Items for you to bring for your first time curling:
- Warm, loose-fitting clothes (sweatshirt or sweater)
- Gloves & an optional hat
- Clean sneakers or rubber-soled shoes
- A good nature and sense of humor
Items we’ll supply:
- Great ice
- Curling stones
- Sweeping brooms
Susan Arminger and Alan MacNeil get the houses sorted out before the 2011-2012 season
Later, you can add:
If you decide to take up the game, our club store has available:
- Brushes – cloth-covered, horse-hair (stiffest) or hogs hair (softest)
- Curling shoes with slider atttached. Sliders are hard plastic, teflon, or stainless steel in order of increasing slipperiness. Curling shoes ususally have soft rubber soles for traction.
- Removable sliders – full foot and half foot
- Removable grippers, to protect slider or cover slider to ease walking on ice during sweeping
- Curling Gloves (baseball batting gloves work well too)
- Stop Watches – for timing rock speed
- Broom Bags
- Curling Pants – stretch material
- Jackets and a variety of other clothing
You can also make your own stabilizer bar.
