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>>Today we're going 
to meet up with a

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group of men and women 
who gather weekly

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to socialize and compete in 
a sport that might look easy,

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but is often referred 
to as chess on ice.

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Join us as we check out the 
Blue Ridge Curling Club.

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Come on!

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>>Curling is a staple 
of my Monday's.

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It's something that I look 
forward to every week.

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Get to see a lot 
of familiar faces

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and get to go with 
my friends in a nice

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relaxed atmosphere and have a

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little friendly 
competition on the side.

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>>It's my favorite sport.

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Curling is a sport 
played on the ice.

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Some people compare 
it to shuffle board.

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We throw big 42 pound 
granite rocks across the ice

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back and forth at a target.

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It's been an Olympic 
sport since, oh gosh,

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for the last three 
winter Olympics I think.

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And we have a new club 
in Charlottesville

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and it's, I mean for 
us, a lot of fun.

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It goes all the whole range 
of casual beer league,

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to super competitive 
Olympic level athletes.

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>>And so the point 
of the game is...

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>>So the point of the game is to

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score more points than 
your opponent by having

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more of your team's stones

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in the center of the house,

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which is sort of our 
target on the ice,

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>>Okay. 
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So you score more 
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how many rocks you 
have on that target.

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>>Okay. So, first of 
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you have to prepare the ice.

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Talk about the set up 
before anyone can curl.

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>>Yeah. For us, 
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in the curling world, 
called arena ice,

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which means we share 
it with other sports.

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>>Okay.

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>>There are facilities 
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specifically to curling 
and their ice is

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prepared a little differently

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because they don't 
have to share.

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>>Right.

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>>But we go on right 
after kids hockey,

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so we have to do 
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we're ready to get on the ice.

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First they resurface 
with the Zamboni

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and that gets rid of sort of the

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surface scratches and 
stuff that are left

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by the previous sport. 
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>>Then we pebble, which is 
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that we spray across 
the ice surface.

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And those little 
water droplets form,

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they freeze into little 
beads on the surface

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of the ice. 
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>>Which basically breaks 
the surface tension between

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the rocks that we're throwing 
and the surface of the ice.

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>>Right. 
>>So it gives you some more

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control over your shots. 
It gives you a more

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predictable shot 
and lets your rocks

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go that whole hundred and some 
feet down to the other side.

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We mount hacks into the ice

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which allow us to 
push off and get that

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nice long glide 
that those beautiful

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athletes on TV have (laughs).

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>>Yeah. Like a runners 
block almost, right?

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>>Yeah, exactly. And 
you know we need all of

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our rocks. We bring 
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And like most clubs 
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we provide all of the 
equipment for our players.

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So we bring all of the 
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and then it's ready to go.

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>>I curl because it looked like

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something fun to do on Mondays.

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Me and my boyfriend 
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and we were randomly 
given two other people.

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We have a lot of 
fun. They're good.

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They did it last season, 
so it's helping us out.

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We're learning from that

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and also just standing 
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Like it should be a life skill.

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>>Don't be afraid. 
It's not by no means

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a normal motion 
unless you're doing

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lunges on your kitchen 
floor in socks.

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So yeah, just come 
out, give your all,

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and just kind of 
keep an open mind and

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be willing to come out 
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That's really all we can ask. 
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You know it's just 
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higher pressure spot I guess but

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it's always fun to be able to 
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just be able to contribute.

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It's something that I can 
really control on my own,

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verses the sweeping 
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helping out a teammate 
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but it's your one 
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to throw. So I really 
like that spot the best.

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>>So explain the positions.

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Like what does everybody 
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>>So you have the 
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a vice skip, and your skip,

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and you throw in that order.

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So first, second, 
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Your lead, generally 
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guard shots. So you 
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a lot of control over 
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throw their rock and 
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to sort of protect 
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opponent's rocks. 
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>>A lot of times your 
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to do take out shots. 
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>>Your second is someone 
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nice strong consistent 
weight, who can kind of

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clear things out 
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really strong sweepers, 
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on your front end to be 
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>>And then your back end, 
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are sort of more 
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They're watching the ice, 
they're seeing how it goes,

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sort of planning a 
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Your vice is like your 
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They have to be able to set 
whatever up that you need

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>>Hoping that it lasts for 
the next couple of shots.

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Ideally, I play skip 
on my team here.

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I like to have to do 
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So I'm hoping everybody 
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before I get there. 
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your skip is usually 
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more of a strategic mind,

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So you don't, I as 
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have to come into a big 
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I like to sort of 
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rocks in the house.

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>>You count on everyone else 
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>>That's great. 
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>>Okay so, let's talk about 
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This is a weekly, during the 
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Who comes and plays?

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>>Oh my gosh, all 
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It's one of the the 
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about curling, is 
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have a lot of natural 
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we're warmer climate, 
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who have seen somewhere, 
whether in the Olympics,

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or you know they heard about 
it and they're curious,

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it's an understatement to say 
all kinds of different people.

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>>And they don't have 
to have experience.

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>>Nope! No, absolutely 
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I mean, it's another one 
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about curling, is how 
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to people who are new. The 
best curlers that I have

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played with who just 
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a hundred times, are 
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and encouraging people 
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to meet and play with.

