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u12armresl

u12armresl

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Well everyone, I give you, the world stone skipping championships.

Kurt Steiner is the world’s greatest stone skipper. Over the past 22 years, he has won 17 tournaments in the United States and Europe, generating ESPN coverage and a documentary film. In September 2013, he threw a rock that skipped so many times it defied science. This year he hopes to smash records on both sides of the Atlantic, giving him a platform for sermonizing about a sport he believes is nothing short of a means for the redemption of mankind—“a legitimate path to an essential inner balance,” he says.
 
Good for them. I love pool but I'd rather watch a stone skipping champion than pool. IMO pool is like sex, it's not a spectator sport.

The only spectators you get is pool players hoping to pick something up or degenerate gamblers. The degens are probably the future if you want to grow it as a spectator sport, but we all know pool has to maintain it's clean image.

There's zen/inner balance in pool and stone skipping. You perform or you don't. Most folks have skipped a stone in their life so they understand how great of a feat they are seeing. Also you don't need carbon fiber stones to skip them, the cost is very low, like the dreaded cornhole/bags. Cheap to get into and easy to understand, pool is neither.
 
u12armresl said:
Well everyone, I give you, the world stone skipping championships.

Kurt Steiner is the world’s greatest stone skipper. Over the past 22 years, he has won 17 tournaments in the United States and Europe, generating ESPN coverage and a documentary film. In September 2013, he threw a rock that skipped so many times it defied science. This year he hopes to smash records on both sides of the Atlantic, giving him a platform for sermonizing about a sport he believes is nothing short of a means for the redemption of mankind—“a legitimate path to an essential inner balance,” he says.
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1) When I was in my prime (6 years old) he didn't stand a chance. :)
2) Those rocks worked their way to shore for millions of years only to be cast back out into the water. How cruel!
 
boogieman said:
Good for them. I love pool but I'd rather watch a stone skipping champion than pool. IMO pool is like sex, it's not a spectator sport.

The only spectators you get is pool players hoping to pick something up or degenerate gamblers. The degens are probably the future if you want to grow it as a spectator sport, but we all know pool has to maintain it's clean image.

There's zen/inner balance in pool and stone skipping. You perform or you don't. Most folks have skipped a stone in their life so they understand how great of a feat they are seeing. Also you don't need carbon fiber stones to skip them, the cost is very low, like the dreaded cornhole/bags. Cheap to get into and easy to understand, pool is neither.
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Psst, there is good sized industry in spectating sex
 
A few weeks ago I was watching the Pro Break Dancing League or something like that. Seriously, a break dancing league, in 2022 LOL
 
u12armresl said:
Well everyone, I give you, the world stone skipping championships.

Kurt Steiner is the world’s greatest stone skipper. Over the past 22 years, he has won 17 tournaments in the United States and Europe, generating ESPN coverage and a documentary film. In September 2013, he threw a rock that skipped so many times it defied science. This year he hopes to smash records on both sides of the Atlantic, giving him a platform for sermonizing about a sport he believes is nothing short of a means for the redemption of mankind—“a legitimate path to an essential inner balance,” he says.
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Skipping stones, fishing with grandpa and touching a boob are all of a young man's important progress in life. Everything else is just fluff.
 
u12armresl said:
Well everyone, I give you, the world stone skipping championships.

Kurt Steiner is the world’s greatest stone skipper. Over the past 22 years, he has won 17 tournaments in the United States and Europe, generating ESPN coverage and a documentary film. In September 2013, he threw a rock that skipped so many times it defied science. This year he hopes to smash records on both sides of the Atlantic, giving him a platform for sermonizing about a sport he believes is nothing short of a means for the redemption of mankind—“a legitimate path to an essential inner balance,” he says.
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I’ve actually seen the competition on ESPN since hole sitting in a hotel room somewhere but hadn’t seen this documentary. That’s a unique dude. Im glad he got the record, it seems it mattered to him more than anyone else. It reminded me of a documentary on foosball and another on some sort of video game from the 80’s. Just a few of the things I sucked at back then. Thanks for posting that.
 
hang-the-9 said:
Skipping stones, fishing with grandpa and touching a boob are all of a young man's important progress in life. Everything else is just fluff.
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Mike freakin’ Mannion! Slept over his house in 6th grade. He had a page torn out of his grandpa’s Hustler magazine hid behind his bed. Then he tells me that if you fill a sandwich bag with peanut butter it feels like a real boob...
...Well, I never felt a real one. I wanted to know what it was like. A couple few years later I realized he was full of shit. At the time I thought he was a real expert.
There was a train tressel by his house that was over top the parkway with a bike path. We’d hang out there with a dozen eggs and try to hit the try-hard cyclists in the head. The try-hards were the ones who wouldn’t take the path, but insisted on riding their bike on the road. They couldn’t be bothered by joggers, dog walkers, or other casual bike riders on the path. They had to try SO HARD to keep up with those cars. They could almost do it sometimes, but still had to slow down for the curve right under the tracks.
Aah the good old days, the good old days, everybody’s talkin’ bout the good old days.
 
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