Monday 2 December 2013 45 min Inquiry

Indoor Curling has been known to many people around the world but mostly to the Scottish people. In 1511 Scotland created a sport called curling where you try to get a stone into a ring but there has been a huge difference since then to now.  Later down the track more people started to recognize this unique sport and thats when it really got popular. In the 19th Century the United States got hooked in and is now a olympic sport.

The most popular type of curling is indoor curling where you use a sheet. A sheet is 45.72m and has lots of different points on it, the goal of the game is to push a granite into the middle of the house.

The equipment that you need to play indoor curling are curling shoes, mops, pants, gloves and jackets. If you don't have a local curling rink you can go to a lake where the ice has formed, but make sure the ice is thick! The most needed equipment is a Granite and each one weighs around 20 kgs.

The rules of the game are 2 people hold a mop and one person hold the granite. The job for the people with the mops are to sweep the ice in front of the granite and to reduce friction. The person with the granite has to gently slide the granite into the house and try to get the closest.

Fact 1: When curling was created it was played on top of a frozen lake.
Fact 2: The NZ team won their first game in 1998.