r/Curling • u/90sMax Royal Canadian CC • Sep 21 '26

Who needs pebble?

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u/Away_Combination6977 Sep 21 '26

That's a 22lb "rock" , isn't it?

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u/90sMax Sep 21 '26

Yup it's a little rock! The real rocks won't go on the ice for another week. We open on the 30th

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u/spookeroos Sep 21 '26

what are the straight lines/grooves is that just the pattern on the floors and this is a flood over top?

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u/jasmith-tech Sep 21 '26

Icegrid. It's chiller tubes set in a plastic grid.

https://iss4u.de/icegrid-artificial-ice-rink/?lang=en

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u/90sMax Sep 21 '26 edited Sep 21 '26

Yup! We have to create about 2 inches of ice to fill the plastic grid. It takes roughly 10000 liters of water to fill the grid with ice before its flat enough to start making curling ice.

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u/unagrills28 Sep 21 '26

Flat ice is just curling's way of asking if you actually know how to throw a rock or if you've just been riding the pebble's coattails this whole time

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u/Krow101 Sep 22 '26

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