Delivery
How many rotations?
Just how many times should a curling stone rotate as it moves down the ice? Ideally, during a delivery a stone travels – initially – down the line of delivery towards the target, with a rotation applied by the wrist just prior to the release. On a draw shot, when the stone reaches the other end of the sheet, both its forward travel and its rotation cease simultaneously. In the most recent OCA Blue Challenge booklet for junior curlers, Challenge #2 (Consistent rotations) calls for: The curler is to deliver 6 draw stones with 2 to 4 rotations. Little Rock curlers may have 2 to 5 rotations. While at the Team Glenn Howard fantasy camp in early October I asked lead Craig Savill about his experience with stone rotations. Craig felt that fewer than two rotations was inadequate, particularly on curling club ice where there may be sufficient frost on the ice surface to cause the stone to lose its