Even more to it than mental toughness.
I can not see a 6 month window being enough to get down the weight for curling, you need years of practice to achieve that. You need to know the ice and have a feel for your weight not just for making a shot on the button but for guards and stuff like that too. Getting a feel for weight under certain circumstances and under certain ice conditions requires years of throwing rocks.
And I can not see someone taking to skipping in a 6 month time frame either. They are responsible for reading the ice and deciding on how much to give with the broom for the curlers' shot to be accurate.
Take out shots, I can see, if the skip has given the proper amount of ice for the shot.
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