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THE CURLING BOOK FREE. Mouse wayyyyy down,
 but you will miss my anecdotes-- And your identity

On Identity:

"Who you are is what you are, 
an in divisive soul, with imaginative essence, 
uniquely identified within an ethical society 
and to be fully determined when time is no more
 for one or for all." jkr
"...and the last hour steals on unperceived."  Samuel Johnson

Am I missing reality? jkr

On Nature:

"The wonders of nature's sounds; 
the reflective, 
is it here or there, 
the warning hum of a bee, 
the forlorn sound of the loon,
destined waves washing ashore, 
an amorous bull moose grunting for a mate;
 Each sound only virtually duplicated when an articulate
plays the Stradivarius violin!" jkr

Natures Sounds in total

Horticulturist -- Me?

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."....anonymous

"Bias refracts pristine rays of light from its natural source of illumination 
shunting elucidation into a path destined for certain absurdity." jkr
Horticulturist me?

On Being Power Hungry:

"A person’s virtue has meaningless minute measure
 when compared to his vices." jkr 
...Ask Bill Clinton

"An unscrupulous desire for power rather than the protection of virtue 
arises from the self-recognition of one’s/her inferiority 
resulting in a blurred astigmatism to the vices of a mate, of one’s self, and promotes endearing attraction to associates with the same corruptions." jkr 
... Ask Hillary Clinton.

"The glass is half full and not half empty."...anonymous
"The end is always a beginning." jkr

"Easily embarrassed about something–everything? 
Yup, me too! I used to be all the time. 
Self-confidence helps, but the problem still persists. 
Why? The more confident you get, 
the more you don’t want to disappoint -- 
yourself." jkr

ON Negativism:

And here we thought 'Dirty Harry', Clint Eastwood, 
was protecting us all these years 
from the bad guys with his 357 magnum (38 caliber), 
the biggest caliber production pistol in the world, 
and now as a remembrance to Carlton Hesston, Mosses, 
ex-NRA Pres., Smith and Wesson Co.
 is manufacturing a 500 magnum and selling it on the "street."
You want to know the sad truth? 
The 50 caliber magnum with metal piercing bullet
 is almost un-stoppable except in death 
to an officer or bystander and for what?
Profit--money for Smith & Wesson Arms Co.
 Surely the U.S. Congress must love 
Smith & Wesson's profit motive and Carlton Hesston. For what? 
MONEY?

Win or Win Situations:

 When I curl; I win when I lose and I win when I win! ...Say what? jkr
Counterpoint: 
English translation from Greek via. Latin by Francis...
"Death, or a joyful conquest, ends the fight."
Taken from libello: Horace, Epistles,II

More On, ‘Say what?’

"If one could accurately perceive, with perfection of acuity, 
that which is visually perceivable; then, 
this purged purity of heart would elevate 
the heaviest of souls to the heavens" jkr....'Say what'

Being an aspiring writer; I thought one should emulate
 Ottawa's politicians, in which case, less is communicated with more words.

.On Philosophy:

"Pursuing life as if you are on a treasure hunt 
may reward you with gold, 
but sorely, not life." jkr  Ask Martha Stewart.

"If the Genie in the lamp would grant you but one wish? 
What would you ask for?
Me? ‘Please, Genie, let me learn from my every mistake?’" jkr

On the disenfranchised -----including animals:
I never gave a thought because I always "had it all."

Having self-confidence:

"When you no longer have a need to exploit, for self-gratification, 
every situation and, particularly, every person." jkr
"Performing the mundane with dedication often produces the remarkable." (Mothers have known that from inception.) jkr

Prime Minister Jean Chretien, 
"O Lord, I have but one life to give for my country 
so I recommend Paul Martin.  
P.S.  Can you take him in the next few days?" jkr

On Surprises:

You get the "PG" notice and the words,
 "Be advised this show represents nudity and course language," 
when you are about to watch, 
"It's A Wonderful Life," a Christmas show, (1947) James Stewart.

