The Plight of Arena Curlers

U.S. Curling News magazine has a new column (“Zamboni Trax”) dedicated to arena curling. As you know, the South Shore Curling Club (among almost half of the curling clubs in the U.S.) is an arena club and “enjoys” the challenges that go with it:

Zamboni tracks, fall-offs, fall-ins, slopes, negative ice and a variety of other descriptors are mumbled around the nation each week when arena curlers gather to “figure out” the ice…

 

Arena ice is fickle. It twists, it turns, it acts weird, then it seems fine (for a while), until it does something really dark to your shot. You’re ready to kill it. Or laugh at it.

Read “The Plight of Arena Curlers” by Brad Whitlock on USA Curling’s website to learn what we arena clubs go through to curl (or commiserate if you’re one of us).