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Basic Stacking Information
- Introduction: The first day of cup-stacking is a DVD or smart board video if your students have not been previously introduced. The DVD, videos and other Sport-stacking items are available at the Speedstacks website. There are also many videos on You Tube.
Teach Stacking in order of difficulty:
- 3-3 Stack
- 3-3-3 Stack
- 6 Stack
- 1-10-1 Stack
Six Stack -up stack
- Start with 6 cups in front of you
- Take 3 cups with your right and 2 cups with your left
- Leave one cup down
- Spread the cups apart with your fingers
- Release the bottom cup of your right hand to the right of the center cup so you now have 2 cups left in that hand
- Release the bottom cup with your left hand to the left of the center cup
- Release the next cup from your right hand on top of the center
- Set the cup on in the left hand next to it
- Put the final cup on on top with right hand
6 Stack -Down stack
- Place right hand on top cup and your left hand on the second cup on the left
- Slide to the right with your right hand, at the same time slide left with your left hand
- Take the 3 cups in your left hand and the 2 cups in your right hand and put them in one stack of 6 cups
Partner Challenge:
- Sets of cups are needed for each students.
- Students sit in pairs across from each other.
- Teacher designates a stacking formation:
- 3-3-3-3
- 3-6-3
- 1-10-1
- Start in down-stack position.
- Stand up when up-stacking and down-stacking are complete.
- Teacher gives the accumulated time count after the first person is standing.
Around the Table
- (Set up tables so four people to six people are able to stack at the same time)
- Students stand behind a table in front of down-stacked cups.
- Teacher designates a stacking formation:
- 3-3-3-3
- 3-6-3
- 1-10-1
- After upstacking and downstacking –
- Rotate to the right and begin the next stack.
- Continue until everyone is back to their starting position.
Shuttle Relay
- Students stand in shuttle relay style.
- Cups are set up in the middle of the gym with one stack for each team. (in line with their team position)
- Teacher designates a stacking formation:
- 3-3-3-3
- 3-6-3
- 1-10-1
- On the signal, the first stacker runs to the middle and stacks up.
- Then they run to their teammates on the opposite end of the gym and give them a “five”.
- This stacker goes to the middle and down-stacks.
- Continue until everyone is back to the starting position, or…
- Set a time, such as 2 minutes and see how many stacks can be made in that amount of time.
Scooter Relay
- Students are lined up in teams in relay style with a partner.
- Each team has two scooters linked together.
- Each team has downstacked cups in the middle of the gym floor and at the opposite end.
- Two students from each team will take turns as the pusher and the rider.
- One partner from each team is sitting on the scooter, with feet extended forward
- The other partner (next in line) will be pushing.
- One set of 6 cups is on middle gym line.
- Three sets of three cups are at the opposite end of the gym.
- Students are pushed on the scooters to the center stack – up-stack the three sets of three.
- Then, travel to the opposite end and up-stack the 6 cup stack
- Now partners switch places and the new “rider” will down-stack the same set of cups.
- Return to the beginning of the line and pass the scooters to the next partners in line.
- Continue until everyone has had a turn up-stacking and down-stacking.