The incredible sport of cup stacking, explained
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- Опубліковано 24 січ 2017
- Sport stacking, cup stacking, speed stacking - whatever you call it, this sport is mesmerizing to watch. Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more: / philedwardsinc1
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how the hell do u coach this? "go faster..ok good...now go faster"
I asked Mark the same thing basically - it's a good question!
He said a lot of it is knowing how to mentally support the players - some kids need someone to help them before going into a big match, while others might want everybody to back off.
The rest is technical stuff - so, for example, he might advise changing up a stacking style if a technique isn't working. He also told me that sometimes they'll watch a stack in slow motion to see where the pain points are.
-Phil
what a time to be alive
That's crazy
Mr. J1S I just got on the team. there's a lot more than speed to it, there's also consistency and focus, as the cups fall over easily
It must be really hard for you to expand your narrow view of sports from football to this. 😀
why is there a distinction between stacking for man and woman?
Axel sypkens smit good question
Men set faster times, like any sport men are invariably better so separation is needed (facts might trigger some SJWS)
Axel sypkens smit no good sport puts men and women together
***** Besim Smakiq I get that for sports were strength or running decide the game but it seems like men and women should be equally good in this sport
Axel sypkens smit scientifically proven-men have better hand eye co-ordination(nothing to do with feminism or gender inequality)
the sound of cup stacking
So nice
Imagine convincing your parents to let you to stack cups with grown men in a church basement
Lol believe it or not, but we spent a month doing this in gym class .. A piece of advice: don't do this with metal cups
My gym class too I was actually really good at it
You don’t say?!
bruh metal cups is how you train.
Same
Lol
These are the best videos that Vox are known for.
Not the political bias covering which caused them to lose credibility
*lose
ahdoah Hsieh People like you decided to lose credibility on them just because they said something that was different than your point of view
They didn't lose credibility. They present facts and are mostly liberal which is fine. They never claimed to be politically neutral but stupid conservatives keep coming to complain that they should drop their political leaning.
ahdoah Hsieh stfu just because they don't say exactly what you want to hear they lose credibility? No.
I think it's important to keep it neutral. Unless you base your channel of a certain view. Just because it appeals your to opinion, doesn't mean it should be there ether.
"hours and hours of practice"
lmao that's a HUGE understatement
More like your whole spare time
Even I spent hours today stacking 12 plastic cups. Yes it is hours today
As a cuber, I’ve always thought of sport stacking as pointless, but this video makes it seem as sophisticated as cubing.
as a cuber speedstackers probably feel the same lol
as someone who does neither cubing or stacking, they all seem absurdly pointless.
@@pyronix as long as whoever does them enjoys them, no hobbies are pointless.
cap
Although i wished speedcubing was as easy to teach as speed stacking
For example: I the word algorithm sounds far more intimidating then stacking cups XD
there's a male and female stacking championship? Why? Why not just mix? Its just....Stacking
cubing is completely dominated by men yet they still have neutral comps. what is your point
men and women are biologically different so it would be unfair to pit them against each other with a sport that is so physically involving when compared to speed cubing which is mostly finger work.
because men are better than women even in "sports" when strength isnt an advantage. Its kinda like competitive shooting. Men blow women outta the water in that. Men have better reflexes ect.
men and women typically have different hand sizes tho. don't know if it impacts anything
They had it mixed until 2010, so that it would be fair for females to get awards. back then it was always male than female back in the days. It's separate and it's better
Vox covering what really matters
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John: Hey man, you wanna catch a movie tonight?
Steve: Nah, I'm gonna stay home and stack cups.
John: .....
Yep
I've always found this sport fascinating! I remember seeing infomercials in the mid-2000's (when I was a preteen) selling cups. A few friends bought some and we played with them. It wasn't long before we moved on from the fad, but I never forgot about them. All these years later, I'm glad to see cup stacking is alive and well!
I'm sorry, but bottomless cups are not cups, they are glorified tubes which are narrower at one end. Real cups are capable of containing drinks too which is what cups are meant for in the first place.
you must be fun at parties
he is - without him only the floor would have something to drink xD
Eh, I think calling this a "sport" is a stretch, but using equipment designed for it is fine. The swords used in sport fencing are a long way removed from the actual weapons used during the renaissance and pre-modern eras that they're supposedly based on. This is just the same thing.
Cool.
One reason why they have holes is so that air can escape from the cups as they are stacked. If they didn't have the holes they couldn't be stacked at all.
so this is a sport meanwhile esports are still be bashed
thunder2.0 IKR!
thunder2.0 you mean the other way around?
just what I was about to say
i'm a professional gamer but to call esport a "sport" is just fuking insane imo. not everything with a competitive and analytical element should be called a "sport".
and gamers have conditioned the brains to the limits of the mind. we call shooters athletes but there are fat shooters
I think they should improve their f2l look ahead
I agree
XD
Yay their is a cuber here
IKR, but their high TPS makes up for it XP.
