It's totally different. Winnipeg was my first year skipping. It was kinda 'what's going on.' There was tons of information, strategy sessions.

The original patent didn't have dimensions and contained just enough information to obtain a patent and make competitors sweat.

Getting three in the first end was great, but we knew we had nine ends left and that wasn't going to win the game.

We were going to play a little bit more conservative, but in the first end we really had no choice, that kind of got out of hand. We were doing a lot of freezes and I think when you freeze that creates more rocks in play and a lot of corner guards. So it was a very fun game to play with all those rocks.

You never know with teams that are out of it. They can play loose, come out with their A games, beat you.

Every experience builds confidence and you learn from everything.