Who invented curling and why are Canadians so good at it?
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It is played on ice and you can be fat and drunk and still be competitive.  Canadians are genetically predisposed to the game, since in old times we used to test the thickness of the ice for safety purposes by hurling pets and children out onto it.  After 1980, the George Foreman burger maker was used for this purpose.
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Yes. It takes skill to be able to throw consistently. If they made curling a winter event then why not shoes for summer? Who do you contact to get this going? I like the idea of it.
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The Macdonald Brier was started in 1927 as a national men's curling competition. The name "Brier" came from a brand of tobacco manufactured by the event's sponsor, Macdonald Tobacco. By definition, a brier is a small shrub whose roots are used to make tobacco pipes, and the word can also refer to such a pipe.
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Curling is huge in Canada.  Have you ever done it? \n\nDo you know how much a rock (curling stone) weighs? \n\nIt is a lot of work, to get that rock to go to the other end of the ice...and sweeping on the ice assists it. \n\nThere are 4 people..the Skip, Vice, Second & Lead, and they all have crucial roles to play. \n\nYou need to have the right strength, and know the ice surface, and have the right turn to make the rock go the direction you like.  You need to be quick to make sure you keep up with the rock, and as you approach the house (the circle), you need to be very careful you don't burn (touch) any of the rocks.  \n\nIt is a sport. \nTrust me, it is a lot harder than it looks.  Unless you have played...you shouldn't judge.  If they have made it look easy, it is because they are good....and deserve to be there.
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lacrosse was invented by the iriquios(sp) a few hundred years ago, i think its about 500 years ago. \nbut when they played, it was like sacred, there was no roughing other players and each team had dozens of ppl on the field. sounds like crazy fun though.
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Canadians have bigger balls (yes I am talking about the footballs)\n;)
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Doesnthaveanythingtodowith   Curling
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Overarm bowling was invented by a woman.  Christine Willes, way back in 1805
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The hacks are put in temprarily, and either frozen in, or drilled in. When the curling is done, they take them out and re-freeze the ice. Hockey ice is also very different from curling ice and has to be treated differently anyway...\n\nSkating rink ice is generally pretty awful by curling-club standards, and is usually quite a bit harder to play on.
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It is generally agreed that curling originated in my beloved Scotland.  An actual stone was discovered in recent years with the date 1511 etched into it.
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Curling is a joke\nhahaha sorry, I love curling, but I don't know any jokes about it\n\nIt's easy to make fun of, I guess... :-&#92;
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Curling is played on a rectangular sheet of prepared ice into which two round, painted, archery-like targets (called the house) have been embedded. The game involves two teams of four players. These teams are called rinks and named for the team’s captain, who is known as the “skip”. Each team has eight polished granite stones, called stones or rocks, with which they try to score.\n\nDuring each round of play, called an end, each player slides two stones along the surface of the ice. Play alternates between teams, each throwing one stone on their turn. The person throwing the stone influences where the stone stops by the amount of force used, called the weight, the spin (turn), and the direction of the throw. Additionally, the final position of the stone is changed by sweeping or brushing the path in front of the stone to reduce curl and increase distance. Once all the stones have been thrown during an end, the score is determined and the play reverses direction back to the other house.\n\nThe players are known as the lead, second, third and skip, and traditionally throw stones in that order . The skip acts as the team’s captain, determining the position played by each player, strategy during the game, holding the broom in the house as a target for the shooters, and representing the rink. However, there is nothing in the rules to say where in the order the skip plays and in recent years the skip has thrown second or third stones on some teams.\n\nThe basic goal of each end is to have your curling stones nearer to the center of the target once all the stones from both teams have been thrown for that end. Therefore, the maximum number of points a team can earn per end is eight, though this is extremely rare because only the closest stones belonging to one of the two teams are counted. Strategies used during play, such as blocking (guard) and hitting rocks to reposition them (bump) or remove them from play (take-out) lead to lower scores. The term draw is used to describe a shot that comes to rest in the house without making contact with another stone. To peel means to remove both the target stone and the shooter's stone from play. For more information, see Types of shots below.\n\nTo help ensure the stone lands where intended, the skip stands in the house and indicates to the player throwing where to aim given the desired effect of the shot. The other two players sweep in front of the rock. Once thrown, players may not touch a stone while it is moving, so sweeping is the only way to influence the stone once thrown. Games, called matches, usually last eight ends, though in competitive curling there are usually ten ends and some recreational games last six ends.
