The Bond Girls, from Hollywood Curling Club in Los Angeles (yes there is curling in La La Land) have qualified for the USCA Women's Club Championships in the MOPAC region! We've got a promotional video up, it's a silly little thing.

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And oh yeah, only our 2nd time playing all together on dedicated curling ice and we beat the Washington team 11 ( Read more... )

Tomorrow the Fairbanks [Alaska] Curling Club opens up for the season!

I'm going to get a new pair of shoes this year but I'm stuck. Is there really any difference between perimeter sliders and full sliders?

Hey guys! I'm so glad to find this community, because I'm feeling sort of stressed and freaked out, and am looking for some advice. My name's Chantal, I'm 16 and I've only been curling for two months. My team's coach has never had me play skip ever, and suddenly they want me to play skip in the tournament, WHICH IS TUESDAY! O.o ( Read more... )

Well, it happened again ( Read more... )

I posted this on my journal but thought it appropriate for this community.  To fill in some blanks, I am a member of the Royal Montreal Curling Club (est. 1807) Check out:  Royal Montreal Curling Club.    Our annual bonspiel, the Centenary, is currently underway.  Formerly a men's event, it is now an open one.
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For those who don't know me, I ( Read more... )

I'll soon be skipping for the first time in a playdown to qualify for a local bonspiel. My vice is familiar with our opponents and describes them thusly ( Read more... )

Hello all, I'm new to this community. I've enjoyed curling ever since I saw a match played when I was a little kid. Once it hit the olympics my fascination with it broadened, and now that I can watch the worlds online, well, I'm in heaven. There aren'e many places in Massachusetts to curl, but there are enough and Massachusetts is such a small ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon I was watching the Men's Canada Cup game between Randy Ferby and Kevin Martin.  In the 10th end the Ferby team burnt a rock on the house by kicking the rock.  Then in the 11th end Kevin Martin burnt the final rock of the game.  So in the end the Ferby foursome won the game.  I mean come on teams at that level should know better ( Read more... )

After last weeks playdowns the field is as follows for the Scotties in Lethbridge:

Alberta: Cheryl Bernard
Britsh Columbia: Kelly Law
Canada: Kelly Scott
Manitoba:  Jennifer Jones
New Brunswick: Sandy Comeau
Newfoundland and Labrador: Heather Strong
Nova Scotia: Jill Mouzar
Ontario:  Krista Scharf
Prince Edward Island: Suzanne Gaudet
Québec: Chantel Osborne
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The ladies curling league I am in we just celebrated out 50th anniversary on the 4th of this month.  While there those of us on the comittee for organizing it read this out:

10.  They start pebbling the ice in the fourth end.
  9.   Your skip keeps saying "Nice Try!"
  8.   Your oppostion starts hanging its score on the next sheet.
  7.   While you are ( Read more... )