What a good first hit sounds like
Before you count skips, listen for the first hit.A working stone on working water makes a slap: short, dry, close. The hops that follow are quieter. A dive is a gulp. A hero splash is a fat stone, or a throw that arrived standing up.Walk a shoreline with that in your ear and the rest of the field notes get simpler. Incidence, spin, a disc that is actually a disc — they are how you earn the slap. They are not a scoreboard.If the slap is missing, do not add...
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