Field notes on skipping rocks, written before anything is for sale. Read them in order, or start with the throw and work backwards. The centre is the skip: the stone, the water, the next bounce. Skipping stones, stone skipping, how to skip a rock — same shoreline, same disc.
The notes
- The Science of Skipping Rocks — why a stone skips: incidence near twenty degrees, backspin, speed, and a disc that planes. With the papers named.
- How to Choose a Skipping Rock — how to read a shoreline for a stone that will fly, and how not to strip a beach.
- Optimal Size, Shape & Weight — diameter, thickness, mass, and a workable starting set.
- How to Skip a Rock — stance, grip, a low fast release, teaching a child, and the usual ways a throw dies.
About Marty Skips Rocks — who writes this, the handle martyskipsrocks, and what is not in the shop yet.
Dated notes live in Notes by post, starting with how a good first hit sounds. The four pages above do not expire. Stones and merch will follow. The notes are the work now.