Sport travel: Toronto.

If you want to play Curling, you should travel to Toronto, Canada. In this city this sport has been
played since many years ago.
These are the places where you can practice this sport:

Leaside Curling Club

1075 Millwood Rd
Toronto, ON, Canad
OR
Royal Canadian Curling Club
131 Broadview
Toronto, ON, Canad
+1 416-461-0251
Curling is a game and it has been practiced since fifteenth century in frozen lakes.
Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice towards a target area which is
segmented into four concentricrings. It is related to bowls, boules and shuffleboard. Two teams,
each of four players, take turns sliding heavy, polished granitestones, also called rocks, across
the ice curling sheet towards the house, a circular target marked on the ice.[2] Each team has
eight stones. The purpose is to accumulate the highest score for a game; points are scored for
the stones resting closest to the centre of the house at the conclusion of each end, which is
completed when both teams have thrown all of their stones. A game may consist of ten or eight
ends.
In international competition, each side is given 73 minutes to complete all of its throws. Each
team is also allowed two 60-second timeouts per 10-end game. If extra ends are required, each
team is allowed 10 minutes of playing time to complete its throws and one added 60-second
timeout for each extra end.

Sweeping
After the stone is delivered, its trajectory is still influenced by the two sweepers under instruction
from the skip. Sweeping is done for two reasons: to reduce friction underneath the stone, and to
decrease the amount of curl. The stones curl more as they slow down, so sweeping early in
travel tends to increase distance as well as straighten the path, and sweeping after sideways
motion is established can increase the sideways distance. When sweeping, pressure and speed
of the brush head are key in slightly increasing the layer of moisture that builds up under the
stone.
Sweeping is allowed anywhere on the ice up to the tee line, as long as it is only for one's own
team stones. Once the leading edge of a team stone crosses the tee line only one player may
sweep it. Additionally, when a stone crosses the tee line, one player from the other team is
allowed to sweep it. This is the only case that a stone may be swept by an opposing team
member. In international rules, this player must be the skip; or if the skip is throwing, then the
sweeping player must be the third.

What do we need for playing Curling?

1) Coat (The surface of the ice is maintained at a temperature of around 23 F (5 C)).
2) Tennis sneakers: Curling shoes are similar to ordinary athletic shoes except that they
have dissimilar soles; the slider shoe is designed for the off foot (or sliding foot) and
the non-sliding shoe for the hack foot.
3) Curling stones
4) Curling broom
Curling sheet
The playing surface or curling sheet is a rectangular area of ice, carefully prepared to be as flat
and level as possible, 146 to 150 feet (45 to 46 m) in length by 14.5 to 16.5 feet (4.4 to 5.0 m) in
width. The shorter borders of the sheet are called the "backboards". Because of the elongated
shape, several sheets may be laid out side by side in the same arena, allowing multiple games
to be played simultaneously.

Curling Stone

The curling stone (also sometimes called a rock in North America) is made of granite and is
specified by the World Curling Federation, which requires a weight between 38 and 44 pounds
(17 and 20 kg) a maximum circumference of 36 inches (910 mm) and a minimum height of 4.5
inches (110 mm). The only part of the stone in contact with the ice is the running surface.
Curling Broom
The curling broom, or brush, is used to sweep the ice surface in the path of the stone, and is
also often used as a balancing aid during delivery of the stone.

Other equipment
Other types of equipment include:

Curling pants, made to be stretchy to accommodate the curling delivery.

A stopwatch to time the stones while sweeping to get a feel of the speed of the
stone. Stopwatches can be attached either to clothing or the broom itself.

Curling gloves and mittens, to keep the hands warm and improve grip on the
broom.

Como jugar?

Aquellos que vayan a jugar deben dividirse en dos equipos de 4.

Decide el orden en que lanzarn cada uno de los integrantes de los equipos de Curling. El
primero en lanzar se llama "Lead", el segundo para lanzar es "Second", el tercero es "Third o
vice skip" y el ltimo en lanzar se llama "Skip".
Para comenzar deben darse las manos entre ambos equipos y desearse unos a otros buena
suerte. Comportarse correctamente es uno de los fundamentos del Curling.
1
Alternarse por turnos entre los 2 equipos hasta que cada jugador haya lanzado 2 piedras.
Mientras que un jugador lanza, dos jugadores utilizan cepillos para cambiar la ruta de las
piedras y remover cualquier escombro que se halle en el camino.

2
El juego comienza con el "Lead" lanzando primero. El Skip indica por donde se debe lanzar y
que tan fuerte se debe hacerlo, mientras que el Second y el Vice se encargan de cepillar el
trayecto que seguir el tiro.
3
Se deben ir rotando los jugadores despus de que los lderes de ambos equipos han lanzado
sus piedras. Entonces tiene que lanzar el Second mientras que el Lead y el Vice van
cepillando el trayecto, a la vez que el Skip indica cul debe ser dicho trayecto.

4
El prximo lanzamiento lo deben realizar los Vices, mientras que los Leads y los Seconds
van barriendo el camino.
5
Finalmente debe lanzar el Skip, mientras que el Vice observa y el Lead y el Second"
barren el camino.
6
Determina qu equipo tiene una piedra ms cerca del tee, de las 8 que fueron lanzadas. Sea
cual sea el equipo que tenga la piedra ms cerca del tee sumar un punto para esta entrada
o "end".
7
Cuando se completa la entrada 8 se da por terminado el juego y gana el equipo con ms
puntos. En caso de un empate, se jugar una final ms para determinar un ganador. Cuando el
juego est completo, se debe agradecer a sus oponentes estrechndose las manos y diciendo
"Bueno para el Curling".