{"id":8987,"date":"2018-02-14T13:23:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T20:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2018-03-06T13:26:49","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T20:26:49","slug":"bubble-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/14\/bubble-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubble Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Smithsonian<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Why Curling Ice is Different Than Other Ice<\/h1>\n

There is a science to preparing ice for the shuffleboard-like sport. It\u2019s all about the pebbling<\/p>\n

By Erica R. Hendry<\/a><\/p>\n

\"20140214-130128.jpg\"An ice maker pebbles the 2014 Olympic curling rink in Sochi. (Rich Harmer)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be honest: the fervor around curling in the 2014 Olympic Games has been mostly driven, so far, by the return of\u00a0Team Norway\u2019s outrageous pants<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When it comes to knowing as much about the sport, plenty of people fall a little short. And if you don\u2019t know the rules, odds are you aren\u2019t thinking much about the actual surface across which athletes push 44-pound stones for a shot at Olympic glory.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just a hockey rink,\u00a0right?<\/p>\n

Well, not quite. Trying to curl on untreated ice \u201cwould be like a pro golfer going from putting at Augusta to putting on his back lawn,\u201d says Derek Brown, USA Curling\u2019s director of high performance.<\/p>\n

If curling ice was flat,\u00a0the stone would move barely halfway across the \u201csheet,\u201d or curling lane.\u00a0And that\u2019s assuming the curler is hurling it as hard as possible.\u00a0Friction would halt the rock\u00a0within seconds. So, to make the ice more amenable to the sport, devoted ice makers employ a technique called \u201cpebbling.\u201d\u00a0More or less what it\u00a0sounds like, pebbling involves\u00a0freezing small droplets of water across the playing surface between each match.<\/p>\n

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from Smithsonian Why Curling Ice is Different Than Other Ice There is a science to preparing ice for the shuffleboard-like sport. It\u2019s all about the pebbling By Erica R. Hendry An ice maker pebbles the 2014 Olympic curling rink in Sochi. (Rich Harmer) Let\u2019s be honest: the fervor around curling in the 2014 Olympic Games […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}