone's a Winner
February 2005 and it's nearing the end of curling season. I get a phone call just after supper, asking if I'll spare on a mixed team for a game later that night. No problem!
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