VIDEO In 2013, Kurt Steiner Set the Stone Skipping World Record with an Amazing 88 Skips

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In 2013, Kurt Steiner Set the Stone Skipping World Record with an Amazing 88 Skips

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In 2013, Kurt Steiner Set the Stone Skipping World Record with an Amazing 88 Skips

Sep 14, 2021

On September 6th, 2013, Kurt Steiner set the Guinness World Record for “most consecutive skips of a stone” with an astonishing 88 skips. The cast was achieved at Red Bridge, near Kane, Pennsylvania.

Kurt, being the previous record holder for this category from 2002-2007, had been practicing for the past few years to improve his skills. According to Guinness, Kurt has collected more than 10,000 “quality rocks” and has sorted each according to its type, to prepare for the best possible throw. He looks for 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.”

Stone Skipping World Record by Kurt Steiner - 88 skips (2013)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORU_AOn43KI

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Kurt Steiner - Insane Stone Skipping - World Record - 88 Skips [with Count Overlay]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1KfuErAcj0

1:24 run time

 

[West]

I did 89 once but that was before drones and computers to document it.

 

[PghPanther]

I read that title and thought this guy managed to avoid a doctor's visit and/or hospital treatment for over 88 kidney stone episodes.

 

[bw]

I read that title and thought this guy managed to avoid a doctor's visit and/or hospital treatment for over 88 kidney stone episodes.

I was thinking Hitler is screaming for him and here he is skipping damn rocks. No wonder Germany lost.

 

[tm1439m]

I used to skip stones a lot when I was a kid. There was an old pond out back of where we lived and I spent many a day skipping stones. I could tell in an instant whether or not a stone was going to skip well. Most of the time I was correct in my intuition.

So one day I pick up this stone. I knew it was perfect when I saw it on the ground. I picked it up and it was a naturally perfect shape. It just felt right in my hands. This was south western Michigan and there were a lot of great stones in the area but this one was perfect as I said and I knew it was going to skip well.

I skipped that stone across the pond and it was a very calm day. It skipped perfectly and made it all the way down the length of the pond and landed on the far bank. Boy was I excited. We never usually had stones make it that far. I ran as fast as I could down there and found it. I picked it up and gave it another toss. Sure enough it skipped to the other end and again landed on the far bank. That was the two best skips I ever had. I continued to skip that stone back and forth for a good while before putting it in my pocket and hanging on to it.

I carried that stone around in my pocket for quite some time. I used it a LOT of times out there and with my friends a good bit. Then one day I was about to skip it and I thought to myself one day its not gonna make the trip and will be lost forever unless I search the bottom of this pond. LOl that was not going to happen. So I dropped it in my pocket. Later I took it home and put it in an old tool box my dad gave me for Christmas one year as a small child. Unless someone took it out its still packed away with some other childhood treasures I still have. Gonna have to dig that thing out one day and take a looksy.