It used to be considered a near-impossible shot.

Walk onto a sheet of curling ice that you have never played on – or maybe played on last year once – and throw a draw which covers the pinhole. No practice – no sweeping! Impossible – right?

Not anymore.

Assiniboine Memorial past-President Ken Onagi did it last night at Charleswood, before the opening draw of the Manitoba Bonspiel. His success earned him the use of a Tesla vehicle for a month complements of Nott Autocorp.

Nott Autocorp and CurlManitoba have partnered in the contest for the last nearly ten years. Each year, three bonspiel competitors are drawn randomly and they take part in the shootout during the bonspiel’s opening ceremony.

The rules are that simple – one shot, no practice, so sweeping and stop your stone fully within the button’s outside line.

The closest anyone has come in the past is a draw which stopped fully in the four foot.

Ken Onagi will admit he probably isn’t going to win the bonspiel championship but for all time, he has bragging rights to being the first to make what used to be considered an impossible curling shot!