CurlTv to cover Pacific Curling Championships

Curl Tv launches CurlTv Japan

The Pacific Curling Championships kicked off Nov. 21 in Karuizawa, Japan and the Japanese Women’s team will be looking to continue their dominance over other women’s teams in the region.

With the exception of 2001, when Korea won, Team Japan has won every tournament since 1991, the year of the Pacific’s inception. This year, the team skipped by Moe Meguro will try to continue the country’s streak.

Over on the men’s side, Hugh Millikin and Team Australia will try to regain his nation’s dominance over the Pacific Curling Championship. Australia’s men’s teams won from ‘91 to ’97, before New Zealand and Japan took over from there on in. Yet Australia is defending champs at the Pacific and Millikin is keen to repeat.

The top two Men’s teams and the top Women’s team will earn berths to the World Championships. The Men’s Worlds will take place in Edmonton, Alta. while the Women’s Worlds are happening in Aomori, Japan.

CurlTV.com is broadcasting the Pacific Curling Championships up until Nov. 26. The commentating will be in Japanese, but the action will be classic curling.

2006 Pacific Curling Championships

The Pacific Curling Championships is an annual event held very November or December since 1991. The top two countries in the Pacific Championships earn a berth at the following World Championships. The Pacific Curling Championships currently consist of teams from Australia, China, Chinese Taipei, Japan, Korea and New Zealand.

Hopefully in two years, Philippines will start fielding a team. Do you know a Pinoy curler. Email us.

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We have a skip

Art D of Vallejo, California is the designated skip

The skip is the captain of the team and determines strategy. Based on the strategy, the skip holds the broom indicating where the player throwing must aim ("calling the shot"). When it is the skip's turn to throw, the vice-skip (usually the third) holds the broom. The skip usually throws the last two rocks of the end, however some teams have the skip throwing in other positions.

Look at that slide

I learned the basics in 45 minutes and sliding in 2 hours. Yehey!

When sliding out, one must start with one shoe (the one with the non-slippery sole) against one of the hacks. I'm a right hander so i will use the left hack.

Kalabasa rocks

Today, June 23rd, I attended curling open house at Vacaville Ice Sports. Curling season is over but in this part of Northern California its just getting started. I learned that the rock is made of granite and almost exclusively from Scotland, it weighs 42 lbs, super bigat, which reminds me of giant kalabasa (squash) when I was a kid growing up in the Philippines.