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While true, they were guaranteed to lose the game if they didn't attempt this. It was the last end and they were down 2. They needed two to score and this was the only way that that would happen.

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@@TheCurlingNews Thanks, now it makes sense.

He certainly does

They indicate if the thrower has let go of (literally - stopped touching) the stone before the 'hog line'. If the thrower is still touching the handle as the rock crosses the hog line, the lights will go red and the stone is "burned" and must be stopped and taken out of play. Fun fact - when first introduced, the nickel / metal handle used to detect the players hand was unexpectedly slippery and many curlers with a light touch would accidently throw the stones behind them when starting their throw.

@@eh42 Thank you so much for your answer!

The goal was to get the yellow stone's path to curl around the front stones to get to the red stone. The angles available in this shot would suggest it was not possible to get both enough curl to get to the red stone and still have enough speed to push it back and score. Normally the person throwing the stone puts a gentle, slow spin on the stone which, if the sweepers do nothing, will cause the stone's path to "Curl" (think hook in bowling). What made this so different was the almost comical amount of spin put on this throw - traditionally one would expect such a high spin to almost counterintuitively cancel any curling effect. Somehow they made it work!

Try it yourself and you will understand

@@eh42 Partially correct. Most people who have thrown this kind of shot for fun know that while the rock will stay straight most of the time, the "super spinner" will move almost sideways once it loses speed (a little after the hog line). What made this shot special was the combination of using this absurd super spinner to get around the guards (which would be impossible using normal rotation) and the gear effect, when the yellow rock came in contact with the red stone.

It’s really not

I was thinking about that a while ago. Hackner's shot was the only thing everyone was talking about the next week at the rink (I was in junior high at the time) and I remember a bunch of us set up stones to try and duplicate it. But, if you go look at it now, with the significantly better ice making that's been developed since 1985, in today's terms it was a good shot but honestly, nothing special. You see that sort of double routinely at the championship level.

He's very skilled indeed. That alone tells us how incredible this shot was.

@@andreaseriksson8803 i agree!! Hes been my fave player for many yrs now

Sure, but we still lost to them...😢

You got that right! :)

There's no way you get to that red rock and spin it out like that with a conventional throw. And by spinning a rock like that you have no control of it. It really is an insanely good shot.

Normally curlers use the spin on their stone to control the angle of the thrown stone as it reaches the nest. They throw it so it makes about 3-6 spins in all. Edin's stone made about 50 spins, which completely changes the trajectory to the point where you need to learn a completely new throw, which also means you need to sweep and call the stone differently. His throw then used the spin of the thrown stone to spin the target stone out. That was such a novel idea the commentators - including multiple Olympic champions - didn't see how making the hit and getting two points here was *possible*. So his team had come up with a new way to play the game. Then they needed to use that way to have a chance to stay in this world championship game. Even knowing how to make the hit it's very high difficulty because the throw is much harder to control and he didn't have much margin for error. And so he attempted, and successfully made a hit when he needed to do so to stay in the game - in a situation where fellow elite players thought making the throw was impossible.

Because the rock was spinning so fast when it hit the red one it created the gear effect and forced the red one to also spin and move. It’s such a great shot because spinners don’t move like a regular throw making them harder to execute and this man called and made the shot.

This wasn’t a new way to play the game. Spinners have been around and used for decades, just not very often.

​@@MiffetBlueThis shot wasn't special because it was a spinner. It was special because it was a gear effect spinner. If a regular spinner had been enough, the commentators wouldn't have been as impressed. They've seen that before. They hadn't seen this before.

I’d say zero. He’s that good 😊

Even if you know what you're doing it's a hard shot to make, so certainly a bit of luck.

Let’s see you do it this shot takes a ton of practice and skill lmao

It's already pretty crazy to chuck a rock down a sheet of ice and land it that precisely 40 meters away. To do it with that much spin just makes it much harder to control that precisely, and there's no need most of the time so it isn't really something they spend a lot of time practicing. I don't watch competitive curling that often, but I have *never* seen a shot like this before.

As you said, you know nothing. This shot is INSANE.

The shot you described would only get him one point. This shot is harder and the only way to get the two points they needed. It’s not a game of strength, it was about threading an impossibly thin line, via a heavy spin, to make the perfect connection to pull the red away.

Because they already knew and everyone agreed on that it was the best stone (and 1 point to the wellow team). The question to settle was about which was the second best stone? And after measurement, it turned out to be the other yellow stone, i.e. 2 points to the yellow team.

because it was closer. That was a point stone, both teams agreed on that. No need to keep it on for the measuring between the other two stones.

The below are correct..its in the way to test if 2nd stone is good for 2 points and tied game.

That’s just John Shuster on another sheet

There are other games going on too

She did it twice ~> not fast

@@MiffetBlue the reason she did it twice, it sounds like the Norwegian vice asked for a second one because the first was too fast. She needs to slow down when the needle is near the rocks.

She was freezing and wanted to get off the ice.

Yup, I didn't get a proper look the first time due to her fastness, so asked her to go a second round👍

@@gautenepstad3481 wow, thanks for confirming! You guys had a great week. Hope to catch you in the arena this week at the slam!

The challenge was to score 2... doing that with the positioning of the red was crazy hard as it was backed by the other (hopefully) scoring yellow at such a tough angle.

I don't think you understand the rules of this sport

@@askafroan525 lets be honest, nobody understands the rules to this sport. Noone watches this on TV lol

@@kpacny1 Speak for yourself only. I care. Other people here care.

@@kpacny1 I feel like you're trolling, but just in case: The rules are actually fairly simple. The number of stones you have in the circle and closer than the closest opposing stone is how many points you get. There's obviously more to it than that, but that's really all you need to get started as a viewer, have fun)

Kevin Martin ~> hold my broom Russ Howard ~> hold my stone ‘Nough said.