Blue Lake Stone Skipping - 105 meters

A quick skip on a calm winter morning here in New Zealand. Several skips easily over 100 meters with one coming to shore with speed at 105 meters. This is getting close to the world record of 121.8 meters set by Dougie Isaacs. I think with a few more sessions and the right conditions I'll be able to get past that easily.
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My name is Chris Magoon, and I like to skip rocks. I grew up in New England, where perfect flat stones are reasonably easy to find. Now, living in the volcanic region of Rotorua, New Zealand I've been making my own custom made skipping stones from cement and local sand, trying to engineer the perfect rock.
In my videos I'll be on missions to find the best stones in the country, discussing the design of my concrete rocks and the physics of skipping, practicing my skips at local lakes and estuaries, and just having a good time skipping stones.
I'm by no means a professional skipper, but I think that with a little bit of engineering and a lot of practice I should be able to get close to the world records for skip count and distance. When I started this project, Dougie Issacs 121.8 meter distance record seemed like a lofty goal, but I’ve now been getting very close with skips coming in around 110 to 115 meters already. Kurt Steiner’s 89 skip record remains a significant challenge. I have been designing rocks with a focus on distance, though it is clear that tuning stone design for high skip count is also possible.
My mission to find the best skipping stones and skip on perfect flat water have taken me all around New Zealand. I’ve collected and skipped natural stones on the beautiful South Island lakes of Hawea and Wanaka, the Clutha river, Diamond Lake, Moke Lake, and just about any body of water large and flat enough to glide a stone across. Home on the North Island, I spend most of my time practicing with my concrete rocks in the shallows of Lake Rotorua and Blue Lake, with lunchtime skips at work on the Te Puna Estuary.
Its going to be a long journey, so follow along to see it all unfold.
I'll skip you next time!

[@mannyroman8371]

Sheeesh brotha, my friends and I geek over how perfect your throws are!!

[@daveohmer2261]

Hey man, we'd love to see you in Franklin, Pennsylvania some day. Every August! It's on the 21st this year. We get a couple hundred people together have a competition.

[@skipper_chris]

Great to hear from a fellow skipper. I would be thrilled to come to the Pennsylvania Championships some day! I bet you have some great stones over there. I still remember the beaches of endless skipping rocks on Lake Erie...so good! Do you have a competition class for manmade rocks? Interested to see if anyone else is making their own custom stones.

[@cgbreeki849]

Holy crap! That went far! Congratulations mate, seriously great skills! Beautiful throws these are... really beautiful throws... be careful with those birds though! XD

[@envy6313]

your a pro!

[@TartarSource5335]

Great camera work Mrs. Skipper!

[@ashleyrobinson7824]

do you shape your stones? they look perfect

[@skipper_chris]

I do, they are actually cast concrete stamped with 3D printed molds. No good flat rocks where I am in New Zealand, so I decided I'd just make my own

[@midnightdrifter1410]

@@skipper_chris would you be interested in selling your stone's?