The sport of curling is having its moment during the Winter Olympics, with viral memes of the sport taking over social media. A Bay Area curling club is also benefiting from the surge in popularity, with more people enrolling into curling classes since the beginning of the Olympics.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a busy Monday night at the San Franciso Bay Curling Club in Oakland, after another event teaching people the sport of curling was sold out.<\/p>\n
Dan Sculley visited the club with his family all the way from Vacaville.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re enjoying watching it on the Olympics, and we\u2019re looking for something to do tonight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
And the Winter Olympics is generating quite the buzz around the sport.<\/p>\n
The club says more than four times the amount of people has booked curling lessons compared to this time last year.<\/p>\n
And their website has crashed multiple times due to high demand.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a few weeks this year, suddenly the whole world is watching and enjoying it right alongside us, sharing memes too,\u201d said Corey Fisher, a club member.<\/p>\n
And those memes were definitely taking over social media, as people attempt to do their own version of curling inside of their homes.<\/p>\n
In Oakland, people were getting the real-life\u00a0experience of curling with instructor Abby Lin, who will soon be competing in a national curling competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is just an introductory of how do you curl, how do you throw a rock, and by the end everyone will be absolute pros, ready for the Olympics,\u201d Lin said.<\/p>\n
The club plans to add more events like the one on Monday night in the coming weeks, but spots are filling up fast.<\/p>\n
For people like Sculley, he plans to take advantage of the curling lessons and already has his sights set on 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sport of curling is having its moment during the Winter Olympics, with viral memes of the sport…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[14389,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-181262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-2026-milan-cortina-olympics","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}