How to skip rocks
By Jerdone McGheeFrom the May 1996 issue of Boys' Life magazine
To begin your quest for stone skipping success, follow these steps:
1. Select a skipping stone. The stone should be mostly flat, about the size of the palm of your hand and about the weight of a tennis ball. Triangular stones tend to skip best. Avoid circular stones. They’re less stable.
2. Grip the stone. Hold it with your thumb and middle finger, then firmly hook your index finger along the edge. Your thumb goes on the top of the stone, not around the edge.
3. Throw the stone. Stand up straight, facing at a slight angle to the water. Try to maintain this position during your entire windup and release. The lower your hand is at the release, the better.
Throw out and down at the same time. A skipping stone is bouncing off the water, so give it plenty of downward force. Try throwing faster instead of harder — strength is not the key, quickness is.
4. Release the stone. The faster the stone is spinning, the better it will skip. Spin it as hard as you can with a quick snap of your wrist. The stone should hit the water parallel to the surface.
Jerdone McGhee is founder of the North American Stone Skipping Association.
I skipped a rock 53 times today behind my house with a triangle rock. The thing is hold it like a plat and skip it hard
mine is only 5 im not able to throw it quick . im loosing more strength
I only skipped it 9 times!
this helped me in a rock-skipping compitition and i won
My record is about 15.
i did 21 skips with a triangle rock
I think the wrold record is 45
My record is 18 skips of the rock. Triangle is best, square is good, too.
Thanks for the Information. It actually helped with a Science project of mine.
Triangle stones ARE actually better.
my record is 17
at lake mead i skipped rocks with my friend… my dad said to use round rocks
i used triangular ones, and they DID work a lot better!
i already know
i skipped about 10
the most skips i have ever done is like seven or eight. anybody else?
go at 22.5 angle
I never skipped stones before because I can not find any good stones. Boo-hoo-hoo. ):
once i skipped it 30 times and all you have to do is get it to 25 degrees and something as big as half your hand and throw it as fast and spin fast
I’ve skipped a stone 12 times!
thanks for the tip now i can go beat my friends
If skipping rocks was a professional sport i would be on the alstar team. This lesson of skipping rocks i feal has a few flaws. while i do agree triangular rocks get good amount of skips they are also much harder to throw because of the of the points.see if uthrow a triangle rock at imperfect angle or to hard the three points of the rock are likley to pierce the water which would end up in a bad skip.
hey i was with some friends and i got 16 skips and then i got 17 skips.
adverge 10-15 best 27
I once skiped it one hundred and eleventeen times!!!!
skipping stones for girls
If your a beginer, skip coins. that’s
what I did
the most ive ever scipped is five, on a camping trip at lake mead.
the most i skiped was 4
i need more practice
the right size stones r hard to find
Once I skipped a brick.
The more horizontal the throw of the rock—the better the skip. If the throw of the rock is at less than a ten (10) degree angle to the surface of the water and the faster the spinning of the rock, the greater the more times that the rock will bounce across the surface of the water.
i feel in the water l.o.l!!!
I’ve only skiped 3 times I hope this helps me!!!
The first time I skipped a stone was when I was 5. I’m 11 1/2 right now.
The world recoerd for skipping stones is 57 in a row and it took 2 min. for it to stop.
The most I skipped is 14.
I always thought a stone skips better when its round.
I love skipping
its fun
ive skipped 11 once
I once skipped one 20 times in a row!
i didn’t read this,I’m just kominting for the fun of it
onces i skiped a stone 30 somethin times
cool… now i can skip stones?!?
the most i ever skipped a stone is 7 skips
the first time i skipped anything on water was 2 days ago with a penny