curling in Texas

When we heard about the DFW Curlign Club open house this weekend, Amy and I knew that we had to jump at the chance to try some curlign at the Dr. Pepper StarCenter in Duncanville. So Sunday afternoon we joined a crowd of a couple hundred people in giving the roaring game a try.

On the first go around, each person was given a chance to throw two shots half the length of the ice. It was a good chance to get the delivery technique and stance down and provided soem hilarious results with native Texas not used to the slippery curling ice. After everybody got the hang of it a bit, they started having the groups throw the length of the ice complete with sweepers and an expert skip calling the shots. Apparently I'm a natural at sweeping; I guess all those years of watching curlign on TV paid off somehow. My delivery was somewhat awkward looking but I was complimented on my smoothness and got some applause from the others waiting for their turn. Maybe it is naturally in Canadian DNA. Amy had a nice delivery, although was a little low on power and couldn't quite master the art of using the broom for balance. At least she didn't have a total wipe out though and there were a good dozen of those.

WBAP interviewed Amy, asking her why she decided to coem out and give curlign a try. When she responded that it was because her Canadian boyfriend had always been talkign about the sport, the interviewer responded with, "So this is your way of bonding with your Canadian boyfriend then?" It was classic.

They are going to start a spring/summer instructional league up in a month or so after the DFW Curlign Club regular season concludes. I'd really like to give it a try. Great, now we're going to have roller derby and curling conflicts every weekend. That's quite the unexpected combination.