On Logic:

"There are many who, with open mind, 
can comprehend what ‘others’ have discovered. 
Unfortunately, creativity has always been limited
 by there being few ‘others’ capable of discovery." 
Paraphrased: "There are many who can follow a road-map 
yet few who can make one. "jkr  

"Logic is as logic does: 
Three people attempt to forge a horseshoe of steel; 
one a small person, one a big muscular person, 
and one a smart person. Which person would heat the metal first?" jkr

On Horse Sense:

"The easiest way to solve a problem is to start with the answer." jkr

"If one could be both: "wise as a fool" and "dumb like a fox."  jkr 
"The coordinated analysis of a problem is usually 
more constructive than merely seeking an answer."
"Looking for and finding answers usually leads to finding more problems."

When is "less" better than "more?" (Other than in golf)
Is a horse more endowed than a centipede?

Do you think Aristotle or Einstein awoke one morning and thought to themselves? 
"Today, I will attempt to make sense of creation's unsettling reality." jkr

On Determination:

"Life was determined when you made that first squeal, 
and is equally determinate when you make the last gasp." jkr

A skilled teacher may not always offer an explicit answer 
to a student's question but, maybe, a more enlightening, "huh?"
"He has learned to no purpose, 
that is not able to teach;..."  Samuel Johnson
I would add; 
"He that learns in a society 
should give back, by way of teaching, 
to that society twelve fold what has been gained 
from learned self-enlightenment." jkr

On Living:

"Life is what you make of it; But, 'Oh, how the mistakes hurt.'" JKR

"A differential equation we will solve today, 
but a psychological problem? Hopefully, in a lifetime." jkr

"Now, I write what I write because I want to write, 
but when I was a student, I had to be coerced to write." jkr

On Curling:

"T’wether ye be god, Pluto, or squire, Plato, 
wi the litt’lst of practice can ye toss 
the wee Ailsa Craig forty poundre down the ice 
like a thunderbolt to the wee spot yonder
 on frowzen moor." jkr
Written in my own gibberish Gaelic accent.

                               English word                                     Gaelic word from online Gaelic dictionary
                              granite forty poundre sic                    pulag, round stone
                              throw                                                    siar, throw obliquely
                              down                                                     leag, throw down, knock down
                              thunderbolt                                           dealan, lightning

     Curling, the sport for all:

The several curling commentators wonder why, with their many recurrent expletives, why Colleen Jones hits her out-turns better than in-turns. It is as Samuel Johnson has written; "...but if little violations are allowed, every violation will in time be thought little."
Athletic kinesiology examines these "little violations" of movement and in Colleen's case---she does not "throw-out" the out-turn when applying rock rotation because it is initiated with the thumb push about the rock's center of rotation--without twisting the wrist! The delivery hand/arm remain straight on the brush target during release (Colleen's rightee delivery).

In the same Samuel Johnson's "little violations" vane and the way most wrongly taught curlers inappropriately grip the rock handle in the "old wrong lift method," she "throws-out" the in-turn with the 4 fingers applying turn because "the tight grip" automatically causes a wrist and arm rotation causing rock delivery misalignment.

Now, wasn't that fault easy to analyze? And yet, Colleen and most other curlers will carry this fault to the grave.
 For it was said: "Men must be taught as if you taught them not; And things unknown propos'd (sic) as things forgot." --Alexander Pope

I wonder if Messrs. Pope and  Johnson were coaches?---
As they were and always will be in my mind's eye
 of very discriminating recognition, certainly, teachers! jkr
A repose: 
 "I thought-ed  myself smart until I read Samuel Johnson 
and now I think-ed me to be but a kindergarten student with incontinence of the bladder
 and yet shy to raise my hand to attract the teacher's attention. 
And not help-ed by self recognition of a sorry lack of writing competence, 
but one who is about to wet his pants whilst tears of joy stream down my jowls 
having been coincident to his works, and yet unknown to him for now 
except in my here and now-for a short time while I alone encounter 
with his internet genius on-line, belatedly digitally recorded, 
works of a brilliant inquisitive mind." JKR
If just one person would say, 
"Aw, what a smart guy are you to write such words,"
 I would, momentarily, envision myself in the same literary heaven as 
Samuel Johnson 1709 -- 1784.
And then I would walk barefoot to the local pub on a cold Canadian nite!



