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Sliding Delivery

First, a little note. The stone doesn't get delivered with the hand. It gets delivered with the leg. That sounds strange, but it is so. A right-handed person holds the stone with the right hand and pushes himself with the right leg out of the hack. In the left hand, he holds the broom to keep balance. A left-handed person is doing it the other way.

Right-handed curlers slide with the left foot and stretch their right leg behind them (see pictures above). Of course left-handed curlers do this with the opposite leg.

The sliding delivery is divided in different phases:

- stand into the hack
- adjust yourself to skip's broom
- take the stone in hand
- choose the correct handle (turn)
- make a forward movement toward the skip's broom
- raise up
- make a backward move
- push yourself out of the hack
- turn the stone and let it go

That is a very simple explanation of a sliding delivery. The sliding delivery is a very complex move to describe.  Most curlers can learn this delivery with proper training in a session or two.

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Last updated 09/27/2007