Curling News: the Dykes Bonspiel

[dankohner1]

What a bitch at 3:35 she is not even paying attention to the interview she is giving.

[kris8144]

wow what a bitch you can tell she really does not give a shit and that pisses me off..

[GBJPhotoWorks]

DUDE! Calm down! She's a news reporter, doing a job. She probably never heard of curling until the day before she was sent to capture the video she was working on. She turns away from the guy speaking, not because she doesn't care, but because she is adjusting the picture being captured by her camera, and apparently is working without a cameraman. Furthermore, she's not on camera. She's on this YouTuber's camera, but not her own. She's a pro, doing the job she's being paid to do.

[patriklundqvist]

Löjligt

[wackywhitty]

u do need fricking skills god damn it i can't stand ppl who judge curling. Its fucking amazing

[FOB111008]

i play it i liked it for a while but i was just mediocre

[daroo05]

did i hear this reporter say.... "the skip throws the hammer"? omg... do some research

[GBJPhotoWorks]

oh well... I was thinking, "the skip throws the hammer" isn't necessarily an incorrect phrase... That is, until you hear it in the context used here. He clearly misunderstood someone's explanation of the term "hammer".

[lakeduborne]

Curling is a great sport and a very social sport. Kids play there is mens' competition, womans' competition and mixed curling. It is one of the oldest sports played in the US. In the Detroit area it dates back to 1845 and is going strong. The club is located in Ferndale, Michigan

[GBJPhotoWorks]

Otherwise, I can't help but feel a bit of pride. My father helped found the Potomac Curling Club, the year I was born. The National Capital Curling Center was the realization of a very long dream, which finally came true the year I turned 40. The video contains high praise for the NCCC's ice and the Potomac Curling Club website is on the computer screen behind the Third Eye News talking head. Nice.

[kris8144]

dude in all honesty and im sorry that you haven't realized this but there clearly shutting down our sport and really couldn't give any shits for the curling club your family helped to build, this report is completely ridiculous and totally puts out curling as a waste of time.. it makes me sick thinking people would go to such lengths to put down a popular past time

[GBJPhotoWorks]

See? The only way to make their own lack of awareness acceptable to themselves is to make jokes and dismiss the subject as outlandish or ludicrous. Furthermore... I never said they cared about the club my family helped build, I said that I was proud of what I was seeing, and considering that, in the years since this facility was built we have now hosted more than one national-level competition, I am STILL proud,

[GBJPhotoWorks]

So, dude, you might want to work on toughening up your youthful over-sensitivity to what others think and say about curling. There are much more important things in this world to get cranked up about. I mean look... you just ranted at me, a curler, about a video that's been posted here for over three years, and my response that's been here for two. Curling has made huge gains in public awareness and enrollment here in the US, since the 2002 Winter Olympics, with a big boost from the '06 games.

[GBJPhotoWorks]

I have no reason to expect that this trend will not continue or that silly, clueless (but otherwise well-intended), little, "look what I discovered!"-type news reports about curling will appear leass and less frequently.

[kris8144]

well i certainly hope your right, and you can see why i would be ticked off about this sort of thing, its our sport it what we enjoy to do, theres really no room for people who first of all havent tryed our game to draw conclusions and eventually become the beginning of harmful stereotypes, and its not like i make this comment lightly, there has been many times in the past the media has made things worse then they seem to be and i get that sense with this video in multiple instances, it still

[kris8144]

seems like an insult to the sport

[GBJPhotoWorks]

This is a pretty nice curling piece and well done. The only significant omission was that nowhere did it mention the basic, primary premise of the Dykes Bonspiel, which is that all teams are comprised of players of relatively limited experience. I think the restriction is two-years or less.