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Anyone else going to the world champs this weekend?
Spent a week staying at a cottage on Easdale. Right arm like Quagmire by the end of it.
It’s a toss up! 😉
It's all in the wrist action!
There's plenty of folk here with a well developed wrist action 😀
I'm the only person to have turned up before 2014 with an Indian birth certificate, so without so much as a demo of my wrist action I was crowned Indian champion and my name was written in the school exercise book of Truth.
Here's me demonstrating my wrist action to an appreciative crowd at the 2014 Championships.
And the resultant happy ending. 46m I'll have you know.
Surely it's smurfmatt.
…I’m nearly blind despite the warnings when I was in my teens.
I have questions about what is tossed across the lake and how the tossy items are aquired. Are they natural objects or are they manufactured for specifically for tossing competitively? Or, is aquiring the perfect tossing item all part of the competition? Or can you bring your own, or must they be foraged from the immediate vicinity only?
What are the rules?
Stones
- You must use naturally formed Easdale slate stones.
- Stones cannot be wider than 3 inches at their widest point.
Skimming Attempts
- Each contestant gets three skims per session.
- You can only participate in one session.
- You cannot be part of more than one team.
Valid Skims & Judging
- For a skim to count, the stone must bounce at least twice on the water’s surface.
- The length of your skim is measured to the point where the stone sinks.
- The longest valid skim in each category wins. (See “Ties” for tie-break rules.)
- You cannot have a “run-up.” Both feet must stay on the platform when you throw.
Official Signals
- A red disk means an invalid skim.
- A green disk means a valid skim.
- The throw judge’s decision is final.
Invalid Skims
A skim is invalid if:
- The stone bounces fewer than two times.
- The stone bounces or sinks outside the designated skimming area.
Ties
- Overall Champion Tie: If there’s a tie for the Overall Champion, the winner is decided by a cumulative, three-skim “Toss-Off.” The total distance of these three tie-break throws determines the winner. A “Back Wall” hit counts as 63 meters.
- Other Categories Tie: For all other categories, ties are broken by the cumulative total distance of all three original skims.
Teams
- Team names cannot be similar to existing team names.
- Team members must register individually when registering their team.
- Teams can have a maximum of four people of any gender and age.
I have questions about what is tossed across the lake and how the tossy items are aquired. Are they natural objects or are they manufactured for specifically for tossing competitively? Or, is aquiring the perfect tossing item all part of the competition? Or can you bring your own, or must they be foraged from the immediate vicinity only?
What are the rules?
You're focusing on issues that are secondary. They will look after themselves.
The pre-skim and post-skim party events should really be your focus here. It's the main focus of many over the weekend - 🍻
Having ridden a lap of Easdale on a tour of the Slate Islands, I reckon there's a CX course there. Only tricky thing was the section with a bit of a drop into the water on either side of the track. Just checked the segment I set up - still the KOM.
Post-race activities in The Puffer, natch.
I've not got Strava, or else I would be taking a bike and trying for a lap... 😎
I've not got Strava, or else I would be taking a bike and trying for a lap...
Having skim* read to the end of the thread, you mean there's a setting in Strava for stone skimming?
* see what I did there?
I've not got Strava, or else I would be taking a bike and trying for a lap...
Having skim* read to the end of the thread, you mean there's a setting in Strava for stone skimming?
* see what I did there?
I'm off to investigate if Google Fit and Strava list tossing as an activity....
Saw a BBC doc a few years back, Sink or Skim.
Looks like fun.
Love skimming stones.
There's plenty of folk here with a well developed wrist action 😀
Well yes, but you still need to be able to see which direction to throw the stone in.
Sea levels are rising fast enough without you lot contributing!
*anticipates a thread on tennis elbow*
This sounds like singlespeeding for people who can’t even be bothered to pretend to race ride bikes.
Is there a “Le Mans” start where everyone’s stones are hidden in a big pile?
Is there a “Le Mans” start where everyone’s stones are hidden in a big pile?
Aye. The big pile of stones is called Easdale. I found my stones this morning...
Are you still the champion?
Nah, dude a few places ahead of me was Indian and clearly lobbed further than I did...
I assume the intervening years have seen a few others too...
There were two other Dunblane'rs as well - so I'm not even the biggest local tosser
Every year I plan to go, and every year something else gets priority penciled into the calendar .
Then, when I look all sad,and explain to the family that it's the world skimming champs ,they just give me a look of pity. 😥 🙃
@matt_outandabout I remember ages back you suggested an STW tossers meetup at Easdale.
I still think it's a good plan 👍 🙂
It would be a good idea - except that the competition entry is so popular that 400 spaces sell out in under 3 minutes....and they had over 8000 attempts to buy a ticket.
We could just go to drink and heckle...