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Introduction | |
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About This Book | |
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Why You Need This Book | |
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How to Use This Book | |
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How This Book Is Organized | |
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Getting Started | |
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Curling Fundamentals | |
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Hurry Hard! Playing the Game | |
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Getting Better | |
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Behind the Glass | |
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The Part of Tens | |
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Icons Used in This Book | |
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Getting Started | |
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What Is Curling? | |
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What's This Game of Rocks and Brooms About? | |
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Throwing rocks | |
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Curling rocks | |
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Shooting and scoring | |
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Sweeping - more than just cleaning up around the house | |
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A thinking person's game | |
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Why Curl? | |
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You can play at any age | |
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You can play with your wife - or girlfriend, or husband, or boyfriend, or... | |
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You can learn how to play in one day (really, you can) | |
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You can play without taking out a second mortgage | |
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You don't have to be in rip-roaring shape | |
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You can play in a wheelchair | |
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A Game for Everyone | |
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A Community's Heart and Soul | |
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Kilts and Cannonballs: Where Curling Comes From | |
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Origins of the Game | |
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Continental Europe | |
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Scotland the brave | |
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Canada Rocks | |
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Prairie roots | |
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The iron crowd in Quebec | |
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Around the Globe | |
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Oh say, can you curl | |
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Europe and the rest of the world | |
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Curling Fundamentals | |
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The Equipment | |
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Shoes and Sliders | |
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Types of sliders | |
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The speed of your slider | |
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Caring for your slider | |
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The best shoes for the game | |
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Brooms | |
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Push brooms | |
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Types of push brooms | |
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Handles | |
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Gloves | |
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Sweaters | |
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Pants | |
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The Ice | |
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This Isn't Hockey Ice, You Know | |
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Pebbling the Ice | |
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Maintaining the Ice | |
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Cleaning the ice | |
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Breaking in the ice | |
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Scraping the ice | |
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What players can do | |
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Rock and Roll | |
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Crafting a Rock | |
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Ailsa Craig: Another Scottish connection | |
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How rocks are made | |
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Sizing Up Your Stone | |
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The striking band | |
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The running surface | |
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How a Rock Curls | |
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As Unique as a Snowflake (Just Heavier) | |
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How Rocks Get Fixed | |
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Fixing the striking band | |
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Fixing the running surface | |
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The Rink | |
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The Team as a Whole | |
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The Lead | |
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Throwing stones | |
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Sweeping | |
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The Second | |
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Throwing stones | |
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Sweeping | |
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The Front End: Working Together | |
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The Third | |
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Throwing stones | |
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Holding the broom | |
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Keeping score | |
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Tossing the coin | |
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The Skip | |
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Throwing stones | |
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Understanding strategy | |
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Reading the ice | |
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Forming the Team | |
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Putting It All Together | |
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Hogs and Hacks: Understanding the Playing Field | |
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The Game | |
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The Sheet | |
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The House | |
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The Lines | |
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The Hacks | |
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The Rules | |
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The Basic Rules | |
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Common Infractions | |
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Touched stone | |
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Moved stationary stone | |
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Rules Regarding Sweeping | |
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When and where you sweep | |
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How you sweep | |
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Measuring Stones | |
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The Free Guard Zone | |
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Sizing Up the Scoreboard | |
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The score after the first end | |
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The score after the second end | |
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The score after all eight ends | |
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Etiquette | |
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Hurry Hard! Playing the Game | |
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The Delivery | |
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Setting Up | |
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Feet first: Stepping into the hack | |
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Keep your balance: Using your broom | |
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Hold onto your stones | |
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Delivering the Rock | |
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Pressing ahead | |
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The backswing | |
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The forward swing | |
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The slide | |
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Sliding at the broom | |
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The release | |
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The Shots | |
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What Makes a Good Shot | |
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Watching your weight | |
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Staying in line | |
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Waiting for the signal | |
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The Draw | |
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Throwing it | |
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Getting good at it | |
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Here a draw, there a draw | |
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The Takeout | |
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Throwing it | |
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Getting good at it | |
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The Guard | |
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The Freeze | |
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The Split | |
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The Run-back | |
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The Raise | |
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Sweeping | |
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How to Sweep | |
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Slip-sliding away | |
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Holding the broom | |
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Brushing the stone | |
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Putting it all together | |
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Where to Sweep | |
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Stay in line! | |
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You're not sweeping alone, you know | |
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Why You Sweep | |
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Special sweeping circumstances | |
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Don't forget your stopwatch | |
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Stepping onto the Ice | |
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Before First Rock Is Thrown | |
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Warming Up | |
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Legs | |
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Upper body | |
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Heading Out to the Sheet | |
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Which sheet? | |
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Practice slides | |
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Shaking Hands | |
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The Coin Toss | |
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Choosing your rocks | |
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Setting up courtesy stones | |
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Let the Game Begin | |
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That's quite a pace! | |
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The end of the end | |
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The beginning of the next end | |
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Accidents Will Happen | |
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Throwing the wrong color | |
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Playing out of order | |
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Arriving late | |
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Having an injured teammate | |
