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Learn The New -- Easy and Accurate -- Genuflect Delivery Technique
Chapter 1 TS 1.5 cont.:
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16. Why "brush the handle?"
    Because, the handle is 5" and centered over the rock bolt center of rotation precisely above the 5" running surface on the bottom of the rock. So naturally you would only swish your brush back and forth the 5".
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    Why are the new wide and thick brush heads less effective as a smaller brush when not applied to the ice properly? Why brush the rock plus a few extra inches of rink while wasting valuable energy that should be used to brush/crush the three types of ice crystals that grow in the ice temperature range of 18-31 degrees F?
17. ROCK MECHANICS. Why rocks do not act exactly like pool balls?
18. Why can the CCA taught "grip" lead to the thrown out elbow syndrome causing the curler to miss the brush. Only two curlers in the 1997 and 1998 Brier and the 1997 and 1998 Worlds use the precise CCA grip and rock release method. Are all the pros doing something wrong that the CCA knows about and they don't?
    Actually, the CCA and the pros teach and use the WRONG delivery system!!!!
19. Why did Mike Harris, a consistently high level curler and great ambassador and champion for Canada, not attain his goal of good curling during the Olympic finals? And it was not psychological?
20. Why is it critical to keep your shoulders level on delivery?
21. Why is it critical to rotate the rock about its center of inertia, rock bolt? Why aren't rock handles redesigned to have a small circular ridge/ bump on the handle at the rock bolt center to indicate to the shooter where to precisely place his hand over the rock bolt/center of rotation?
22. How can you learn to time yourself to rock release from backline to hogline within 0.25 seconds (resulting in rock travel within approximately 8-12 feet of overall rock travel) - in your head? Personally, I can time myself to 0.1 second with consistent weekly practice

 23. How and why you should use your hack foot TOE as a RUDDER and BRAKE?
24. How and why you should use your hack foot merely as a fulcrum to fall from and not use it for excessive "leg drive?" You use the slider leg drive to gain body momentum which translates into rock momentum. Trunk mass x acceleration = force. The body throws the rock AND not the arm!
25. How can you learn to throw, uniformly, two rocks at a time to; match rocks and study brushing techniques and brushes?
26. Why do many professionals vary the number of rotations from 1-1/4 to 2-1/2 revs. during draw weight release and then wonder why there is more or less curl? Sweepers must analyze rotations as well as rock velocity when communicating with the skip.
27. Why does rock vibration contribute to make the ice on ice friction level of a rock on pebbled curling ice as low as steel ball bearings on steel races?

There is still one more question my Aussie friend from "down under" has brought up as to why he has to put Velcro on their rocks to keep them from flying off the ice into space?
After studying the 200+ major variables the curling gods have dumped on us, I am willing to accept his Velcro story at face value because every time I think I have a plausible solution to a curling problem, Mother Nature slaps me with another!
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