Rec Sports Fads of the New Millenium.

[ötzi]

Geez you'd think that would have been a hit, that's prime drinking time and curling and drinking are made for each other.

[The AD]

Geez you'd think that would have been a hit, that's prime drinking time and curling and drinking are made for each other.

Yeah, but it's typically not like bowling where you can do both simultaneously. Most people need to get their drinking started before midnight.

[ötzi]

Au contraire mon frere, the only thing in curling you can't do while drinking is sweep, and that's like maybe 5% of the time. Ask a Canadian, they'll set you straight.

[XXX-er]

Au contraire mon frere, the only thing in curling you can't do while drinking is sweep, and that's like maybe 5% of the time. Ask a Canadian, they'll set you straight.

I am loathe to admit I have never curled but i am from the wet coast so i get a pass

Curling is best played on the Canadian praire at -40 using horse turds for the rocks

it is the great Canadian game

not sport

[The AD]

Au contraire mon frere, the only thing in curling you can't do while drinking is sweep, and that's like maybe 5% of the time. Ask a Canadian, they'll set you straight.

I wouldn't have thought most curling rinks allow drinking alcohol while on the ice, but maybe I'm wrong. I'll defer to the resident Canucks. I thought the usual tradition was heading to the lounge after the game where the winning team buys.

[m2711c]

curling still be going strong in the upstates… got their own fancy rink and everything. no need to be dukin’ it out wit figure skating chicks and the hockey boys for prime ice time.


https://sites.google.com/uticacurlin...icacurlingclub








fact.

[snowaddict91]

Right before COVID a group of us were going to do a "learn to curl" class at the Olympic Oval. Sounded like a fun way to get drunk on the ice.

[ötzi]

curling still be going strong in the upstates… got their own fancy rink and everything. no need to be dukin’ it out wit figure skating chicks and the hockey boys for prime ice time.


https://sites.google.com/uticacurlin...icacurlingclub








fact.

They have "Utica Club" right in the name. Coincidence? I think not.

[Peruvian]

Sounded like a fun way to get drunk on the ice.

What could go wrong?

[skinipenem]

Never heard of Ultimate frisbee till I moved to CO in the mid nineties. It seemed to be a fringe sport. I once saw a match taking place in Boulder on a field next to the skate park. Funny thing was, there was a LARP battle also taking place on the other half of the same field. Made for some pretty good people watching. Excellent metal vert ramp at the skate park too. But it had just been painted blue and every time you crashed you got covered in blue paint.

My understanding:

LARP equivalent to ultimate frisbee.

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[Not DJSapp]

But the olympics will always be problematic unless ultimate drops one of its core principles, which is self-refereeing. At the highest levels they do have "observers" to resolve disputes, but no true refs. In the pro leagues, which are not sanctioned by the governing body, there are refs and other changes to make it more spectator friendly (including changing the actual dimensions of the field). Until the governing body buys into referees, I am not sure it works in the olympics. But buying into referees is to some people/many people, too big a sacrifice.

The Olympics are all about ref controversies. Fucking disc hippies don't get that.

[The AD]

The Olympics are all about ref controversies. Fucking disc hippies don't get that.

Right, if the Russian ref can't be paid off to make a bad call, what's the point in even having the Olympics?

[dunfree]

I wouldn't have thought most curling rinks allow drinking alcohol while on the ice, but maybe I'm wrong. I'll defer to the resident Canucks. I thought the usual tradition was heading to the lounge after the game where the winning team buys.

Liquor laws are probably the only reason the curling clubs i know of don’t allow drinking on the ice

[SumJongGuy]

The Olympics are all about ref controversies. Fucking disc hippies don't get that.

They did skateboarding.. albeit to mixed reactions from the community.

[Woodsy]

Maybe this was already covered, but back around maybe 2005 or so there was a surge in off-road scooters, like Razrs with bigger knobby tires, a little bit of suspension, and a handbrake. Solitude used to rent them, you'd take them up on the chair and use the MTB trails to come down. Holy shit those things were dangerous. Complete insanity. Good riddance if they went away. They went away, right?

Solitude's new owners just had better Risk managent and legal teams

[XXX-er]

Right, if the Russian ref can't be paid off to make a bad call, what's the point in even having the Olympics?

locally we have a russian figure skating coach who is really new to canada but speaks very good engish almost no accent, i figured he must have done some competative skating so how was that?

Buddy said he was doing 3 & 1/2 jumps but the best guys were doing 4 SO switch to ice dancing AND there were girls