Sport, Speed, Cup Stacking

31.8.08

World Record SpeedStacking

Yoz....Ready for some amazing world record speedstacking...check this out and stay close to the clip..it really fast

Former Champion - Emily Fox






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30.8.08

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...


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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.

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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

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