"When one attempts to draw water from the well of knowledge, he will be, too often, thwarted by the thick ice layer of biased opinion." jkr

"In the pursuit of truth and ultimate knowledge, the object of a question may not be to seek an answer, but simply to generate a better question." jkr 
"An astute interviewer is not interested in the evident, but more so, the subtle." jkr 


SARS on curling rock handles? Maybe not "the" SARS virus, but many others and bacteria as well. All can "live" hours to 170 days+ at 3 degrees C on curling rock handles. Progressive clubs should provide a bactericide with the normal tissue supply to clean rock handles before a game to protect the 1,000,000 curlers who transmit viruses one to the other and their 3,000,000 family members at home.
AND, do not shake hands before and after a game--Respectfully bow like the Oriental sign of respect.

"Many times, when executing a curling strategy, what you do not do is more important than what you do do."

"The most important single act in becoming an excellent curler is hitting the target broom, 80%+, and wearing clean underwear when traveling to the curling rink in the event of an accident."
The height of ones creativity and/or skill improvement is limited only by erroneous pre-learned bias.

"Hydroplaning rocks"??? Really. How ignorant is this new lady commentator for the TSN/CBC , Gauthier?, (sp) at the WORLDS about curling technology!! There is much wrong technical information embedded in people's minds confusing actual  physics with the mythology of curling  so we don't need commentators to add to falsely 'learned' information.
On several occasions the Swedish men playing the Ferbey team on Thursday, AM, stopped curl entirely by brushing the slow side of the rock and she said "the handle died causing the rock to hydroplane and over curl." In actual fact, these brushers stopped handle rotation by short brushing one half the rock's running surface, (2-1/2"). They are using the slow side brushing technique and actually stopped curl. If they new everything about "slow side" brushing, they would be able to "back up" the rock by up to 3". This is the beginning of brushing to control rock travel  in a major curling event. The Junior World ladies from Saskatchewan performed rock control brushing to a small degree, enough to help win them the Junior Worlds.
It is clear the regular TSN sports commentator, Vic Rauter, knows more about curling than the "embedded" experts. Where is Marilyn Bodogh, Mike Harris or Ed Lukowich? These commentators talk about facts they know leaving speculation to the philosophers. Ed doesn't know anything about brushing to control rock travel or he would teach the Yanks to brush effectively. The YANKS men arm boost almost every shot having no line or draw control and hence lose every game anyway.

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"Performing the mundane with dedication often produces the remarkable." (Mothers have known that from inception.) jkr

 
No one can outsmart the natural force of nature, so why not embrace it with an understanding of the physics governing curling included in the next 100+ URL pages.

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Learn to curl with minimum effort and maximum efficiency the easy way with new technology as explained in the next 120 pages!
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Joan McCusker, world's second best brusher to stop rock curl, next to me; that is. 
She sweeps the slow side of the rock (knowingly or unknowingly) with high cycles with brush head precisely parallel to the centerline. Pressure is not as critical as cycles and WHERE you brush and with what type brush head, so women CAN brush as good as men. If women learn the genuflect two handed delivery, they can beat men at their own game.
I could teach Joan to increase curl with brushing by brushing the fast side of the rock and with the VERTICAL no strain brushing technique!! She needs only a brush shaft that is 4' 6" in length. Taller people need longer brush handles. I use a handle length of 5'-0" to facilitate the
 NO-STRAIN rock control vertical stance brushing technique.

