Fucking Bloody Hell: They've been stacking cups since the 1980s.

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Sport stacking originated in the early 1980's in southern California and received national attention in 1990 on a segment of the "Tonight Show", with Johnny Carson. That was where it first captured the imagination of Bob Fox, who was then an elementary classroom teacher in Colorado.

Bob Fox says, "When I first became passionate about sport stacking in 1995, a lot of people would hear aboutit and scratch their heads. Stacking a sport? The only way to explain it was to show them firsthand — sport stacking is truly something you have to see to believe! I absolutely love the challenge of turning skeptics into believers, and the list of stacking enthusiasts grows every day."

Bob is passionate about the sport of sport stacking. He is a former classroom and Physical Education teacher.

"I’m excited about sport stacking, because it helps promote hand-eye coordination, ambidexterity, quickness and concentration -- skills needed to excel in most any sport. When students are stacking, they’re using both sides of their bodies and brains to develop skills where using both your left and right hands is important."
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In 1998, Bob was asked to present sport stacking to Texas. After a tremendous response Speed Stacks, Inc. was born as a small home business designed to promote sport stacking and be a resource to physical education teachers. And the sport continued to grow.

Bob started travelling across the country to present stacking to fellow PE teachers, and in 2000, after 17 years of teaching, he decided to leave his school district to devote full time to Speed Stacks.

And the sport’s popularity continues to grow exponentially. As of Spring-2005 more than 9,860 schools have a Speed Stacks program.

http://www.speedstacks.com/company/history.htm

[derby378]

1. You know, GRAND THEFT AUTO also develops hand-eye coordination

Do you know how hard it is to change the station with one hand while gunning down rival gangsters with the other hand? While driving?!?

:silly:

[swag]

2. That sounds quite a bit less fucked up than cup-stacking,

for fucking out loud.

Try to get it into the schools, 'kay?

[CanuckAmok]

3. I went to Catholic School; we had Grail Stacking.

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[swag]

5. Sounds rather challenging.

[CanuckAmok]

10. we were usually the Host team.

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[swag]

11. I can see the headline in the archdiocese newsletter:

Grail Stackers Vie

[TheMightyFavog]

15. Not that hard with default controls, really.

The drive by controls are the q and e buttons, which are right nest to the forward control.

The radio changer is the mouse wheel.

[derby378]

31. Oh, suuuuure, if you've got the PC version

:silly:

[ET Awful]

16. Of course, you can't learn how to properly hire a prostitute then

beat her to death and steal her cash while stacking cups :P

GTA gives you real-world skills!!!! :evilgrin:

(and yes, that was :sarcasm: before someone attacks me for promoting the beating to death of prostitutes)

[ContraBass Black]

27. If you beat too many prostitutes, they won't service you.

How did I end up in this sub-thread?

[ET Awful]

28. Don't know how you ended up here, but welcome

:P

[bettyellen]

4. im dissappointed you didn't copycat my copycat...

i was hoping to see a swaghowl thread.
:cry:

[swag]

7. Don't want to step on your magic, bettyellen.

That kitty still yowlin'?

[bettyellen]

9. Oh, she wept with delight when I gave her a smile....

and she's sleeping soundly now.
;)

[sakabatou]

6. Now those are fast hands.

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8. It's nuts. What those kids do.

[jobycom]

12. Wow. I'm kind of impressed.

I'm not saying I want to learn it or would watch it on ESPN, you know, but maybe I'm a better person for having watched it. Face it, it was a more productive use of my time than this pointless post, and took about the same amount of time.

[swag]

13. Well, good point. While this post of yours may have touched my heart

and enriched my life, I don't imagine it got any cups stacked.

[jobycom]

14. Or unstacked. nt.

[jpgray]

17. Last time I did speed stacks my teeth-gritting ground down my bicuspids

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18. A couple bottles of Nyquil will usually take the edge off.

[DS1]

19. Stackers, now. Street Hustlers tomorrow. Which cup which cup

you got five dollars in one of these cups. Pick a cup any cup you saw me put the bill under one of them, buy two guesses and you're a sure winnah!

Only in some pissant ignorant evolution-is-just-a-theory school would this simpleminded bullshit come up.

I hate 'Murka

[swag]

20. Hadn't thought of that.

Maybe cup-stacking will bring back some of that old flavor to the strip-mall that Times Square has become.

A possible silver lining in the black cloud of cup-stacking.

[snooper2]

21. Yeah, all 15 of them...

Notice anybody in the bleachers in that video?

[swag]

24. Well at least Bob Fox is "passionate" about speed-stacking.

Come to think of it, record-holder Emily's last name is "Fox", not "Ross" in the original post.

Any relation, you think?

[skygazer]

22. Let me get this straight

Stacking cups (?) is a program in more than 9,860 schools but we have schools that can get no funding for silly things like --- oh, education, or the arts.

Well, that makes perfect sense. :banghead:

[swag]

25. In the immortal words of Charles Milles Manson,

"Yeah. Ain't it groovy?"

[no name no slogan]

23. Why not? They have "professional" eating

so I suppose stacking kind of makes sense? :crazy:

[swag]

26. They should have eating contests in schools too.

Make elementary school children eat hot dogs until they vomit.

[Initech]

29. Wow, and I thought Curling was the most boring sport known to man!

[Beausoir]

30. The pressure on my kids to join this has been unbelievable! Really.

For some reason I can't fathom, the two P.E. teachers at my kids' school are asbolutely over the top about this cup stacking thing.

Yesterday was my son's first "stacking" session. I let him do it because he really wanted to join. It's free, and I just can't see the harm in it.
So far, no one has asked us to buy anything.

I still can't figure this out. Why the big push for cupstacking?
Somebody must be profiting from this somehow.

The P.E. teachers are just salivating over this thing.