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Professional stone skipper makes it all the way across lake
upi ^ | Sept. 24, 2015 | Ben Hooper

Posted on 09/26/2015 8:43:45 AM PDT by JoeProBono

BENNINGTON, Vt., - A professional stone skipper shared video of a throw at a Vermont lake that skipped more than a dozen times and appears to reach the opposite shore.

Kurt Steiner, who holds the world record for stone skipping for a 2013 throw that bounced off the water 88 times, posted a video to YouTube showing a recent throw at Lake Paran in Bennington, Vt.

The stone skips more than a dozen times and appears to hit the shore on the opposite side of the lake.

Steiner told Guinness World Records his technique involves finding stones "that weigh between 3-8 ounces... that are very smooth (they don't have to be perfectly round), flat bottoms and are between 1/4-5/16th of an inch thick."


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1 posted on 09/26/2015 8:43:45 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

That’s not a lake.


2 posted on 09/26/2015 8:46:23 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: JoeProBono
A professional stone skipper ...

Is that really a thing?
3 posted on 09/26/2015 8:47:26 AM PDT by jjsheridan5 (... but they have to go)
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To: jjsheridan5

next olympic game ....


4 posted on 09/26/2015 8:48:54 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
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To: JoeProBono

White sport - like hockey.


5 posted on 09/26/2015 8:49:13 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Balding_Eagle

That’s not a lake.


Why isn’t it a lake?


6 posted on 09/26/2015 8:49:24 AM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: JoeProBono

Interesting profession. I wonder how much he makes in a year.


7 posted on 09/26/2015 8:49:27 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: JoeProBono

Do professional stone skippers make more money than professional badminton players?


8 posted on 09/26/2015 8:51:06 AM PDT by fso301
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To: Cicero

In government hand outs? About 67k.


9 posted on 09/26/2015 8:51:43 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: Balding_Eagle

Why do you say that?

http://northbennington.org/paran.html


10 posted on 09/26/2015 8:51:54 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: JoeProBono

He’s no spring chicken, either. He looks like an old hippie.


11 posted on 09/26/2015 8:52:57 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: jjsheridan5

If society doesn’t have it’s stone skippers then we have nothing. Just like models, if we didn’t have models to show us how to wear our clothes people would be walking around wearing their pants on their head, their shirts on their legs and shoes on their hands.


12 posted on 09/26/2015 8:54:28 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: jjsheridan5
Amateur stone skippers are just called “anchor tossers”.
13 posted on 09/26/2015 8:56:43 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: jjsheridan5

“A professional stone skipper ...

Is that really a thing?”

Professional cup stackers think so.


14 posted on 09/26/2015 8:57:20 AM PDT by juggernaut
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To: Balding_Eagle

what would impress you? If he skipped it across the Pacific?


15 posted on 09/26/2015 8:58:19 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: JoeProBono

Where does one go to school to become a Professional Stone Skipper?

What are the criteria for being designated/certified a Professional Stone Skipper?

What is the career path for a Professional Stone Skipper?


16 posted on 09/26/2015 8:59:07 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: Arm_Bears

Why, “Stone School”, silly!


17 posted on 09/26/2015 9:01:20 AM PDT by pingman (Cruz or lose!)
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To: Arm_Bears

DeVry Institute

27+ skip toss

I’m guessing down, bounce, up, repeat...


18 posted on 09/26/2015 9:03:51 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

I could do that...


19 posted on 09/26/2015 9:05:17 AM PDT by nikos1121 ("There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." Thoreau)
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To: Balding_Eagle


20 posted on 09/26/2015 9:06:05 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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