Golden Tips on SpeedStacking

The following tips are based on intense practice and researches from videos and feedback from my students who enjoy the challenge in speed stacking. Before you proceed any further, I will like you to first time yourself in any of the speed stack routine and then observe if there is any marked improvement after reading the following 4 golden tips

 

Base – This game is about building pyramids. Like any other type of great architecture construction be it Great Wall of China or the Egypt Pyramid, the base must be solid to withstand any slight knocks later. So to build a solid base, ensure the cups touch and close to each other

 

Gravity – As this name suggests, it always easier to go with than against gravitational force. As such, it will be easier to stack down than stack up. So remember to slide down lightly and not to force down the cups. Always be gentle to your expensive cups!

 

Hand – Obviously but not consciously by many, the main tools of this game are your hands, not the cups. Always start with your lead hand to pick the top cup. Place your hand on the sides and not over the tops of the cups.

 

Movement – The game is all about speed or timing. The right technique must be cultivated to ensure you can improve with constant practice. Adopt circular motion instead of back and forth or up and down. Both hands must be used at the same time. Try doing this blindfolded and you will be amaze that you can also perform stacking.

 

Practice – No one can win an Olympic gold medal without intense training and practice. Records are meant to be broken. You can be the next one if you stay focus and keep practicing. Remember to have fun and sportsmanship though. Cheers.

World Record SpeedStacking

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Former Champion - Emily Fox





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Rules...Guidelines

There are three main types of stacks in competition. All stacks can be made from left-to-right or right-to-left (individual preference), but the same direction must be maintained for both "up stacking" (setting the cups into pyramids) and "down stacking" (unstacking the pyramids and returning them to their nested position). Don't slam them, but let them slide. If you knock down a cup, you must downstack back to where you were, fix it, then you can upstack the cups again.

3 - 3 - 3

Uses 9 cups. Cups start in three nested stacks of 3. The stacker must create three pyramids of 3 cups each and then down stack the cups back into nested stacks of 3 in the order that they were upstacked

3 - 6 - 3

Uses 12 cups. The stacker must create three pyramids made up of three cups on the left, six cups in the center, and three cups on the right (3-6-3), then down stack the cups in the order that they were upstacked into their original position. Also used as the first transition of the Cycle Stack.

1 - 10 - 1

Uses 12 cups. The stacker begins with a single downstacked pile. He/she must take two cups off the top, turn one upside-down (stacker's choice), then upstack the remaining ten. The stacker must then tap the opposite sides of the single cups and take down the ten stack into a downstacked 3-6-3. This stack is only used competitively as the third transition of the Cycle Stack

Cycle stack

The most complicated stack is called the Cycle Stack. It involves a sequence which includes, in order: a 3-6-3 stack, a 6-6 stack, and a 1-10-1 stack, finishing in a down stacked 3-6-3.

Here a short video clip showing various types of stacking and also teaches you how to Speed Stack...enjoys...

Stacking Cups

Sport stacking can only be done with specially designed cups, made to prevent sticking to one another. Made of durable plastic, the cups have three holes in the bottom to allow air to pass through quickly when stacking the cups together, and are designed with eight ribs reinforcing a ledge inside to keep the cups separate when nested, so they can be quickly separated from each other when stacking. The official company for WSSA-approved cups is Speed Stack.

The WSSA only allows Speed Stacks to be used in competitions.

Special training cups called "Super Stacks" are also available. These heavier cups are made of metal and are to be used directly before competitions. The added weight is supposed to make the regular cups feel lighter, allowing the stacker to stack faster in competition.

There are also Mini Speed Stacks which are an inch tall, for a more challenging stack and for when full size cups won't fit in a given practice space.

What is Sport, Speed or Cup Stacking?

Sport, Speed or Cup Stacking is an individual and team activity played using plastic cups. It originated in the early 1980s at a Southern California boys and girls' club in United States and the sport was invented by Wayne Godinet. 

Participants learn teamwork, cooperation, ambidexterity and hand eye coordination performing upstack and downstack cups in pre determined sequences, competing against the clock or another player. Sequences can be pyramids or 3, 6 or 10 cups