Scottish Curling Championships: 2008

It’s easy to forget what an abstract activity sport is. Why, exactly, are people doing this or that thing? Why are they kicking that? Jumping that? Walking that particular way? But we don’t notice the oddness because we see it all the time. And then something like curling comes along and we’re confronted with the strangeness again. So we gaze and question and wonder, and then, in the case of curling, we’re drawn in by the beauty, the physics, the geometry, the shouting and the human endeavour. I bet you watch it all. Just in case you’re not completely au fait with the rules there’s a great site here that’ll explains everything, with animated examples.