WINTER SPORT CALLED CURLING

There is a bit of confusion over who invented the sport of curling and where.

The winter-sport called curling was first mention in 1838 and the first curling .club was established in Edinburgh. Scottish people claim that they invented the sport. However, it was discover that the game was around much longer. In a painting by the Flemish master Pieter Bruegel named 'Hunters in the Snow' in 1565, it shows a curling match was going on in the background.

Apparently the curling sport was in existence since the 16th century in Scotland. A curling stone was discovered in a pond with the description of 1511, when the pond was drained in Dunblane, Scotland. Kilsyth Curling Club was the first club in the world establish in 1716 and it still exists today. There is also the old purpose-built curling pond at Colzium.

CURLING MATCH AT EGLINGTON CASTLE, AYRHSIRE, SCOTLAND 1860

OLD-STYLE CURLING STONE

CURLING STONE OR ROCK - MADE OF GRANITE

The word curling first appeared in a poem by Henry Adamson in 1820 in Perth.

Curling supplies

To begin with there were simply flat-bottom rocks from the river and you had no control over it.

A record exists in Darvel, East Ayrshire, that the weavers used their heavy stone weights from the beams. They fitted a detachable brass handle. The wife kept it on the mantelpiece and polished it.

Outdoor curling game was played between the 16th and 19th century. The home of the World Curling Federation is in Perth, Scotland. The Game was taken to Canada by Scottish immigrants. The Royal Montreal Curling Club established in 1807 and is the oldest and still active in North America.

From the 1830 the game was introduced to the USA and it spread to Switzerland and Sweden by the end of the 19th century. Nowadays, it is played in Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, China and Korea.

The International Curling Federation is holding an annual World Championship but it is won mostly by Canada.

The so-called 'bowl' is a round stone with a curved handle. The rink is 42m long and the curlers skim it along on ice. The aim is to get the bowl as closed or closed to the target (house) which consists of a set of circle on the ice.

Curling rules

The team consists of four players and a point is scored when one of their stones ends up closest to the house's centre (tee). They will also score another point for their stone when it is nearer the tee than their opponents' best try.

This curling game has also the name of 'roaring game' because when stone is skidding along on the ice you can hear a rumbling. When you watch a curling game you can see them frantically sweeping in front of the bowl. The reason for that is to ensure the surface is smooth to enable the bowl to get as closed as possible to the tee.

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