Extreme Sports: Speed Stacking
Continuing my occasional series on weird and wonderful “extreme” sports, I’ve just discovered that there’s a world record award for stacking paper/ plastic cups. Watch and be amazed…
And if this is the sport that has captured your imagination, you can find over 5,000 more videos showing Speed Stacking on YouTube…
There is also an official body for this sport, The World Sport Stacking Association (WSSA), which “promotes the standardization and advancement of sport stacking worldwide. This association serves as the governing body for sport stacking rules and regulations and provides a uniform framework for sport stacking events, and sanctions sport stacking competitions and records.”
You can get all the gear you need to take part in this international sport (eg cups, timers etc) and find out more about joining teams across the world at Speed Stacks.
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Mon, August 25th, 2008 - Author
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August 25th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Would probably be great exercise for building massive forearms, Popeye-style? :P
December 2nd, 2008 at 5:10 am
Sport stacking is an individual and team activity played using plastic cups. In the United States it originated in the early 1980s at a southern California boys and girls’ club and received national attention in 1990 on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. The sport was invented by Wayne Godinet. He was the man who invented the first formations and gave the name to the Cup stack. Shortly thereafter Godinet formed a group called Cupstack.
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