The Curling 101 event was a fun learning experience. I thought curling was a sport where athletes moved the rock with their broomsticks, but I was wrong. The sport involved releasing the rock towards the direction the spotter was directing while executing a slide movement with one leg and the other leg in a bending position. Two people rubbed the ice with their broomsticks swiftly while the rock moved, but they cannot touch the rock. I am grateful to GRF Ty and Mary for teaching us the techniques and supporting us with compliments and feedback. We had time to play two games, and each of the four group members were able to release the rock, rub the ice with their broomsticks, and act as a spotter. The ice was not in good condition, so most of the rocks for both my team and the other team went outside the lane. Despite that, we all had a great time. We improved our skills from the beginning when we learned the sport to when we played the game.
I didn’t realize that there was so much nuance to curling. I thought it was just a fairly easy game of trying to hit a target with the what I now know is a rock. I didn’t realize that the rock could go out or that there even was such thing as a spotter. Out of curiosity, is the one straight leg and one bend leg a requirement?