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- The ‘hack’ is a foothold you use to push off from when you deliver the rock.
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Placement of Hack Foot. One important aspect of delivering the stone toward the broom is the placement of the gripper foot onto the hack. Always approach the hack from behind with your hips and shoulders square to the target.
I put my foot in the center of the hack for each shot. Are there advantages to moving it left or right to throw to the edges of the sheet? Is it more trouble than it’s worth?
Feb 28, 2018 · Dana Ferguson, the second on Val Sweeting’s 2014 Alberta women’s curling championship team, discusses how to properly set up in the hack before throwing a shot.
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The men's and women's tournaments are a competition between two teams with four players each. Mixed doubles is played by two players. One man and one woman on each team. The game is played on ice and the two teams take turns pushing 42-pound stones towards a series of concentric circles. The object is to get the stones as close to the center of the...
The center of the circles is known as the tee, which can also be referred to as the “button.” A team scores a point for each stone that is closer to the button than the opponents’ best stone, provided that the stone is within 6 feet (1.83 meters) of the tee. This circular area is known as the house; it is the scoring zone in curling. Games in the m...
Men's and women's teams deliver the stones in a set order, which is presented to the officials before the game. The first player is known as the lead, he or she is followed by the second, then the third (who is often called the vice-skip) and finally the skip, who is the leader of the team. Each end starts with the leads alternating throws until th...
Shooting last is described as “having the hammer.” If neither team scores, the team that shot last in the end, shoots last again in the next end.
The team with the most points at the conclusion of all ends is the winner. During the round robin, a team may concede the game once a minimum of six ends have been completed. During the playoffs, a minimum of eight ends must be completed. Conceding the game when the losing skip feels he is too far down to come back is fairly common and is an accept...
The playing surface in curling is 150 feet (45.72 meters) long and 16 feet, 5 inches (5 meters) wide. The ice is set up to accommodate play in both directions, meaning the surface is symmetrical with a house at each end.
The house is four concentric circles, with the outer edge of the outer circle having a radius of 6 feet, the next circle a radius of 4 feet, the next circle a radius of 2 feet, and the innermost circle having a minimum radius of 6 inches. This outside circle marks the edge of the house. Players start a stone moving from a rubber block called the ha...
The area between the hog line and the tee line, excluding the house, is known as the Free Guard Zone. No stone in this area may be removed from play by the opposition until the first four stones in an end have come to rest. Players are allowed to bump other stones with shots, but are not allowed to knock a stone out of play. Any shot played when th...
Before the start of every end, one team shall place their team’s “positioned” stone at the playing end of the sheet in one of two positions, designated A, and the opponent’s “positioned” stone shall then be placed in whichever position (A or B) remains vacant. The location of these positions shall be as follows: (a) Position A: Placement so that th...
Once per game, each team, when they have the decision on the placement of the “positioned” stones, can use the “Power Play” option to position the stones. The Power Play option cannot be used in extra ends. (a) The in-house stone, which belongs to the team with last stone in that end, is placed with the back edge of the stone abutting the front edg...
Jun 11, 2016 · In this article I am going to focus on the line of delivery (LOD), and the impact to the LOD of improper placement of the slide foot in the setup in the hack, a common fault I see at the bantam and junior levels.
Jan 15, 2014 · House Call: Tips for take-outs. A new curler sits in the hack staring at her skip at the far end. Her worst nightmare of a shot is being called; a take-out. As she stares down the broom she recalls past issues with attempted take-outs.
Which Hack to Use. Many players just stand arbitrarily in front of the hack ready to deliver but there are actually rules. Just as with an orthodox delivery, players using a stick also deliver from the correct hack. Left-handed players will deliver from the hack on the right of the centre line.
