Sport stacking

The Sport Stacking is a using sport of American origin of the plastic goblets. The goal is to pile up and unstack in pyramid the goblets as soon as possible according to a certain order. This sport was invented by Wayne Godinet, which shortly after set up a group named Cupstack . He worked then with a professor of physical education of the name of Bob Fox. Who is not other than the inventor of all the formations and the name of the Cycle Stack . Contests are held since 1998 with Oceanside, in California and with Denver, in the Colorado. The Stacking Sport can also be practiced in teams.

The Stacking Sport bore the name of Cup Stacking . But the WSSA (World Sport Stacking Association) changa the name in 2004 for Sport Stacking .

Goblets

The Stacking Sport can be practiced only with especially designed goblets. The official mark of goblets approved by the WSSA is Speed Stacks, concurencé by the mark Flashcups, especially used in Germany. The goblets are bored and have an edge inside, so that the air can pass so that they do not stick the ones to the others. To carry out the figure queen of the sport, the Cycle Stack , twelve goblets are needed.

Some expressions

Stacker = nobody practitioner the Sport Stacking
Upstack = construction of a pyramid with the goblets
Downstack = stacking of the goblets starting from a pyramid

Rules

3-3-3

Only 9 goblets necessary, are divided into 3 piles of 3 goblets, the goblets must be put in pyramid heap by heap on a side until another and must then be réempilés on the basis of the same side from where the first pyramid was built.

3-6-3

12 goblets are necessary. A heap of 3 on the left, one of 6 in the medium and one of 3 on the right. The principle is the same one as for the 3-3-3, it is necessary to put the 3 heaps in pyramid of a direction towards another, then the réempiler of the same direction.

6-6

12 goblets necessary, are divided into two heaps of 6. The two heaps must be put in pyramid one after the other and must then be réempiler in the same order. The technique used for the downstack of the 6-6 in the Stack Cycle is not the same one as that used for the downstack of the 6-6 only.

1-10-1

12 goblets are necessary. 1 on the left, 10 in the medium and 1 on the right. It is necessary to make a pyramid with the 10 goblets then the réempiler using the 2 goblets on the side so as to reform three heaps: 3-6-3

Cycle Stack

The figure queen of the sport. 12 goblets are necessary. It is first of all necessary to carry out the 3-6-3, then the 6-6 and to finish with the 1-10-1.

Records

In 2002, Emily Fox carries out a 7,43 seconds time to the Cycle Stack, one of the first records official of this sport. Since, its record was beaten several times but Emily Fox remains one of Stackers most known.

Official world records

Stack Cycle: 7,25 seconds: David Wolf, Germany
3-6-3: 2,65 seconds: David Wolf, Germany
3-3-3: 2,11 seconds: Timo Reuhl, Germany
Double Cycle Stack (team): 8,78 seconds: Robin Stangenberg and Stangenberg Hake, Germany

Not-official world records

Stack Cycle: 6,47 seconds: Yannick Zittlau, Germany

External bonds

World Sport Stacking Association
of the record of Emily Fox on YouTube
of the record of David Wolf (Stack Cycle) on YouTube
of the record of Robin and Colin Stangenberg on YouTube
of the record of Yannick Zittlau on YouTube

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