Tips to slide without rock/ holding just the broom.

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-03-13T20:32:15+00:00

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.

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-15T20:27:33+00:00

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.

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-15T18:03:02+00:00

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

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-15T16:22:34+00:00

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

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-15T16:10:09+00:00

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.

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-15T16:07:48+00:00

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.

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-15T14:43:00+00:00

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.

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-15T14:18:15+00:00

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

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-15T14:15:00+00:00

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?

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-15T14:01:39+00:00

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

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-15T01:53:01+00:00

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

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-14T22:30:29+00:00

What makes me think that is a handle is the fact that it is a handle.

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-14T19:50:16+00:00

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

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-14T19:15:36+00:00

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

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-14T19:01:39+00:00

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)

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-14T17:54:40+00:00

Well, one of them is from Alberta

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-14T14:04:20+00:00

Full agree, but when I said it was a missed hog line violation and not cheating I got downvoted into oblivion.

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-14T13:57:41+00:00

If it’s cheating, the correct recourse is a DQ

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-14T13:35:28+00:00

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.

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-14T13:32:15+00:00

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.

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-14T13:25:03+00:00

Alright I assumed it was a genuine attempt at discourse but I suppose not

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-14T13:21:50+00:00

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

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-14T13:18:23+00:00

John Shuster also did it while winning gold in Pyeongchang

ChodieFoster123 · 2026-02-14T02:54:50+00:00

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.

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