Niklas Edin Super Spinner: Breaking Down the Best Curling Shot Ever Made

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Жыл бұрын

At the 2023 World Championships, Niklas Edin made what many are calling the greatest shot in curling history. In this video, I do my best to break down how this shot worked and provide some background for this unforgettable moment in curling history.
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@shahmatjf2 Жыл бұрын

I honestly thought this was "simply" a desperate attempt, some kind of Hail Mary. But the more I look at it, the more I understand that Edin knew exactly what he was doing... wow!!! This will be called the Edin Shot or something like that.

@eratera5836 Жыл бұрын

You know it's serious when the judges take out the long stick with a thermometer on it.

@larshansson9814 Ай бұрын

Team Edin must have obviously trained on this type of stroke hundreds of hours. Both Edin and Eriksson have done this successfully in important competitions. A special technique is needed and the sweepers judge a different type of speed and trajectory. Impressive.

@DampLover Жыл бұрын

As a Swede it makes me so proud! In my biased opinion Edin is the GOAT.

@thomasdavie4821 Жыл бұрын

As a Canadian, damn that was the best curling shot I’ve ever seen in my life!v

@SylviusTheMad Жыл бұрын

That is almost word for word what Russ Howard said about the shot during the Canadian broadcast.

@jaberwoky_ Жыл бұрын

And the last bit was that the rotation on Edin's rock spun it back to get closer to the pin and score the second point.

@kristofferhellstrom Жыл бұрын

As a Swede I'm so proud of this!!!

@bonez9160 Жыл бұрын

Me to! ❤

@jonasedfeldt1127 Жыл бұрын

I'm proud of the team being Swedish and the incredible talent this team possess. Härliga grabbar att kolla på!

@tinasjostrand2677 Ай бұрын

Samma här!😊

@mikedepolo1607 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding explanation, Ed.

@jdest21 Жыл бұрын

Great video and analysis of gear effect and angle of the incoming stone :) Another fun underutilised aspect of spinners is when applied to heavy take outs, as the spin can transform the angle/momentum the shooting stone takes after hit. For instance it's theoretically possible to make a double across the house even if both opponents stones are on a straight horizontal line, which cannot be done otherwise

@OSSY17 Жыл бұрын

Sweden are the masters when it comes to Curling

@KjartanAndersen Жыл бұрын

Every professional curler will start training this method just to have it in the arsenal for future use.

@michaelmorrisey9760 Жыл бұрын

Right at the end, did the shot rock stop forward motion, kept some spin and turn back closer to the button?

@Divedown_25 3 ай бұрын

6:20 what a shot. Definitely it will be practiced by all elite players

@karlandersson4350 Жыл бұрын

CURLING! FUCK YEAAAH!

@guessundheit6494 Жыл бұрын

It doesn't matter that neither shot won a game. They proved this is possible, and it's another tool teams have to open up play and deal with guards. Now you won't always need long runbacks at hack weight to move buried stones.

@hnican Жыл бұрын

Norway can’t expect to win leaving easy freezes like that.

@mattias5157 Жыл бұрын

😆

@SuperYxskaft Жыл бұрын

hahaha

@evanjohnson1226 Жыл бұрын

🤣

@janedosman2379 Жыл бұрын

However Jeff Stoughtom of NB i believe made a delivery called the Spin-o-rama. Even more impressive...

@muldfox Жыл бұрын

As a Swede, it makes me happy inside seeing the Norwegian desperately trying his best in the end - to no avail.

@petrograd4068 Жыл бұрын

Well, Norwegian team still won over us, so. The Norwegian team said they also partly hoped Edin would make the shot because it would be so amazing if he did. I'm actually grateful the Norwegian player sweeped the stone to try to win, it ensured Edin's stone was a genuine win and wasn't the result of the opposing team underestimating his shot.

@muldfox Жыл бұрын

@@petrograd4068 Well, that was somewhat the point of me expressing the whole thing. Me finding joy in the Norwegian being incredibly desperate, as a counter to the loss. With that being said though, Sweden still has more gold in curling than Norway. Both in the Olympics and World Curling Championships. :)

@DavidComeau Жыл бұрын

Here’s a similar shot I think is equally impressive. Skip ahead to 1:00 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZ2Eppp3mtvXfJ8.html

@rapid13 Жыл бұрын

Isn't Edin the one who completely folded vs USA in the Olympics?

@petrograd4068 Жыл бұрын

His team are reigning olympic champions but they have lost games there in the past.

@handiman5001 Жыл бұрын

Apparently people don't curl much or watch much

@pocobull Жыл бұрын

It's a unique shot, but hardly the best ever. In fact it's not even close. Al Hackner's double take out in the 10th end of the final of the 1985 Brier was, and will always be the greatest curling shot ever. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sJd_Z61qzKysYGQ.html

@hansgrundberg6839 Жыл бұрын

@thomasdavie4821 Жыл бұрын

aye, I remember this shot too.

@mikedepolo1607 Жыл бұрын

There's one in every crowd; that guy who thinks the past can never be surpassed. The fact is, while the stakes were higher than most every curler will ever face, there are thousands of club curlers who can make the shot Hackner threw. In the end, it was little more than a down-weight thin double. To say that Edin's shot, with all the precise mechanics necessary for it to be made, is "not even close," just shows your bias, and not any understanding of how almost impossibly difficult a shot it was.

@pocobull Жыл бұрын

@@mikedepolo1607 If you think that that shot could have been made by any old club curler, than you don't know a thing about curling. Listen to the reaction of the guy doing colour for that match. Does he sound like that that was a hum drum, oh look another double take out shot to tie the game in the 10th end? Anyone watching that game at the time, including myself, knew we had seen something unbelievable, and would probably never see again. I am not trying to take anything away from Edin's shot, it was unique and well executed, but it doesn't touch what Hackner did in 1985.

@hansgrundberg6839 Жыл бұрын

@@pocobull Then listen to the experts commenting this game: "This would be the best shot in history if made" and he did it. Of course, much more was at stake for Hackner and much more pressure, but the Edin stone is more difficult. I've seen similar double takeouts both before and after, but this is extraordinary.