Friday, May 14, 2010

Jon Curling

You said you would believe it when you see it... So here you go...
This is my first attempt.







Unlike bowling (which is the closest comparable "sport"), you have to be very careful of the speed at which you release the stone. You actually have to try to get it to stop about 6 feet in front of your target because the sweepers can add ~10 feet if they sweep the whole way. That gives them the control over when the stone will stop. Unfortunately you have to throw it very soft to get that to happen. This first one was a bit long... Of the 9 rocks I threw in our match, I scored 3 points, and clear 2 of our opponents rocks. And the other 5 stones.. well.. we won't talk about those...

Here's a pick of my last stone, tie match.. then this happened:




Clearly I am the Michael Jordan of Curling. 1993-1994 Michael Jordan where he stopped doing what he was good at, attempted a new sport, hit like one homerun, struck our a bunch of times then went back to doing what he was good at.

2 comments:

  1. you should definitely go back to what you are good at.... too bad you have to figure out what that is ;D

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