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Another snowy day here in NY, yippy. I'm just chillin at my crib, former known as "the crackspot" now known as "the fortress of solitude". You been watching the winter Olympics?? Yea, me either. Not a big fan of the winter Olympics, even thought they tried to spice it up this year by killing that Luger. Total ratings ploy.
The one event I am a big fan of is CURLING! Curling is the shit! In case you dont know, Curling is the event where one guy throws the rock and the other guys use the brooms to sweep the ice. It's like Bocce ball but on ice. Curling is HUGE in Canada. It's the second most viewed sport in the country behind, of course, Hockey. Curling in America really isn't that big but it's been gaining in popularity...it was even the focus of a Simpsons episode recently where Marge and Homer become Olympic Curlers. Hilarious!
Most people who watch Curling think that it's really easy and that anyone could be good at it. Let me tell you, its not as easy as it looks...but it kinda is. Allow me to explain. After the last winter Olympics, in whatever country it was at, I was hot for Curling. Being the excellent athlete that I am, I was looking for a new sporting challenge and Curling was the drink that would quench my thirst.
As luck would have it, there was a Curling club in near by Westchester that was hosting an open house for new members. I found a crew of like minded individuals who were down with Curling and we formed a team. We all went in feeling pretty confident that we'd do it a few times, become awesome at it and eventually be contenders for the 2010 Olympics. We were wrong.
Curling is a game of precision and accuracy. You need to have strong balance if you're gonna be any good at it because you're running on ice. Our team would always Curl on Sunday mornings, which wasn't good for balance because we'd always show up hungover. Many a busted ass. After a match the club preferred teams hang out in the clubhouse and socialize. The clubhouse was really nice, it was like a ski lodge, but we hated the forced socialization. The people at this particular Curling club were some of the biggest nerds I'd ever seen in my life. We were the youngest group of people there, everyone else was like 45 years old and up. If we weren't talking about Curling there would be a lot of awkward silence.
Our team struggled throughout the season. We maybe won 1 or 2 games if that... Like, I said it's not as easy as it looks on TV. You get mad tired when you're trying to sweep that ice and run at the same time! I enjoyed playing all positions on the ice (there's 4 of em ) but the best part of Curling is when you get the throw the rock, or also known as the stone. That's the time when you get to slide on the ice! Mad fun! The club provided players with teflon 'boots' that you'd attach to the sole of your sneaker. That shit would make you fly down the ice! If you couldn't handle the teflon 'boot' they'd give you some hospital type cloth you could put over your sneaker but you wouldn't slide as far. It was for pussies. I was the only one on our team to master the teflon... clearly I was the best!
The season ended and so did our hopes of becoming Olympic Curlers. Like I said, I was the best on the team. I probably would have made the Curling All-Star team if they had one, but they didn't. Our team never returned for a second season, mainly because 2 of us never paid the club fee to play. That shit was $200! Plus the cost of drinks during the forced socialization! The club still sends me a bill every month and laugh at their persistence. I rip it up and throw it in the garbage but at the same time remembering the great times I had Curling while hungover.
3 comments:
I have a beef with a few of your comments. "I was the only one on our team to master the teflon... clearly I was the best!" and "Like I said, I was the best on the team. I probably would have made the Curling All-Star team if they had one, but they didn't."
I've heard from others involved that a few of you were all pretty much at the same level and I also heard that your refusal to be the Skip made people believe you didn't have the "stones" when it counted. Any one could throw a stone so it lands just past the hog line or on the T-line when the house is empty. Where were you when the pressure was on and the hammer was being thrown? Sweeping like a bitch....
Love your blog btw. See ya at the next bonspiel!!!
-Robyn
I hope you took one of those curling brooms home to sweep up the pieces of your broken dreams.
well done S.A. that'd be too much to broom im using a vacuum
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