| GLOSSARY cont.  Third
– The Vice Skip
The third player on a team that delivers the rocks number 5&6 in
each end. The third may or may not act as vice- skip holding the brush for the skip but
may assist in team strategy.
TICK
The movement of an object rock only a few inches or few feet such that
it remains in play but out of the way and ideally, a shooter will refract/deflect out of
the way or out of play.
 TOO KEEN ICE
Generally ice with a friction factor that allows the shooter to
traverse hogline to hogline in 14-1/2 seconds or more.
 TURNED IN
A delivery release sequence fault that causes the rock to traverse
"inside’ the brush line of sight.
 TWISTED OUT FOOT
A type of delivery pictured/outlined in the CCA "Discover
Curling," 1991 edition, manual that if used by a curler over a long period of time
has a high probability of causing serious knee injury.
 UPRIGHT DELIVERY
A rock throwing sequence in which the body trunk is in an upright
position (at some positive angle with the sliding leg – thigh) and the knee and foot
are not radically twisted out of a straight line parallel with the centerline during the
delivery slide.
 VISUALIZATION
The mental picturing of a prospective scenario of rock motion.
 WEIGHT
The momentum imparted to a curling stone in the delivery sequence.
 Wick
The refraction/rebound of one moving rock that has rebounded at a small
angle due to striking only a small portion of a stationary object rock.
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