Shoot an ice stick properly
Ice stock sport is a winter sport that combines both skill and exercise in the great outdoors in a sociable way. You can find out more about this winter activity here so that you can really keep up with the others when exercising in the fresh winter air and competing.
Ice stock sport offers physical activity in the crystal clear winter air, a sporty fighting spirit, but above all lots of fun and a good mood. This sporting activity has been around since the 13th Century and it was then only played in regions where there was a body of water that freezes over in winter. Nowadays, curling can even be played without ice, namely on a specially concreted and prepared lane.
This is how you can really shoot the curling
If you have already played bowling, then the sequence of movements in ice stock sport will not seem unfamiliar to you. The ice stock sport equipment is not as round as a bowling ball, but anyone who has been to a bowling alley at some point has pressed or just watched other bowling partners, the similarity of the individual steps and the swing of the arm recognize.
- First practice the sequence of movements of ice stock sport without even wanting to use the ice stock. To do this, take the ice stick in your right hand if you are right-handed.
- Grasp it so that your thumb and index finger are on the side of the disc and your little finger is pointing towards the open end of the stick.
- Your palm is pointing in the direction you want to shoot. The ice stock should not be held taut, but lie loosely but securely in your hand.
- Swing back and forth a few times to secure and possibly improve the grip of your hand.
- Now take a running start and stand in a lunge step so that your right foot is in front (if you are right-handed).
- The foot, lower leg and thigh should be optimally at right angles to each other.
- Your right arm should be behind your body at the maximum turning point of the swing motion, and your left arm should be pointing forward at the same angle.
- Now do another lunge step so that your left foot is set forward, at the same time move your right arm at the same time with the highest swing as well as carefully and precisely in front.
- When placing the ice stock on the ground, the bottom surface of the ice stock should be absolutely parallel to the ground.
- Practice this sequence of movements several times until you can master it with a certain degree of confidence. Then you can confidently dare your first attempts at curling.
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Usually, curling is intended as a team competition in which two teams of four try to shoot their respective curling stones as close as possible to the so-called stave (the target). Each game always consists of 6 turns (rounds). The team whose players place their ice sticks with the closest distance to the stave win. Incidentally, the stave can move constantly in the course of the turns.
