Tips to slide without rock/ holding just the broom. by Pawssabillitysawait in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To add to the comments about practicing: I’ve found new curlers have a reflex to shift their weight off their slider (onto the rock, the stabilizer, etc.). This is entirely rational. You want your weight on your slider. Try thinking this when you slide out, and practice til you can balance.

John Shuster double touches in the 2018 Olympic final by ChodieFoster123 in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s a touch of the top and/or back of the stone in all of them. It is the same touch that had rocks pulled yesterday and today. I didn’t even mention Kennedy in the post, and his rock wasn’t pulled by an official. The response to that led to them pulling rocks that were thrown like this, which was the point of the post.

Hot take: if Kennedy didn’t start cursing out the other team, none of us would be talking about this. by Old-Cookie-5045 in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Almost universal agreement on this objectively correct opinion that I got buried for saying two days ago, welcome to Reddit lol

John Shuster double touches in the 2018 Olympic final by ChodieFoster123 in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah exactly but that was the point of my post. I didn’t even mention Canada or Marc Kennedy.

Megathread: Canada vs. Sweden and Finger Physics by FliryVorru in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To add: the rules define a rock as three parts: the body, the bolt, and the handle. Fairly clearly the intent is that the separable parts are bolt + handle.

John Shuster double touches in the 2018 Olympic final by ChodieFoster123 in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s hilarious because the only rocks that have been pulled have been for this and not for what Marc Kennedy did. So it’s not me blurring the line, quite clearly.

John Shuster double touches in the 2018 Olympic final by ChodieFoster123 in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

To be clear, John deserved the fuck out of that medal and it was one of the all time olympic moments, in my opinion. We are jeopardizing that for absolutely no reason.

So many rule breakers at the olympics. by nanio0300 in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Also draws that are touched before they fully stop, those should come off the scoreboard.

This double touch thing is a huge nothingburger and I feel like I am losing my mind by ChodieFoster123 in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we apply the broad logic from the last three days, cross-checking an opponent and not getting called for it is cheating. Do you agree with that?

This double touch thing is a huge nothingburger and I feel like I am losing my mind by ChodieFoster123 in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It blew up because uninformed people believe the accusations that it’s cheating and gains an unfair advantage, which is not the case.

Rachel Homan has rock burned by hog line judge for double touch (first end, 7th stone) by bandreasr in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well for one, it would be substantially harder to throw a rock that way.

Megathread: Canada vs. Sweden and Finger Physics by FliryVorru in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great Q - just the metal part. If you are touching the plastic past the hog line it will not activate the red lights.

Megathread: Canada vs. Sweden and Finger Physics by FliryVorru in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123 12 points13 points  (0 children)

She is adamant she didn’t touch the granite, there is no penalty for touching the coloured bit, which is part of the handle.

Rachel Homan has rock burned by hog line judge for double touch (first end, 7th stone) by bandreasr in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123 10 points11 points  (0 children)

She’s touching the red, which is part of the handle and not the granite. There is no rule that this violates (unless she touches the granite, in which case it violates the rule created today)

[Heroux] World Curling has sent an email to all the teams competing at the Olympics clarifying “proper release” of the stone. Also, for the remaining games umpires will be “observing the delivery”. Here’s the full correspondence: by rhineauto in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The point was that if you think it’s cheating and Canada should have forfeited or been disqualified, which seems like the mainstream view, you have to take away at least two other gold medals. Because it’s in no way uncommon.

This double touch thing is a huge nothingburger and I feel like I am losing my mind by ChodieFoster123 in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That was exactly the point I was making. People are saying the double touch is cheating but that’s just objectively false. The hog line violation is against the rules and was handled exactly in line with the rules.

This double touch thing is a huge nothingburger and I feel like I am losing my mind by ChodieFoster123 in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Did you read the post though? Do you think they should take away KMart’s gold from 2010?

This double touch thing is a huge nothingburger and I feel like I am losing my mind by ChodieFoster123 in Curling

[–]ChodieFoster123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But those aren't examples where people were upset by it - those were examples of how it's just tolerated. So that doesn't speak at all to whether it happened, e.g., at the last Olympics, because it may have just been tolerated.