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I offer you to come back to the final game of the World Ford Men’s Curling Championship 2009, to the last end of it and to pass through all shots.

What conclusions can we make of this? What could Kevin Martin do to improve this end?

A short guide for beginners.

This 'manual' is for those who has never played curling before. For those who watches it on TV and tries to understand what is going on.

I would propose to give it for free to anyone during competitions broadcasts. Then we will have more people who understand curling and more people who likes it.

I was watching this game live in Ornskoldsvik, on December, 13th at arena A. If a man will say that this game was amazing, it will mean nothing. David Murdoch just made a miracle in the 10th end with his double take-out and brought extra-end and opportunity to win to his team. Then he used this opportunity and won. By a chance or not, we don’t know (Tomas Ulsrud’s last stone was over swept) Scotland became European Champions.

I decided to analyze this game.

During each delivery we measure Stone Weight trying to predict when the stone will stop. But how precise these estimations are? And how can we improve them? What do we measure and what we should to?

Let's take a look on the stone delivery process from a bit different point of view!

I think many of you will agree that the stopwatch has been a very valuable addition to any curler’s broom bag. The point I want to make is that some curler’s need to learn when to leave it in their broom bag. I’ve seen too many young, inexperienced teams simply rely on the split time they get in order to judge weight of a draw shot – sometimes this works and they look brilliant, other times things go wrong and we have a very confused looking team on the ice.

Arnold Asham is a curling equipment maker who has revolutionized the industry time after time.

Beer is a very traditional part of the sport of curling, as it serves as a sportsmanlike gesture.