Throwing your phone without breaking it

Looping asks you to do what every phone maker tells you not to. The risk is real and it is yours. These habits make it small.

Choose the place

Over a bed or a sofa, always. A missed catch has to land on something soft.
Look up. A lamp or a low ceiling ends a throw early, and the throw only counts up to the bump.
Keep away from windows, screens, glasses on a table, and from anybody's face.
Outside, grass forgives. Concrete, water and balconies do not.

Prepare the phone and your hands

Keep a case on, ideally one with raised edges. A screen protector costs less than a screen.
Dry hands. Sweat, hand cream or greasy fingers turn a catch into a drop.
Take off whatever sticks out of the phone: a grip ring or a strap changes the spin and catches fingers.
For your first throws, hold it by the edges, with both hands.

Build up slowly

A throw thirty centimetres up with a single turn is already ranked. Start there, and add height or spin only when ten catches in a row felt easy.

Spin comes from the wrists, not from height. A low throw that spins fast beats a high one that turns lazily, and it is much easier to catch.

Catch well

Watch the phone, not the screen. The score waits for you.
Follow it down with your hands and close them as it arrives, the way you would catch an egg.
If the throw goes wrong, let it fall on the bed. Lunging for it is how fingers and furniture get hurt.
The result tells you how the catch went, from a gentle landing to “Ouch”. Aim for gentle.

With friends

One thrower at a time, the others at arm's length and out of the way of the phone.
In party mode the phone belongs to one person: its owner decides how high it goes.
Tired or tipsy hands drop phones. Stop when yours are.

If it falls anyway

It happens. Check the screen, the camera lenses, and that the case is still on. Looping insures nothing: you play at your own risk, as the legal notice says. The bed is what saves phones: keep playing over it.

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