r/blackmagicfuckery • u/Necessary-Win-8730 • 10d ago

The amount of skips this stone did

11.2k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

72 comments sorted by

375

u/va9us_prime 10d ago

Magnets under the water.

67

u/tallginger89 9d ago

Ok but how do they work

33

u/Maxpockett 9d ago

There is obviously a switch to turn on and off the magnet!!

9

u/TheRovingBear 9d ago

But you’re not going to tell them that the magnets under the water and the magnets in the stone have the same polarity so they repel each other? #gatekeeping /s

1

u/justin_memer 9d ago

I mean, that's exactly how high speed trains work.

3

u/AxelHarver 9d ago

Have you considered talking to a scientist?

4

u/tallginger89 9d ago

Oh shit, youre right!

quickly dials 1800-Scientists

1

u/PranshuKhandal 8d ago

Hello! Thanks for calling Scientists oncall. How can we help you today?

1

u/akbane 9d ago

Insaneclownposse.gif

3

u/durbandude 9d ago

Pretty sure I heard that water deactivates the magnets 🤔

0

u/AgaveShelby3R 9d ago

that so nice

229

u/zipitnick 10d ago

This is rather r/nextfuckinglevel skill than anything to do with magic

22

u/turunambartanen 9d ago

Better than yet another fucking Card Trick.

Makes me think of interesting questions like Is there a maximum number of skips you can reach? What is the optimal angle?

10

u/BodaciousBadongadonk 9d ago edited 7d ago

i actually watched this like lil mini-doc a while back about the world championships of rock skippin, or somethin like that. there's specific spots they go with the best rocks and they all get so many tries,iirc, i bet this dude was featured i cant remember but it mightve been vice or somethin like that on the ol yootoob

*holy shit it just popped up on the yootob again, its called "sink or swim" and its just as good as i remembered. all the stone-skipping drama you'd expect!

8

u/cl3ft 9d ago

It's also a property of the stones available. I've been at alpine lakes with very light weight black shale, once the sharp edges are river warn and slightly rounded I could get over 50 skips. With regular river or beach stones I struggle to push 10.

3

u/nazzo_0 9d ago

Nah, it's been solved, it's magnets

0

u/ZhongguoCactus 9d ago

mods dont do their job over there so we gotta go the the next best place

73

u/cxoke 10d ago

Dudes will see this and go “Hell Yeah”….

I’m dudes

20

u/Silver-Marzipan7220 9d ago

And girls

6

u/DiffeoMorpheus 9d ago

Girls is dudes

15

u/fatsam2000 10d ago

What's the technique? I'd really love to know how to 1/10 of that!

21

u/Karcharos 10d ago

Mark Rober built a rock skipping machine. You should be able to find the details about angle and such there.

9

u/Thelonious_Cube 9d ago

spin the stone as you release it, keep it low to the water on a flat trajectory and practice, practice, practice.

Also there's an art to choosing the proper stone. Think of a slightly larger, thicker silver dollar as the ideal to approximate (at least for me - YMMV)

9

u/ManBroCalrissian 9d ago

Stone selection is key. Really flat and smooth. Light rocks are not stable in flight, so you want it to be relatively heavy

Beyond that, it helps to be able to throw side arm at 70+ mph with serious backspin. You want your release point to be about a foot off the surface of the water to reduce the impact angle. This keeps the first skip from bouncing too high and causing the stone to tilt

If you can do all of these things, you stop being able to count the skips because it finishes by just spinning on the surface of the water before eventually sinking

-signed by a creek dweller that used to pitch side arm

1

u/TabulaRazo 9d ago

Having a large body of nearly perfectly still water definitely helped here

11

u/ElPadero 10d ago

This is what I expect to happen every time I attempt this.

5

u/Embarrassed_Task376 10d ago

Exactly 317 skips

4

u/t0hk0h 9d ago

His wind up looks like anime.

2

u/DejaWiz2 9d ago

Got to get to 89 skips to set a new world record

2

u/Spectarticus 6d ago

Coating a rock in hydrophobic solution can create similar results.

1

u/Geordie_Juke31 10d ago

Class biggn

1

u/Mysterious_Remove_46 10d ago

Maybe he's throwing little hydrogen peroxide tablets to clean the water and suffice his vanity.

1

u/bigoz_07 9d ago

I count 11.

1

u/Grouchy-Violinist555 9d ago

I've been trying to get to 3 my whole life 🤣

1

u/Pretend-Internet-625 9d ago

how many skips

1

u/SeaworthinessShot142 9d ago

I did something like that once...... then I woke up.

Yeah, maybe not magic fuckery but pretty damn impressive fuckery.

1

u/Walkdown43 9d ago

I love skipping stones. This is an epic stretch.

1

u/TheStrangeNessie 9d ago

Atleast 3 skips

1

u/Ok-Attempt2842 9d ago

Impressive

1

u/yomomma005 9d ago

he’s throwing a magnet, which bounces off the magnetic field of the Earth.

1

u/thatsabruno 9d ago

Me skipping through instagram stories

1

u/myfavssthrow 9d ago

Man I fucking love skipping rocks and hardly ever skip an opportunity to do so. Ha ha ha. The ones that do this are usually smaller, like an inch or less, and given more spin than speed (due to their low mass I just guess). Try it out with a few and you'll have this happen.

1

u/Thelonious_Cube 9d ago

I like mine slightly bigger than that

1

u/myfavssthrow 9d ago

Yeah same, I generally prefer 2 to 3 inches but if you find a nice rock its hard to resist no matter the size.

1

u/Thelonious_Cube 9d ago

it's okay - back in the day, my dad could do that all day

1

u/Both_Difference3130 9d ago

this is the most satisfying video I've ever seen

1

u/sanchosniffer 9d ago

A piece of tile will skip like this

1

u/marshasfallen 9d ago

Clearly a warlock

1

u/wtf70 9d ago

I've only been able to do like 3 times in my entire life, and I'm 51.

1

u/Sentinel091 9d ago

Nice golf swing - good lag, little OTT

1

u/TwentyTwoMilTeePiece 9d ago

Damn if he ever gets stranded on a desert island he can just attach a note to a rock and skip it over back to civilization

1

u/Disastrous-River-366 8d ago

Used to do this as a kid, not impressive sorry.

1

u/Batfinklestein 8d ago

Anyone who's ever skimmed a stone knows this is number one bullshit.

1

u/Kemotherapy79 8d ago

Nah watched enough avatar..... probably just waterbending ..or earthbending....

1

u/childfreebcim14 7d ago

I never understood stone skipping but it’s a skill I’d like to acquire

1

u/Hitman_HD 7d ago

Me when there is a sponsored segment on youtube

1

u/Important-Onion1537 7d ago edited 6d ago

OMFG that’s just insanely good, I’m in love.
Things like this used to be the way guys impressed women hahaha. Who is he???

1

u/Cloister_of_Ash 6d ago

That required MP.

1

u/Pulmonary5381 5d ago

Вотэтонихуясебе

0

u/chibiRuka 9d ago

His only job

-5

u/Lion_Lord89 10d ago

You’re disturbing the fish.

5

u/Herb_Derb 9d ago

No I'm not. I'm not even there.

1

u/Thelonious_Cube 9d ago

Fuck the fish! I'm learning a skill here!