When I first started curling in P.E I had a lot of trouble. I knew nothing about curling and I was not that good. But as I started to get the hang of it, it became fun. We watched videos about curling, and my P.E teacher taught us a lot. I had a very good experience of curling. And, it was fun. So I’m going to be sharing my experience of curling.

When I started to be taught how to curl, I was confused. I play a lot of sports. Basketball, soccer, softball, and tennis. But I never heard of curling before! That was until one day in P.E we started to learn how to curl. At first it was a bit hard. I had to get used to the equipment. We learned how to use the stone. At first we started with bean bags. When we started to get the hang of that then we used fake stones. This felt more like curling than using bean bags. Using the fake stones would make us feel more comfortable when using the real stones because we already kind of know what it’s like. After a few P.E classes, we moved to using the real stones. This was not really the same. But the real stone was bigger, and the fake one looked nothing like the real stone. Also, the real stone is a bit more heavy than the fake ones. After we knew how to use the stones, we started to learn how to sweep. We did not work on this as much as using the stones, but we still did about 1 P.E class on sweeping. It actually was hard to sweep. Often, people, including me, forgot what hand to put on top. I remember when I tried to sweep, I did it wrong, I could tell I was doing it wrong and I thought to myself “What am I even doing right now” .After we learned all of this we started to actually play against people in our class. We would choose a partner, and then play against another group of two. All of this was super fun and I’m glad that I know how to curl!

When my P.E teacher introduced us to curling I didn’t know a lot about it, but now I do. We learned a lot about curling throughout January and late December.For example, we watched a lot of videos about curling. In the videos it showed interviews of people who curl, and it showed curling matches. It also showed facts about curling. We watched videos a lot, almost every P.E class in January But we didn’t just learn about curling through those videos, we also learned about curling by learning the rules. Which is one of the most important parts of a sport, to know the rules. We learned what the hammer was. The hammer is the person that gets to throw the stone last. Which you change anything by being the hammer because you can knock somebody’s out. Or you can knock one of your teammates’ stones out. You can also learn to know who won the round. For example, if one stone only is in the circle, than your team only gets one point. But if there are more stones in the circle, then you get as many points as the amount of stones in the circle is. Learning about how to curl has been such a good experience.

Throughout December and January curling has been so much fun in P.E. I have learned so much. And now I know how to play another sport! I have learned how to play, I learned the rules, and I learned about curling in general! This has been such a good experience for me and I look forward to playing curling again in the future. Have you ever participated in curling?