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I learned this yesterday while looking at the boopgate footage but curlers actually don’t use ice skates
They have one slidey shoe and one grippy shoe.
Yep, the slidey shoe has teflon on the bottom. You find all sorts of new stabilizing muscles being on the ice with one of those on and trying to move around. You’d be thrown out quickly if you got near curling ice with skates. Hockey/Arena ice is fucking awful to curl on even with some serious prep. No where near flat and full of skate gouges that catch the rock/broom/sliding foot.
Curling ice is also “pebbled” (intentionally sprinkled with water) and then “nipped” (peaks of the pebble shaved off) to further reduce friction for the rock. Sweeping affects the pebble in several ways affecting the “curl” of the rock (make it straighter or curve more) and the “weight” of the rock (make it go farther).
That’s funny, I was watching a video on Boston (the band/musician) last night and this was the exact example the OP used to describe his career trajectory. Within six years of deciding to become a musician he had a number one album. Exactly like saying ‘Im going to learn to skate’ then becoming so good at it so fast you wind up skating in the next olympics.
That sounds fascinating and I love Boston. Do you have a link?
As a Boston loving millennial I had no idea what a genius / mad man Tom Scholz was and is.
Thank you!
Everyone’s coming at the Olympics if that condom story is to be believed
I’ve not heard that story what is it?
There’s a story like this that gets posted every Olympics. Basically everyone is fucking.
Brilliant! What happens at the Olympics stays at the Olympics…
Unless you get an STD.