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Don't forget to choose the best answer.\nWe are real people answering real questions with real answers so please show your appreciation by choosing the best answer! \n\nWhat's curling?
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Unfortunately the World Championships are over (Scotland took the gold) but you could have watched the round robin matches for Canada on Curl TV's website (www.curltv.com). You can see highlights of the entire event on ESPN2 April 16 from 3:00 - 5:00
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This is fairly comprehensive, and will lead to other sites:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling
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-basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith.\n\n-He invented it for the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891.  he needed to come up with a game that could be played indoors (winter months), that wasn't too violent (like rugby or football), and had a system of scoring that awarded skill over force (a horizontal goal instead of a vertical goal like soccer).\n\n-he origianlly made 13 rules, and then modified them as his students worked out the mechanics of the game.\n\n-the baskets were origianlly peach barrels nailed to the wooden railing that was 10ft above the gym floor (that's why today's nets are the same height)\n\n-shooting at the basket was based on the game "duck on rock", where the player tried to arc a stone and know another stone off a pedastal.  the better players arced their shots, so if they missed they wouldn't have to run as fall to get their stones back\n\nThat good enough?
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Curling is a precision team sport similar to bowls or bocce, played on a rectangular sheet of prepared ice by two teams of four players each, using heavy polished granite stones which they slide down the ice towards a target area called the house. Points are scored for the number of stones that a team has closer to the center of the target than the closest of the other team's stones. The level of precision and complex nature of the strategic thinking required to win has led curling to be referred to as "chess on ice."\n\nCurling is played on a rectangular sheet of prepared ice into which two round, painted, archery-like targets (called the house) have been embedded. The game involves two teams of four players. These teams are called rinks and named for the team’s captain, who is known as the “skip”. Each team has eight polished granite stones, called stones or rocks, with which they try to score.\n\nDuring each round of play, called an end, each player slides two stones along the surface of the ice. Play alternates between teams, each throwing one stone on their turn. The person throwing the stone influences where the stone stops by the amount of force used, called the weight, the spin (turn), and the direction of the throw. Additionally, the final position of the stone is changed by sweeping or brushing the path in front of the stone to reduce curl and increase distance. Once all the stones have been thrown during an end, the score is determined and the play reverses direction back to the other house.\n\nThe players are known as the lead, second, third and skip, and traditionally throw stones in that order . The skip acts as the team’s captain, determining the position played by each player, strategy during the game, holding the broom in the house as a target for the shooters, and representing the rink. However, there is nothing in the rules to say where in the order the skip plays and in recent years the skip has thrown second or third stones on some teams.\n\nThe basic goal of each end is to have your curling stones nearer to the center of the target once all the stones from both teams have been thrown for that end. Therefore, the maximum number of points a team can earn per end is eight, though this is extremely rare because only the closest stones belonging to one of the two teams are counted. Strategies used during play, such as blocking (guard) and hitting rocks to reposition them (bump) or remove them from play (take-out) lead to lower scores. The term draw is used to describe a shot that comes to rest in the house without making contact with another stone. To peel means to remove both the target stone and the shooter's stone from play. For more information, see Types of shots below.\n\nTo help ensure the stone lands where intended, the skip stands in the house and indicates to the player throwing where to aim given the desired effect of the shot. The other two players sweep in front of the rock. Once thrown, players may not touch a stone while it is moving, so sweeping is the only way to influence the stone once thrown. Games, called matches, usually last eight ends, though in competitive curling there are usually ten ends and some recreational games last six ends.\n\nA competitive game usually consists of ten ends. Recreational games are more commonly only eight or even six ends. An end consists of each player from both teams throwing two rocks with the players on each side alternating shots, for a total of sixteen rocks. If the teams are tied at the completion of ten ends an extra end is played to break the tie. If the match is still tied after the extra end, play continues for as many ends as may be required to break the tie. The winner is the team with the highest score after all ends have been completed.\n\nIt is not uncommon at any level for a losing team to terminate the match before all ends are completed if it believes it no longer has a realistic chance of winning. Most competitive