This is Stone Skimming | Sink or Skim
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- Опубликовано: 20 янв 2025
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The World Stone Skimming Championships is held on the tiny west coast island of Easdale. An island blessed with millions of perfect skimming stones after its slate mining industrial past was brought to an abrupt end by a huge storm. Water filled the immense quarries and created the world’s first stone skimming arena. The competition has always been, and is to this day, a community fundraising event, but tensions are now mounting between the small island community and the skimmers whose abilities have far outgrown the limitations of the 63m quarry.
As with any sport, it takes dedication hard work and a lot of practice to be the best. Stone skimming is an activity with competitive nature at its core, but little is known of the esoteric world of competition skimming and the devoted individuals who call themselves the ‘Elite’.
With the coveted title of World Champion and the first ever Guinness world record up for grabs, Sink or Skim delves deep into what it takes to be 'Top Tosser' in the biggest year in the history of the sport.
The sport is at a crucial apex, it’s future hangs in balance. A point where enough people are getting involved that questions are being raised about what direction the sport should move towards. This can be neatly split into two camps: people who think Easdale is the irrefutable spiritual home of the sport and should never move, and those who think it’s 63m quarry is a limiting length for throwers and a hindrance to stone skimmings’ potential.
There are murmurs and aspirations of it being accepted into the Olympics or Commonwealth games, and that may never happen if the sport can’t leave Easdale, that being said, Easdale’s survival is dependant of the money raised on the World ChampIonship weekend.
Alex Lewis and Dougie Isaacs, the two most capable competitors of hitting Easdales’ ‘Backwall’, hail from opposite sides of these camps. Dougie accepts the limitations of the island and demonstrates a zen attitude to competition, usually his zen comes from two pints of ale. Alex on the other had, only values one thing, and that’s winning. If doesn't get a competition that caters to the 100m-plus thrower he might just have to go a make one himself.
"There's stones, there's the water; gotta do it!" (Me every time i go near a lake)
To me, that's the best line in this trailer
One bounce on the vase with a stone (roll up) makes it fall on the slab
Just want it to be known that I searched this topic during the coronavirus quarantining. Eventually this video will be come famous because RUclips made it so but I just want people to know how boring the pandemic was.
Same here my guy, same here
One year on, still in the pandemic just as boring
We made the virus into a blob with eye lashes 😂 what happened to it?😂
Absoloutley love easdale island
My stone skimming record is around 26-30, it was at work at my summer job (working as a boatman on a lake my godfather manages), it was pretty great.
"Hello Dougie"
"afsgagaf"
"okay"
Legends
Wait till RUclips's algorithm makes it popular
Best game ever when you are in the river or any water body
Yo cuando era nin̈o lo jugabamos mucho en el rio entreamigos no dvertiamos arriva Oaxaca mexico
My dad thought me how to skim stones, like every Scottish father should
Yeah becomes a lockness monster 😂
Man really said it's the most competetive sport
I mean there's stone skimming and then there's skipping a rock so far that you can't see it anymore and judge when it finally stops when the water ripples stop.
Skim one over to Boston, I'll Skip it back.
So what place is japan
1:11 that costume :D :D
Oh sure, wait 20 years when they're complaining about "stone shoulder"🤣
and stone elbow!
Yup. Got both after 55 years of skimming, but every now and then I can still manage a really good one.
Boy, they do love skipping rocks.
dont you mean it is the most cost effective sport in the world... still looks like more fun than golf LOL :P
Got rock, got water can play.
how about crossgolf ?
Have stone, will travel…
hello future victims of youtubes odd algorithm
I try this and instanly kill a duck
1:04 - Shameful. Spoilt the whole thing for me.
1:12 Boris, a fine stone skimmer