- Curling!
Curling's amazing.
Have, you guys seen curling on the Olympics?
I watch it every single time.
'cause its so much fun to watch.
- [Kim] Curling is one of my favorite Olympic
sports to watch.
I think it's very approachable.
And every time I see them,
I'm like, how hard could that be?
- It does look like it's something we could,
maybe...
- But I'm thinking
- Be Olympians in.
- But I'm thinking we've tried. You've tried pole vaulting.
We've tried rowing.
- Yes. Every time we try something,
we realize
- it's way harder
- and suck at it.
So this is our next one to see, like,
could we be curling Olympians?
- We're at Triangle Curling Club to find out.
- We're brand new. What's the first,
what's your elevator speech for someone
who's never tried curling.
- I want to say it's not as easy as it looks Penn.
Yeah. I'm going to go with that.
- I was afraid you were going to say that.
I've noticed there's a lot of this going on, right?
Like a lot of this, like sliding across the ice, like this,
am I doing that right?
- You are, but your toes should be pointed.
There you go. Okay.
- I'm getting a terrible cramp right now.
- Yes. Okay.
The hardest part I would say about curling is
getting your balance on the ice.
So when you've watched curling,
you know that you're on one foot
and one foot trailing.
If you're right handed,
you're going to keep your left foot flat.
You're going to put your right leg
straight out behind you.
(orchestral music begins)
At this point, you should have balance.
You can lift your arms up. There you go.
That's the position that you're gonna be in.
So this is a slider.
This is what's going to help you slide
when you throw your block, you've got one foot,
that's got grip on it and your other foot is
going to be slipping.
I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good.
Hold on. This is heavy
- [Kathy] 44 pounds.
(Sliding on ice)
- Watch out Olympics!
(applause)
- [Kathy] Olympics are in a few weeks!
- [Kathy] Okay. There you go. And we're not going. Nope.
Don't move that foot.
- (struggling) it's moving on it's own.
[Kathy] - okay okay.
(Laughter)
- [Kathy] Small push Penn and keep those
out in front of you.
Oh man. (Applause)
Very, very good.
Oh very nice. Really, really good.
- That's very similar to shuffleboard.
- So you have to let it go before this first line.
(Laughter and clapping)
- Do you guys have a thing about shuffleboard.
- Yeah.
- [Kathy] It's not like Shuffleboard.
- Don't say it Penn.
You're going to get us kicked out.
- [Penn] It's really like Shuffleboard.
- No. You're going to get kicked out.
- [Kathy] Push forward and, oh there you go
- Oh oh, I didn't twist it.
- [Penn] Oh who cares, look at this
(Sweeping)
- You know, this is harder than it looks.
I will say. There's a lot to think about.
And most of my thinking right now is like,
how not to fall.
- [Kathy] Oh very very nice!
- Go, go, go, go, go, come on.
Aren't you supposed to stop it?
(Laughter)
Right? So we're through phase one
balance during the Stone. How are you feeling?
- The flexibility balance and then
also letting go. Its a lot to think about.
- Right? It's already harder
and we also haven't come anywhere near
hitting the target, but we're going to be amazing at this.
- We're gonna be amazing at this.
- [Kathy] You're not sweeping small
and you're not keeping big because
that's just too much.
It's trying to meet him about the width of the Bronx.
- A bit of a workout.
For all the sweeping I do at home.
I thought it'd be better at this.
- I think I'm ready to compete against
the professionals now.
That's good. We're good.
We're good.
- So you've got four people on your team.
- Okay.
- Everybody throws two rocks each end.
So by the time everybody's done,
you've got eight rocks thrown from each team.
The goal is to be closest to the center
and to get more of your box.
closer to the center.
- I just feel like
I'm going to be really good at this.
- We're going to play against members of
the Triangle Curling Club.
And we've brought some friends.
- And you may recognize our Midwest neighbor.
Yes. And
- [Penn] or picker ball model picker.
- Picker ball model, Leanne.
Yeah. Okay.
So this is our team of four and I feel amazing.
(music begins)
- To curling.
- Great shot, great shot.
- Here we go.
- [Kathy] Oh beautiful start!
- [Penn] Oh that's good. Sweep.
- [Penn] Coming in hot. Big burrito!
- [Kim] Big burrito coming in!
- [Penn] Big burrito coming in hot!
- [Kim] Oh my, oh my, it's happening so fast.
- [Penn] Oh I think we're in trouble here.
- [Kim] I'm curling!
- Great shot.
- The sweeping thing
I thought would come naturally.
I don't know what I'm doing and it's way.
I don't think I'm helping at all.
- Oh yes. It's no pressure.
(Shouting)
- Sweep like your lives depend on it!
Sweep! Sweep!
- Team who's closest to the center of the
button right here...
- That would be you. - is the one that scores.
And you count out from there for all,
for that same color to see
how many they have scored.
- So if we had just gotten one of these sons, yeah,
you guys wouldn't get all these points, right?
This is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
- So the final score people know what they're doing.
- Six.
- New people,
- Nothing.
- It was fun though, right?
- That was a lot of fun.
And thank you to the Triangle Curling Club
for showing us just how much we have to learn.
I'm addicted.
- Yeah.
- I'm going to be back. I need a warmer gloves.
I think I caused more harm with my sweeping.
- I think we'd caused no effect whatsoever
with sweeping.
I think you have to be better at sweeping
to make any sort of impact on it.
- Very strong and very precise. We are neither.
So once again, the Olympics have taught us.
- We aren't as good as we think we are.
So enjoy curling on the Olympics and
watch like they get really excited.
It's a very fun sport to watch.
- Thanks for watching.
(Beep)
According to tradition,
the winners have to buy the losers drinks.
So we actually did that on purpose.
- We won, we won.
(Theme song begins)
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