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A lighthearted, fact-filled guide to the roaring game: curling

Immensely popular in Canada, curling has captured the hearts of millions of diehard enthusiasts around the world. Full of quirky characters, fascinating facts, intriguing history, and amazing trivia, this unique guide gives curlers (and lovers of the game) a colorful and often amusing look at this singular sport. With odd, funny factoids on every page, the book sheds light on the long-forgotten Downer Disc, a round curling broom, and how Charlie Kerr, a Brier curler of the '40s, was thwarted by the ash from his own cigar. This one-of-a-kind volume is the ultimate bonspiel prize for curling fans everywhere.Bob Weeks (Toronto, ON) is the editor of the Ontario Curling Report and the author of three books..
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Success in curling demands outstanding skill and strategy, but getting and keeping the champion's edge requires even more. Exceptional psychological skill is imperative. Ask the experts.

In Smart Curling, champion Vera Pezer uncovers these secrets for those who are committed to curling excellence. Winner of countless championships, she knows all about "hurrying hard" while keeping her cool to win. From the perspective of competitor and that of sports psychologist, Pezer illustrates how to maximize motivation and concentration while effectively managing stress and distractions. She teaches about self regulators and confidence and outlines the relationship between practice and competition. She helps players understand and practice excellent communication - verbal and nonverbal. And she outlines team dynamics to understand and work with the various personalities and roles of team members and coaches.

Loads of examples and illustrations elucidate the sound theory in Smart Curling while its worksheets (downloadable from the internet) are designed to help players complete the exercises required to perfect their game through mental training.

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With the Winter 2006 Olympics bringing Canada our first gold medal in curling, the sport's popularity is at an all-time high in this country, and its international presence is growing In the five years since the publication of the first edition of Curling For Dummies, Canadian attendance at curling tournaments and viewership of televised curling has skyrocketed. Twenty new nations have joined the World Curling Federation.

Curling’s profile isn't the only thing that's changed since the first edition was published — so too have the game's rules, equipment, and technique. Profiles of players, listings of television coverage and events, and memorable curling shots also need to be updated for the second edition. As the most comprehensive and up-to-date book available, Curling For Dummies will remain the ultimate curling book, for fans, players, and coaches..
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In The Roaring Game: A Sweeping Saga of Curling , bestselling journalist and (frustrated) amateur curler Doug Clark takes the reader on a fascinating behind-the-scenes journey all the way from the sport’s humble beginnings in sixteenth-century Scotland to the first international bonspiel played in Buffalo, New York in 1865 (a match between Canadian and American clubs that Canada won) to where the sport is today. From age nine to ninety, male or female, tall or short, players of all races and abilities enjoy the infectious camaraderie of the sport. But it’s not all about the socializing. Curling is a complex and maddeningly difficult game to perfect. The competition can be ruthless. It’s not surprising that competitive curling attracts larger and larger crowds every year. Curling became a full-medal Olympic sport in the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan, where the Canadian men’s team won silver and the women’s team took home gold. Curling has officially entered the realm of elite sport, makes heroes of its stars, like Mike Harris, Sandra Schmirler, George Karrys, Colleen Jones, Brad Gushue, and Glenn Howard. Curling has come a long way. Just ask Clarence "Shorty" Jenkins, a.k.a The King of Swing. It was his innovations that helped revolutionize the game. In his words, “A curling rock is smarter than a human being.” The Roaring Game shows how curling has gone from cold to cool. Part history, part memoir, and all tribute, The Roaring Game endears itself to novice and veteran alike. Praise for The Roaring Game : “Rock-solid look at the roaring game.”— Winnipeg Free Press “Clark makes it sound like a whole lot of fun.” — Gazette (Montreal).
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Originally published in 1947, this rare hairstyling book will teach you how to roll, curl and wave your way to recreating fantastic 1940s hairstyles! The author was a hairdressing expert and designed this book with comprehensive instructions and over 200 demonstrative illustrations of the techniques used to style hair in the 1940s. Considered a textbook for beauty culture schools, practicing hairstylists and the average woman wanting to do her own hairstyling, this book is an informative learning guide. The book covers: BASIC WAVES: shadow, narrow and wide wave; HALF-WAVES: horizontal, diagonal, vertical, and stand-up half-waves; BASIC CURLS: pin, sculpture and overlapping curls; BASIC ROLLS: top reverse, top half-wave reverse, top full wave reverse, side reverse, side half-wave reverse, side full wave reverse and top half-wave forward rolls; POMPADOURS: straight back, full wave and half-wave pompadours; BANGS: fluff, forward roll, half-wave, full wave, french and fringe bangs. The author then takes these curls, rolls and waves and details how to combine them to create more than 25 hairstyles. For those readers wanting technical knowledge, this book covers a bit of hairstyle history, terminology and his method of hairshaping (hair cutting). Six haircuts -- shingle, shingle plus, baby, middy, middy plus and long -- are detailed with both text and illustrations. Another chapter covers the artistic portion of hairstyling, instructing you in obtaining correct balance and using suggested hairstyles to aesthetically fix problems such as a crooked nose, narrow temples, long face, short face, long neck, large ears, etc. Correct hairstyles for oval, round, square, long and heart shaped faces are also provided. Sample hairstyles and illustration images are shown at the top of this page..
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This book-a Leonaur original-contains three rare works by members of Wellington's green sharpshooters. The first was written by Rifleman Knight-a personality who rarely appears in histories of the regiment-but who fought at Waterloo and took part in the pursuit of the French Army to Paris. He subsequently went to Portugal to fight as a mercenary and his account of his adventures on campaign and on the battlefield make riveting reading. Henry Curling wielded the pen that brought to the public the well known memoirs of Rifleman Benjamin Harris. This book contains more military anecdotes recorded by Curling from reports of other British soldiers of the Napoleonic Wars including several more by Harris himself. The final piece is a short history of the Rifles by Jonathan Leach who was an officer of the regiment and his history directly recounts events in which he was a personal and active participant..
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“And again, I had to pinch myself. Could this all really be happening? Was it possible that I was now a gold medal winner at fifty?

“I had won many championships, world and Canadian championships, Ontario and New Brunswick championships. I had won hundreds of bonspiels and cashed scores of first-place cheques. I have a basement full of trophies and medals, but nothing could compare to the moment I was experiencing now; nothing could ever match the newest reward that was hanging from my neck.”

 From Hurry Hard, Chapter 1

It was a long journey for Russ Howard from his childhood in small-town Ontario to the pinnacle of the Olympic podium in Turin at the 2006 Winter Games. Worlds apart, separated by thousands of kilometers and over four decades, but joined by one remarkable curling career.

A career that started on a quiet, lonely rink in Midland, Ontario. Howard, coached by his father, developed a solid, consistent delivery at an early age. He loved practicing, where other youngsters loathed it, and for hour after lonely hour he honed his skills by throwing rock after rock on the rink at the Midland Curling Club. A natural skip from a young age, Howard was always drawn in by the strategy of the game. He relished the responsibility of throwing the last rock. For him, it was always exciting and thrilling to control the final shot of the game, where others were fearful or nervous. And for over three decades, it has been exciting and thrilling to watch him.

With award-winning journalist Bob Weeks, Russ Howard takes us on his personal journey through forty years of playing the game he loves: championships won and lost, the characters in the game, ever-changing teams and teammates, personal triumph and heartbreak, and an inside view of the curling world from one of the greatest in the sport..
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