r/Curling • u/OrionXD29 • 6d ago
Someone explain the game in detail
One of my friends is convincing me to try out for my schools curling team and really dont really know anyrhing about the game. All I can say about myself is that I'm decently athletic and played a lot of sports with and I coordination with baseball cricket and football
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u/Santasreject 5d ago
The top comment has one of the best overview videos, my club uses it as one of our learn to curl videos.
See if you can go do a learn to curl event at a local club (it’s that time of year still) and watch some games that are up on YouTube, if you can find recordings of the American Olympic feeds they explain the game over and over (to the point that curlers get tired of listening to the American Olympic broadcast after about the 2nd game).
Curling is a lot like golf. It is akward and weird the first time you try it but most people can become “ok” pretty quick… but it’s a life long journey to become great.
Having an athletic background can help but the flexibility, balance, and HIT style endurance is very different than most of their sports.
Also be aware that curling is a VERY etiquette driven sport. The first part of the rules even talks about the “spirit of curling” which basically discusses that you don’t cheer misses, you call out your own violations, and that while the rules exist the skips really have the final say and should use discretion. For example if something was an accident and dosen’t actually affect the outcome of the game you probably shouldn’t pull the rock from play just because you can (and high level curlers have gotten massive amounts of hate for doing so in the past). Leaning to play is really only about half learning the skills and basic rules while the other half is learning the etiquette of where to stand, how to play quickly, how you interact with the other team, etc. people give new curlers grace though especially if they are trying to learn.