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.
my record is 4
I got 13 skips
i only skipped 3
my highest amount of skips is 3
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You don’t just have to skip on water, Ive skipped stones on grass and in puddles and on a rocky beach!
I’ll try it
i am horrible at skipping rocks
i like it
my record is 18 skips world record is 55 not kidding
that is so cool
wow
i once skipped a ten by eleven inch rock 5 times
The best kind of skipping stone that I can find is slate. It’s thin, easy to shape and and they are great skippers.
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my record is 14 skips. a bigger rock works a little better.
thanks for the tip I never skipped a sttone before
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
yeah right
Dude, how did you even count the skips and find enough room behind your house to skip a world record?
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
how do you know it was 22.5 angle…?