 Joan uses a little of the new available technology. Men "know too much" to learn new ideas so will remain far behind the ladies. 
I said women will beat the men in this millenium!!! Give me 3 Joan McCusters and I will beat any men's team in the world if I teach her to push the rock for delivery with 2 hands and release left or right handed and brush with technology...

"As a backyard philosopher, I can only give to intelligent beings the cognizance of the weapon to slew all life's dragons and that is the sword of creative thought."
Remember as you experience your one life's adventure,  
"Who you are is no more or less than who you think you are." jkr
And fate, whether good or bad, as envisioned by self

"You may reach the mountain's peak by an arduous and dangerous climb or simply fly to the summit in a helicopter."

Aristotle wrote,"...man is an imitative being." 
Most people are, in fact, followers and never get out
 of the beaten track of similitude. This is why 99% of curlers simply 
follow the lead of what they seen on TV 
or are taught by coaches with little or no assessment
into the delivery technique that is easiest to learn (only one hour for someone who has never pushed a curling rock)
and most accurate in the game of curling and that delivery technique is the Genuflect delivery.

"Success is directly proportional to the ability to adapt readily to new ideas."
"Our current learning/teaching environment too often teaches us to accept the norm."
"To be considered a "character," at the very least, recognizes your physical presence." jkr

"I want to be the best but don't know where to start?"
"Learning is inhibited when a person doesn’t know enough 
about the applicable problem to ask relevant questions."
" All expended effort toward attaining superior success in a sport 
is futile unless you are utilizing the latest technology." jkr
 

No work/pain--vertical efficient brushing.

Brushing to stop curl and increase curl

How to properly clean a rock.

A thought for today:

"The extraordinary is most often accomplished by the ordinary."
"The human psyche is as fragile as a snow flake--- above the freezing point." JKR

 "Inspiration encourages accomplishment.
Accomplishment reinforces inspiration  ad-infinitum." JKR 

Success in any endeavor, barring rank luck, involves itself with the pursuit of advanced knowledge. JKR

"If you don't want to appear stupid, do what I say and not what I do." jkr

"Bullying; too often, originates from having been bullied." jkr

"To go where no man has gone before, probably means you have been driving while intoxicated." jkr

"Losing a sports event does not invalidate success." JKR

"To go, in creative thought, were no one has gone before will make you appear eccentric."
"The effort expended to reach a goal is, in itself, an achievement." JKR

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There is more to the game of "Ice Curling" than throwing granite rocks on frozen water?
Tom Hanks said, "I have made fire."
Create your own "fire" my friends! Read on.


More?
  Man or Woman, have you found your Chelan?

click on: Ladies curl lousy at early season skins - Improve your game by analyzing faults.

Knee-slider for 10 bucks at Wal-Mart
What causes pebble to wear out too soon

Just for holiday fun: Hound dog rules the woodlot, just fun or a metaphor about life itself?

WHY ROCKS CURL? The Curling Doctor takes on Dr. M.S., UNBC, Discovery Channel, CBC, "Quirks and Quarks," CCN and The Canadian Journal of Physics: Visit SHAM REVEALED  NEW AUG.,2000 click on: TIRE rock friction study and
 Quirks and Quarks, CBC Radio, miss-information revealed .

NEW UPDATE Dec.1, 2001
Brushing Technique secrets now answered.
Dec.2, 2000 click on: Brushing to warm the ice study? Increase curl? Decrease curl? Slow the rock? Extend rock travel? 
The COLD brush? The HOT brush?  The brush FABRIC?
When you hear the brush "whine" sound, is the hard nylon brush shaving/damaging pebble tops??? Was early pebble loss a problem before the nylon brush was introduced? Please E-mail me with your experience/ideas on any subject?     
     Dec. 20, 2000: Nylon brushes wear out pebble? E-mail response says, "YES!" My test results soon.

Nov., 2000 update: click on: Hacks are designed wrong and installed wrong.

The first edition of  "Curling 2000" book is sold out. The second edition is on hold. The entire book is now on  the web free below.