Keen Ice Fast ice. Rocks must be thrown less hard in these conditions. The opposite of heavy ice. Pebble The droplets of water applied to a sheet of ice before a game.
They freeze and reduce friction between the stone and the ice. Straight ice A condition in which the ice does not cause the stones to curl very much. Biter A stone just touching the outer edge of the house. It could potentially score a point. Burned When a rock is removed from play because of an infraction.
Guard A rock between the hog line and the house used to prevent the opposition from hitting a rock in the house. Hog A stone that fails to reach the far hog line and is removed from play. Rock Also known as a stone. The stones weigh, on average, 42 pounds Shot rock At any time during an end, the stone that is closest to the tee.
Draw A scoring shot. It is designed to stop inside or in front of the house. Freeze A form of a draw that stops in front of and next to another rock. For a right-handed player, the rock will curl from left to right. For a right-handed player, the rock will curl from right to left. Picked The slang term for a rock getting knocked off-line by a foreign object on the ice. Double takeout A takeout shot that clears two opposing stones from the house.
End Similar to an inning in baseball. The score is determined at the conclusion of each end. Extra End An additional end played to break a tie at the end of regulation. The resulting distance is measured and can be used to determine which team has the choice of delivering the first or second stone in the first end.
Port The space between two lying stones, large enough for another to pass through. Steal To score in an end when not shooting the last stone i. Skip to content. World Cup Qualifiers 1 hour ago. Brown 2 hours ago.
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Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. Log in now. Loading Comments Email Required Name Required Website. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! An average game of championship curling lasts up to three hours. Teams are given a set amount of Thinking Time depending on the discipline and number of ends being played. In traditional ten-end games, each team receives 38 minutes of thinking time.
This is reduced to 30 minutes for eight-end games. Wheelchair curling teams receive 38 minutes of thinking time for an eight-end game, while mixed doubles teams receive 22 minutes. To play curling, a set of stones are needed. They are made of a special type of granite and weigh almost 20 kilos each. Each curler has their own brush and a pair of special curling shoes with one sole that grips the ice and one slippery sole — called a Slider — to be able to slide with a stone during delivery.
A gripper is a removable rubber sole to protect the slider, keep it clean and allow the curler to be stable on the ice. There are three types of curling shots — a Guard, a Draw and a Take-out, but there are many variations of these shots. When in motion a stone will curl across the sheet of ice. When delivering a stone, players will turn the stone clockwise or counter-clockwise. By applying a rotation, and making the stone curl on the pebbled ice, players have more control over where the stone comes to rest.
The idea of sweeping is to gently warm the surface of the ice where the stone will glide across. In order to do this, you have to sweep the ice with downward force. Sweeping can extend the path of the stone. Good sweeping can allow a stone to travel two or three metres further.
Sweeping can also reduce the curl and make the trajectory of the stone straighter. Teams score extra points for each additional stone that is closer to the button than their opponents' stones. No, there are no actual hammers involved.
But to have the hammer is to have the power. That's because the team that has the hammer has the right to throw the final stone of each end. Whichever team doesn't score during an end will get the hammer in the next round. If neither team scores, the team with the hammer hangs onto it.
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