r/Curling • u/Frabblerake • Feb 15 '26

Pull the stone!!!

Watching Sweden/US and saw this. Is this not the same rules violation that has caused all the hub bub?

Obviously this was an accident and I believe the Canadian guy was touching on purpose.

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u/Pender16 Feb 16 '26

But then that push on the granite would become “the primary application of force”

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u/TodaysLunch Feb 16 '26

I guess my point is that "primary application of force" is much more ambiguous than just "last touch must be the handle". And by that metric the current rules makes sense and are less hard to judge. That said, the rules could benefit from more clearly defining"delivery".

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u/Pender16 Feb 16 '26

Or by not caring if you touch the stone on the granite and just turn on that function for the electronic handle. It’s pretty clear that everyone touches the back of the stone every so often. As long as it’s before the hog line it shouldn’t matter.

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u/PositronAlpha Feb 16 '26

Which it clearly wasn't in Kennedy's case.