If you're not familiar with curling, here's a brief description. The game is played in teams of four. Each member is outfitted with a broom and a slippery Teflon oversole. The Teflon helps you slide on the ice when delivering the stone and the broom is used for stability during delivery and for sweeping. Each player takes turns pushing, or delivering, two 42 lb. stones down a 138 ft. sheet of ice, to a 12-ft. bullseye-like target at the other end. Two players use their brooms to sweep the ice in front of the moving rock as it slides, affecting its deceleration and path of motion. Depending on the strategy, the stones can be placed in almost any location inside the house (the target), or in front of the house (to guard the stones inside). Stones may also be delivered with enough force to knock your opponents' stones out of play, in what is known as a takeout. The ultimate goal is to have more stones closer to the middle of the house, or button, than the other team at the end of an end (like an inning in baseball). The team with the most points at the conclusion wins the game. A curling sheet is depicted in the diagram below.



The Curling School
http://www.curlingschool.com/

Curling.ca 'Learn to Curl'
http://www.curling.ca/learn_to_curl/

Curling Rules
http://www.curling.ca/learn_to_curl/about_curling/rules.asp







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