Full House at Braehead Curling Seminar

Norman Cathcart, The chair of The Braehead Curling Development Group was delighted to declare a full house when almost 70 Club Curlers attended a Curling seminar held at Braehead on Wednesday 23rd November. 
Braehead’s award winning Ice Master Chris Noble and the vastly experienced International Umpire Leslie Ingram-Brown were the guest speakers. 

Chris Noble Braehead's Ice Master

Chris started the evening by providing an insight to the secret world of creating ice by showing a fascinating video of his Ice making team transforming the concrete pad at Braehead into a high quality 8 sheet curling rink - this was two weeks work cut down to about 15 minutes on video. He was also able to give unique advice on how to read ice conditions by using several video slides. Many questions were asked and all expertly answered by Chris who even admitted that as they continually have to work with ongoing changing conditions they sometimes get it wrong. Fortunately for Braehead curlers and those that play in the various competitions held at The Curling Rink, including the Braehead open and the Glynhill International this does not happen too often and is quickly addressed by Chris and his dedicated team. 

Leslie Ingram-Brown provided a guide on the rules which generally affect club Curling along with advice on the etiquette we should all be observing. He was also able to recall many stories from his world wide travels to keep the audience entertained. He then invited the audience to name as many of the curling etiquette rules named in the 2nd issue of the new “Your Curler” on line magazine. This talk was also followed by many questions ranging from “How do you carry out a proper measure” and “Why does the rule on curlers using a stick vary between The RCCC and The WCF. Again all questions were expertly answered and Lesley stressed that “The spirit of Curling” should always be at the fore when playing any game of curling. 

Leslie holds the floor

The appreciation of the audience was reward enough for Norman who had spent a great deal of time organising the event. Thanks are due to everyone who helped and especially the curlers who came along to support the event. 


Report
David Horne 

CDO Braehead