curling

vancouver olympic 2010

Curling

About the Sport

Training

The game of curling is more than 500 years old.

• Curling requires intense focus — something that only comes with experience, and it’s the reason curlers peak at a later age than many other sports.

• At their home curling clubs, individual competitors will also train individually, often with a coach, five or six times per week topractice technique and directional control of the stone.

• Competition are found at Scotland’s Paisley Abbey and date back to 1541.

• Elite curlers are in the weight room year round, mostly working on strength for delivery technique, and for driving out of the hack fast and balanced.

• During the off-season, 70 to 80 per cent of the year’s physical training occurs it is simply maintained during the competitive season when curling ramps up.

• Curling of groups of people sliding stones on frozen ponds and lochs

• The positions of a curling team hinges on the individual strengths and skills of the team members.

How It Work

• Eight stones — two stones per person and 16 altogether.

• The goal is to shoot the stones near the middle ring

• at the conclusion of 10 ends, is the winner.

One game consists of 10 “ends

• Each tournament has 10 curling teams