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Actually depends where you live. There are a number of ice clubs in my city that have year round curling leagues of all skills. It is one of those things that you probably would be surprised that you could do if you looked around enough.
Or the next time they play chess:
"What a masterful en passant! That's why they call this curling on a board!"
Golf as an Olympic sport isn't fundamentally different than something like skiing (with a specific non-standard course) or archery (with its focus on using a specific tool).
My local curling club has hosted the world curling championships, has won the mens USA championship a few times,and has dominated the womens side for a decade.
My local club is quite intimidating.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Context?
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What's an ice club?
About 4.75.
Wait...
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And that's because they want pro fighters to be able to compete in the Olympics.
That's an unfortunate result of point tag based scoring systems. You see it in Sport Krotty all the time.
Now that's an olympic sport!
*awards lawnchair man the Bartolo Colon Medal for Nonathletic Athletes*
Holy hell, that's even better.
We actually have a chess set in the living room. I'm going to with the curling references now so by the time we get to the next Winter Olympics, the change up will be even MORE annoying.
You are a genius.
First weapon you would get in Everfrost Peaks if you started a barbarian in the original EQ.
There is actually an ice rink right by my house. I just look and they don't have curling. Why even bother paying the air conditioning bill, people?
Obv they should just switch to epee.
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I'm guessing "sport karate".
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Ahah! It works correctly when you say it aloud.
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Are you going to slap pieces out of their hand if they try to move them by picking them up?
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Depends on which form you're watching. Epee awards hits, no matter who was first. Foil and Sabre have the right-of-attack rules (which is a bit more complicated than hitting first), but like all martial artists the competitive form is quite different from any practical form.
And of course, fencing came from dueling where fights were till first blood, so you can see how those rules evolved.
Foil fencing has some weird right-of-way rules that end with the sort of matches you're talking about. Sabre is more aggressive and can be a bit more fun to watch.
Epee is civilization.
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Thus, when someone launches an attack first (gaining right-of-way), the attacked party has to save their own life by defending against the attack (by parrying it, avoiding it entirely, etc.) before they can counterattack their opponent.
Epee comes more from the "to first blood" time of dueling, during which a minor nick anywhere was sufficient to end the duel. Therefore, the whole body is a valid target, unlike foil or saber, for which only a killing shot is considered sufficient to score a point, and you don't need to defend yourself as intently, so no right-of-way.
Saber has cavalry roots, hence the focus on hitting above the waist - don't want to waste your time stabbing horses or saddles instead of riders!
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this is some good-ass parenting
I didn't mean just the doubling or the subjectivity, but also specifically the yelling. At least in sport karate, and other point fighting systems, it's really prevalent because part of the scoring is appearing to have struck an effective hit without too much force. It's also an artifact of sport karate and American Kickboxing roots in no contact sparring competition in the 60's.
Ill find more videos if I can but basically korean lady won or held off her opponent or something but the clock kept running and she lost and sat on stage going WTF, and the IOC didn't do shit because of course not their deadbeats.
Then why the flip aren't the fencers on horseback? Borrow some dressage horses, or if the posh people won't share, get some mechanical bulls
This is something I never knew I wanted.
We've suggested it to the horse riding team at university several times. They never went for it.