Posted on 03/09/2005 9:10:28 AM PST by Willie Green
Listen up, sports fans. There's a new sport that's growing in popularity. It can be played alone or in teams, it can improve your hand-eye coordination, and you don't need a bat or a ball; all you need is a cup.
Well, 12 cups, actually.
Sport stacking, the official title of the sport of cup stacking, is making its way to elementary schools in the Pittsburgh area.
Competitive stacking, using regulation cups that resemble the plastic tumblers you might use on a picnic, has been on the rise for the past 10 years. There are world records and world champions, as in any other sport, and, as in any other sport, there are physical benefits. The goal of sport stacking is not height or size, but speed.
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Someone's got too much time on his hands.
Crab soccer? Huh? Perhaps I know it by another name?
Do margarita glasses count? If so, I am the new world champion. LOL
They were outsourced.
They play those games in India now.
You wouldn't be referring to "marshmallow races" now, would you?
I guess cup stacking seems like a port to the video game generation.
(I knew some girls who engaged in cup stuffing in high school.)
Hee. This is actually a pretty cool thing to watch...if you're wearing earplugs. Those plastic cups getting banged around at top speeds is jarring on the ears. I think this is the modern equivalent of "jacks".
should read "sport".
My word, I must have been culturally deprived when I was a kid. Nope. Not heard of that either. Geez, I gotta get out more!
Perhaps.
It's an indoor version of soccer that gym teachers had us play whenever they couldn't think of anything else on the spur of the moment. It's played just like soccer, using the same soft, balloon-balls that they use for dodgeball. Only instead of running after the ball to kick it, you had to be sitting on the gym floor and scuttle around like a "crab" using your hands and feet. (You weren't allowed to raise your butt off the floor to go faster, you had to slide) Plus, just like in soccer, you couldn't use your hands to catch, throw or bat the ball -- you had to kick it.
Maybe you called it something else.
sport, huh? That'll build up their wind.
Got it. We stuck mostly to dodgeball during bad weather outside. Thanks.
I helped my Rugby club host a under 19 girl's rugby clinic, and during lunch they were doing this thing where they slam the cups on the table and clap their hands and pass the cups to some sort of rhythm. They were really in to it. The other guys who were there from my club had never seen that either. Maybe cups are big now.
suitable for crowded schools with not enough gym and playground space. Like the parochial school my son went to for kindergarten and first grade. We bought him his own set of cups. Boring. We ended up taking him out of the school because he was so cooped up all day he was unhappy all the time and we did not want him to hate the Church.
anyway if your school starts pushing these things watch out. Children need room to run.
Mrs VS
Would beer cans count?
Only if you drink and flatten 'em on your forehead first.
>> Sport stacking, the official title of the sport of cup stacking, is making its way to elementary schools in the Pittsburgh area. <<
Those crazy kids!
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