Fucking Bloody Hell: They've been stacking cups since the 1980s. [View All]

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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