Curling

"Curling shoes," one with a slippery Teflon slider built into the sole and the other with just grippy rubber on the bottom, are used to allow players to slide smoothly down the ice during their delivery (sliding) of the curling rock.

"Curling brooms" or "curling brushes" are used to "sweep" the ice in front of the rock, decreasing the friction between the rock and the ice and making the rock go both farther, and curl (curve) less if so desired. Brooms are also used by most players during their delivery for balance.

Many teams will use stop watches to time a rock between certain points on the ice, to get an idea of how fast the rock is moving.

Start at the root of your hair and the base of the curling stick wrap hair around stick till you reach the end hold for a few seconds and slip the stick off I find it easier and I like the curls more when I twist the section of hair I'm doing a little before and as I curl it around the stick. If you find your hair isn't curling try using smaller sections and add some product like hair spray before curling A word for the wise be very careful when using the curling stick it's really easy to burn yourself

You score by having the closest stone to the center of the scoring area (the "house") at the end of each round ("end"). You score a point for every stone that is closer to the center than your opponent's closest. So, the maximum number of points you can score in one end is 8, if all of your rocks are inside or touching the house, and your opponent doesn't have any rocks closer than any of yours. A typical score is 1 to 3 points. 4 or more is considered a "big end."

Technically, there are no professional curlers. Curlers all have other jobs. Revenue Canada considered taxing the winnings of curlers, but soon came to the conclusion that if curlers who participated in the same bonspiels and won little or nothing were to claim lodging, meals, and associated expenses as tax deductions, that the deductions would far exceed any revenue collected from those who made significant amounts.

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Curling is a very popular sport in Canada.

It is also played in the across the USA in "Curling CLubs"

An Olympic curling game is separated into 10 rounds called "ends." An end is complete when all 16 stones (8 for each team) have come to rest. The score for that end is then taken. Whichever team is closest to the center of the house (the scoring area that looks like a target) scores. The amount of points they get is equal to the number of stones they have that are closer to the center than the opponent's closest. A couple of examples: if red has 3 stones in the house and yellow has none, then red scores 3. If red has 5 stones in the house--one of them being the closest--but yellow has a stone that is closer than 4 of the red stones, then red only scores 1.

The conventional wisdom is that the Scots developed curling, but there is a strong case for Holland as well. There are Dutch paintings of either curling or eisscheissen which predate the development of curling by the Scots.

Curling is played to some extent in at least 50 countries; there are currently 50 countries belonging to the World Curling Federation (the international governing body for curling). Besides the U.S. and Canada, most of the WCF member countries are European. A few exceptions are China, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Curling_Federation

Curling stones are made of a very specific type of granite mined from one of two quarries in the United Kingdom: Ailsa Craig, a small island off the coast of Scotland, and Trefor Quarry in Wales.

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Varies - but around 10 is a good average.

"Shot rock" is the term for the rock that is currently the closest to the center (the "pin") of the scoring area (the "house").

The captain of a curling team is known as the "skip."

All members of the curling team throw stones. Every end, they take turns throwing 2 stones each in the order of: Lead, Second, Third/Vice/Mate, Skip.

The person who is currently delivering their stone could be called the thrower.

Loose but warm clothing. Stretchy black pants with a warm but not too big sort of lose fitting sweater. If you want to look a little bit more like the pro's, a tight long sleve or t-shirt works but it's cooler.

1) Women's two bobsleigh

2) Men's curling

3) Mixed ice dancing

4) Women's ski cross

5) Men's moguls

6) Women's ice hockey

7) Men's ice hockey

8) Men's 5000 meter relay short track speed skating

9) Men's 500 meter short track speed skating

10) Men's skeleton

11) Women's boardercross

12) Men's parallel giant slalom (snowboarding)

13) Women's 1000 meter speed skating

14) Men's team pursuit speed skating

A curling rink (usually called a sheet) is about 150 feet long and about 15 feet wide. The area of ice that is "in play" is 126 feet long, while the distance from hack to hack (the hack is where you push off from) is 138 feet.

World Curling Federation rules require a weight of 38 to 44 pounds, or 17 to 20 kg.

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The friction from sweeping heats the ice slightly and reduces the friction between the rock and the ice. This does two things; it makes the rock travel farther, and it also makes the rock travel straighter. When a rock is released, depending on the type of shot being thrown, the players will judge whether sweeping will help or hurt the trajectory of the rock, and decide whether the rock should be swept or not. Usually, the sweepers will pay attention to whether the rock might need sweeping to travel farther, while the skip pays attention to whether the rock might need sweeping to travel straighter, and they communicate this with each other while the rock travels down the ice.

Although the curlers make it look effortless, the curling stones must weigh between 38 to 44 pounds.

Canada, by far. There are somewhere around 200,000 regular curlers in Canada. The U.S. is a distant second, at around 18,000 curlers, though popularity is growing rapidly in the U.S. (it's doubled in 20 years).

A curling team is properly called a "rink," although the word "team" is used more often in everyday speech. On a related note, the ice surface that curling is played on is called a "sheet," not a rink.