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It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over | |
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Before You Call It a Day | |
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Getting a Game | |
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Signing Up | |
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Drawing Conclusions - Make Sure You Know When You're Playing | |
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Types of Games | |
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Club games | |
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Competitive games | |
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Playdowns | |
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Bonspiels and other fun stuff | |
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Getting Better | |
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Strategy | |
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Curling Strategy in Theory | |
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Last Rock | |
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With last rock | |
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Without last rock | |
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Curling Strategy in Practice | |
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Game Situations | |
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When you're behind | |
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When you're ahead | |
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Not scoring | |
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Strategic Thinking | |
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Get inside your opposition's head | |
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Play to your strengths | |
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Practicing | |
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Why You Need to Practice | |
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Your Basic Routine | |
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Training Alone | |
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Practicing your slide | |
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Practicing shots | |
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Finishing up | |
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Training with Your Team | |
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Work in pairs | |
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Work as a team | |
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Sweeping | |
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Finishing up | |
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Drills | |
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Adding an Element of Fun | |
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The Howard Game | |
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The Short Game | |
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Speed Play | |
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Raises | |
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Dryland Training | |
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At the gym | |
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Your weekly workout | |
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Eating right | |
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Behind the Glass | |
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Kids and Curling | |
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Little Rocks | |
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Juniors | |
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Bantams | |
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Teaching and Coaching Juniors | |
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Giving Lessons to Beginners | |
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How long? | |
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Fun takes planning | |
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Fun, fun, fundamentals | |
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Good teacher, bad teacher | |
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Send Me In, Coach | |
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Singing from the same song book | |
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Head games | |
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At practice | |
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During the game | |
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Knowing the rules | |
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A Few Final Words of Advice | |
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The curling mom or dad | |
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Coaching your own | |
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Legal challenges | |
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Be careful out there | |
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More than a coach | |
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Coaching | |
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The Role of the Coach | |
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Getting a Team | |
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Training | |
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Experience | |
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Commitment | |
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The Head Coach | |
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Putting everybody on the same page | |
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Setting up the season | |
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Game Preparation | |
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Before the game | |
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Off the ice | |
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On the ice | |
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During the game | |
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Mental Preparation | |
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I don't need a shrink | |
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Mind games that work | |
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Chewing on Rocks | |
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The Numbers Don't Lie | |
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Fun and Furor: Being a Fan | |
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Watching a Game at Your Club | |
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Know why you're there | |
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Know when to be there | |
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Know what you're watching for | |
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Organizers: Make it a big draw | |
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Watching a Game on Television | |
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Know what you're watching for | |
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Games worth watching | |
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Know who's in the booth | |
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Watching a Championship Game | |
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Who needs a pair? | |
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Rah, rah, sis boom bah | |
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Wet your whistle | |
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That volunteer spirit | |
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A World of Championships | |
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The Brier | |
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What is it? | |
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Where is it held? | |
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Who runs it? | |
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The format | |
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The spoils | |
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The road to the Brier | |
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More than a curling event | |
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The Tournament of Hearts | |
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The spoils | |
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The event | |
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A big television draw | |
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The same, but different | |
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The Canadian Junior Championships | |
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The format | |
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Boys will be boys | |
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A girls' thing | |
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The World Curling Championships | |
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The format | |
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The history | |
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The world on television | |
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The World Junior Championships | |
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The format | |
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The history | |
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You're holding it where? | |
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The Olympics | |
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The format | |
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The history | |
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The champions | |
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The Part of Tens | |
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Ten Top-Notch Curling Skips | |
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Randy Ferbey | |
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Elisabet Gustafson | |
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Russ Howard | |
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Colleen Jones | |
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Debbie McCormick | |
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Hammy McMillan | |
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Ernie Richardson | |
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Sandra Schmirler | |
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Bud Somerville | |
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Pal Trulsen | |
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Ten Memorable Curling Shots | |
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Al Hackner's Double Takeout | |
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Mark Nichol's Double Raise Takeout | |
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Guy Hemmings' Draw to the Button | |
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Jennifer Jones's Hit and Roll | |
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Eugene Hritzuk's Last-Shot Hog | |
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Hammy McMillan's Round-the-House Triple | |
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Debbie McCormick's Double Takeout | |
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Sandra Schmirler's Hit and Roll | |
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Billy Walsh's Extra-End Winner | |
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Ed Werenich's Triple Takeout | |
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Ten Tremendous Curling Games | |
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Ferbey-Dacey | |
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Gushue-Uusipaavalniemi | |
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Hackner-Ryan | |
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Howard-Sparkes | |
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Howard-Sparkes...Again | |
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Norberg-McCormick | |
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Richardson-Baird | |
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Schmirler-Blach-Lavrsen | |
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Trulsen-Martin | |
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Werenich-Darte | |
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Ten Terrific Curling Information Sources | |
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The Curling News | |
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Curling.com | |
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Curlingzone.com | |
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CurlTV | |
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In the Hack.com | |
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The Ontario Curling Report | |
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The Rulebook | |
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Sweep | |
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TSN (The Sports Network) | |
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USACurl.com | |
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Glossary | |
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Index | |