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Old 03-18-2005, 07:44 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Can someone please tell me exactly what this is?

http://www.cbc.ca/MRL/clips/rm-lo/he...gshot050227.rm
Saw it posted on another board, no one there is canadian, so they don't understand it either.... Fly? Jay?
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Old 03-18-2005, 07:49 PM   #2 (permalink)
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What you're looking at, I believe, is curling. Always thought it was more interesting than the people around me, but don't actually know much about it.
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Old 03-19-2005, 02:42 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Yeah, it's curling. They play it on ice. It's been an olympic sport since 1998. You use the brooms to smooth the ice, I think. It helps control the shot. It's kinda like a cross between darts and shuffleboard.

The official olympic site on curling:
http://olympic.org/uk/sports/program...p?SportCode=CU
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Old 03-19-2005, 10:30 AM   #4 (permalink)
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That really was an awesome shot. What a great tournament that was.
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Old 03-19-2005, 10:36 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Yep curling it is, I used to hate curling until I sat down and figured out what it is they are supposed to accomplish, now I love watching curling great sport.
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Old 03-19-2005, 10:41 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Impressive shot from the lady, eh?
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Old 03-19-2005, 12:07 PM   #7 (permalink)
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So how do they score it, etc?
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Old 03-19-2005, 02:05 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I've played curling a couple of times for fun in high school, this is what I remember of the rules.

The teams consist of four people with eight rocks, every player shoots two rocks per round. The teams take turns to shoot a rock each. The goal is to get your team's rocks as close to the middle of the target as possible and remove the opponent's.
At the end of the round, the team whose rock is closest to the middle gets the points, one point for every rock in the target area closer than the closest-to-the-middle rock of the opposing team I believe.
There's a lot of tactics involved in the placing of the rocks. You can place rocks as guards in front of the target area to stop the opponent or force them to take another way. A stone that has passed the back line or stopped before the "front" line is out of play and is removed from the field.
When you shoot a rock you slide along with it for a while and relese it before a certain line. You can twist it a little to make it curl, you can push it hard or loose, the sweepers can sweep or not, all that determines how the rock will travel. Two of your teammates may sweep the ice in front of the rock while the fourth stand on the sideline and shout stuff. (The shouting is a very important part of the gameplay experience!) Behind the middle line of the target area the opposing team may also sweep before the rock in hope of it exiting the playing field. The sweepers must never ever touch the rocks. The penalty is something awful that I have forgotten about because it was so terrible.

I never got the hang of sliding with the rock without a knee to the ice. The ice on a curling rink is very grainy in order to make the rocks slide better. Sliding on grainy ice leaning on a knee makes for some god-awful bruising though.
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Old 03-19-2005, 02:32 PM   #9 (permalink)
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That was a frickin' awesome shot.

Plus she was cute
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Old 03-19-2005, 03:57 PM   #10 (permalink)
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sweet shot by the sweet lady.........not a fan of the sport but.......if i need to take a nap,it's either baseball or curling to put me down.
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Old 03-19-2005, 04:10 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Curling... not a fan but I've come to appreciate it, especially with shots like that...

I can't find it but there was a song by a band called the Dik Van Dykes called Curling... The lyrics went something like this:

My Mother does it with my Father...
Curling!

It was on an indie compilation called It Came From Canada (I believe it was on Vol. 3).

If anyone can find the lyrics please, please post them.
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Old 03-27-2006, 09:40 AM   #12 (permalink)
 
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Canandians should not be the only ones interested in curling.

Hey you from the US...look at your Olympic Curlers

Cassie and Jaime Johnson





maybe Charlatan will get another shot at the lyrics he is looking for
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Old 03-27-2006, 09:47 AM   #13 (permalink)
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For Charlatan:

(no one seems to have teh entire lyrics - but the chorus is a trip...

Quote:
My mother does it with my father, and they want me to
but I just can't be bothered

Curling

Curlers are a rowdy bunch
They're boozers and carousers
See them hanging 'round in matching sweaters
throwing rocks at houses
They're afraid of linoluem
Afraid of being chase around the kitchen with their socks on by a pack of timberwolves
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Old 03-27-2006, 12:36 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Thanks!

I just found another part of the Song:

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dik Van Dkyes from Nobody Likes the Dik Van Dykes
I don't want it, youcan have it, curling is a filthy habit
We've got to stop all this senseless curling
Stop all this senseless curling
We've got to
stop
all
this senselessss....

curling....
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Old 03-27-2006, 12:48 PM   #15 (permalink)
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those american curlers are hotties...
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