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So a lot of what underpins 
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is growing and helping 
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and helping them find a 
place that's comfortable

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for them to kind of 
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and you know, the 
fellowship of that is

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really important to 
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but to us as a club 
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>>It's a fun time to come out

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and get with a group 
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I'm an older person and 
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very young people 
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I look forward to it.

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I almost look at them 
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>>Well it all started 
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curling team in the Olympics. 
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some kind of pants 
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and from the pants 
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and it's just silly. 
We like to have fun.

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You can't find these 
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you have to have them ordered,

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but fortunately my team is 
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so we all kind of pitch 
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what we want to 
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people think it looks 
easier than it is.

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I mean I think you can, 
it's a tricky sport,

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but I think it looks easy 
until you get out there

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and try it.

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>>Yeah, it's definitely 
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genuinely think is 
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at all different fitness levels.

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how hard you're working

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until you're on the ice. It 
requires a lot of balance.

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>>Right 
>>Which moves your muscles

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and asks your body to 
do all kinds of things

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you're not used to 
when you're not used to

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walking on the ice. 
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>>Like the thing I do 
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in the rest of my 
fitness life is yoga.

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You know it requires 
strength and balance

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and attention to your 
body and consistency

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in the way that you move,

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which I think is 
unexpected for people

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who haven't played before.

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>>Right. And strategy 
is like chess on ice

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you say, people 
say. Chess on ice.

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>>Yeah, people like the 
chess on ice analogy.

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I think people like it 
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they're extra clever 
about their curling game.

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But it's true, you have 
to kind of think about

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what the other team's 
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Is it a team that you've played?

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Do you know what their 
behaviors are like?

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Do you know what 
their shots are like?

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When you look at the 
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positions of the rocks, 
can you think ahead

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about how the next stone 
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>>Right. 
>>And so it is very much

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about thinking ahead 
and planning your shots

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in advance and knowing 
the personalities

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and skills of who you 
play with and against.

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>>Talk about the 
benefits of being a club.

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>>Yeah, well for 
starters, it allows you to

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have some kind of control 
over the way that you

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form your mission, which 
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in a sport that's so 
much about growing

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and bringing new people 
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able to keep that as a focus.

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>>Also as a curler, 
it gives you access

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to all kinds of 
training and development

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as a player and as a 
team that you don't have

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when you're just kind of 
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>>In a facility that 
happens to offer the sport.

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So you can compete on 
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level if you're a 
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you can pursue coaching 
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You can go to skills 
clinics, you can meet amazing

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curlers and work with 
them on your game,

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and you can go experience 
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I mean this is my home 
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But it's really a fantastic 
learning experience

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to go somewhere else with 
a different set of people,

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different sets of skills 
to kind of develop

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your game in that way.

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>>Right. And you travel. 
So you will sometimes

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compete nationally.

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>>Yes. Sometimes when 
I'm very lucky. (laughs)

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>>And then some people just 
come here to have a beer

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and see how they do.

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>>Oh yeah, absolutely. And 
it's, to me, so wonderful

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to have both of those 
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in the same league. 
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and against those 
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we learn things from them and 
they learn things from us.

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I mean that's just, 
that's my favorite part

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is being able to have 
that kind of diversity and

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interest and skill and 
just see what the give

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and take is like on the ice.

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>>So how often do you all play?

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>>We play once every 
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and we have three 
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And we play two seasons a year.

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So we have one full 
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late summer early fall, 
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that starts in the winter.

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The start of every 
season we do have

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learn to curl events. So 
if people are curious,

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it gives you an opportunity 
without committing

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to 15 weeks of something 
you've never done before.

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>>And so if people 
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what do they do?

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>>Oh my gosh! The easiest 
thing is just to come

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down here on Monday 
night! (laughter)

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Because I will be floating 
around looking for people

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to talk to about curling.

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>>And then there's 
a Facebook page.

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>>Yeah. So we have a 
Facebook page right now

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that's probably the 
most active, and then

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if you're ever on the downtown 
mall on a Monday night

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come and stop in and have a beer

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and ask us questions 
and try it out.

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It's a pretty flexible group.

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>>And what is your best 
advice to a novice curler?

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>>My best advice to 
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it's just a learning 
environment and a

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fun environment to be 
in. So just kind of

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remember the curiosity 
and interest and the fun.

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>>I am not good at all, 
no, but I have fun which is

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the most important part. 
It's great to come out

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with friends and coworkers 
on a Monday night

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and just do something 
different and have fun.

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>>When you first start 
the funny thing is like

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you get, you're worried 
you're not going

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to make the rock all 
the down the sheet

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and then like after like 
a few times you're like

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I have too much power, 
I have too much power.

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Like you can't stop 
it so. (laughs)

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but no I'm not losing 
sleep over it yet.

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>>You know people see this 
in the Olympics and they're

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like, oh who does that? 
But we do and it's fun!

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Like I tell people I do 
this and I get such a

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fun reaction and I get 
to talk about this sport

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and you know, it's just 
something unique to be

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out here that's great 
that Charlottesville

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has for us.

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(happy jazz music)