Yay a cuber
I've been stacking for about 5-6 years now and this video describes the sport perfectly. I loved the last few points as well, because it's so true to what a satisfying stack is. Some stackers, like me, are also really picky about the sounds of cups when they're made with different types of plastic and I've spent hours combing eBay and Craigslist to get certain types of cups. It's a little bit ridiculous, to put it lightly.
To people saying it's a useless talent, isn't every hobby technically a useless talent?
no... maybe your hobbies.
Say that to bowling and golf while you're there.
Hey! GoHerping! Hey Alex!
My hobby is playing the piano and I don't think that it is useless.
This sport isn’t useless. It trains your hand-eye coordination, focus, sportsmanship, patience. Also doesn’t get you bored, mostly.
This is what I love about UA-cam in general and Vox in particular: 10 minutes ago I had no idea this even existed, and now I'm captivated. Thanks!
Benjamin Whipp That is what the internet should be, not a cesspool of hate.
Miitchell Whitmer Ikr
Benjamin Whipp Same
Benjamin Whipp really? You never did this in elementary school?
Yeah I’m almost 35 and never heard of this other than just casually stacking to build pyramids. I never heard of speed stacking until this video
Can we have a sport where I knock these down
Toddlers play that regularly.
So like, bowling? But you're the ball. And the pins are a wall of cups. That would be fun.
It's called "being a sore loser"
You were featured on Ryan flores video
Isn't that a carnival game. I believe it's called the "ball toss"
5:52 "..thats lead to blazingly fast and close times.."
Talk about the Rubiks Cube World Records
Mats Valk : 4.74 seconds
Feliks Zemdegs : 4.73 seconds
yusheng du....3.47
DO A RUBIKS CUBE STORY
Your wish was already granted...
ua-cam.com/video/XwNUmnDu1r8/v-deo.html
Did you know the Rubik's cube WR is already half a sec. shorter since you released that video? :)
Michal Málek it's 4.73 seconds... you might be thinking of the 2x2 WR
J9A23C - nope, they did the Rubik's cube video just after C. Burns did his 5,25s, if you take away half a sec. (and 2 hundreths) you will get current 3x3 WR :P
lmao stacking is for cuber-type people who are too lazy to learn algs xD
Wow! Great video vox!
I once wrote a school report on this and how muscle memory is involved. Currently, I'm the fastest in the state of colorado
AHHHH I did this when I was like 10. The nostalgia and pride are emerging in my heart! It was one of those things that I felt decently good at as opposed to other sports at which I always failed. So glad to see what a sensation it's become!
when the aliens come, some will be watching concert pianists and gymnasts, but most will be watching these sport stackers!👽🖖
Lol
And the rest are going to be doing their job, making humans into burgers "hey Phil! Get back to work!" "Sorry I can't I'm watching humans slam cups around" "godamnit Phil"
this is what 2008 economic crisis did to America
its started before that, in the 80s
rekt
My sides!
We ran into a lot of amazing sport stacking channels while researching this video - here's a few:
Zhewei Wu: Awesome stacking, including a lot of big names. Includes GoPro Stacking!
ua-cam.com/channels/sAFx6q22Vf4C3IteoJopmQ.html
William Orrell: The lion of Carolina (OK, we made that up). But he is almost certainly the top U.S. Stacker, and he has awesome cups.
ua-cam.com/users/GoldenYoshi88
Hyeon Jong Choi: Vox is US-based, but stacking is international. Hyeon Jong Choi is an amazing South Korean stacker who's also younger than the ones we featured (which is common in the sport).
ua-cam.com/channels/l9a3kL7JgpDWmAdhnszJgg.html
Josh Hainsel: The new 3-6-3 record holder!
ua-cam.com/users/hainsels
WSSA: The active channel of the sport itself.
ua-cam.com/users/theWSSA
Again, this is just a very small list and we'd love to know what we missed.
-Phil
Vox Awesome that you guys are going out of your way to show a more neiche sport and their channels
Vox make a video on armwrestling
Vox please make a video on the young world on Esports
Check out my youtube channel! I am a former Collegiate World Record holder and Team Usa stacker. Have lots of stacking videos on my channel and will be happy to answer any questions:)
Have you guys looked into FIRST robotics? It is a organisation promoting robotics to high-school teams. There are over 5000 teams worldwide, with competitions taking place before thousands of onlookers
I remember a long time ago in 4th grade where the PE teacher actually announce us to the sport and made us practice it. We would be graded on it and everything. But in my mind I was just like, is this really a sport?
By the textbook definition of what a sport is, yes, it is a sport.
PE stands for PHYSICAL education not sit there and stack cups
Sport: an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.
So by definition any competition involves a sport
@@jackspeckman3717 it needs as much skill as badminton, tennis or most things you normally call a sport
@@cubing7276 I’m saying it’s not physical
Lots of ugly comments here, I for one am truly blown away, wow by this level of technique, crazy.
you should see speed cubing
Lol so extra
Daniel Woodward ikr
@@TrueBluw yeah
Did anyone else do this in elementary school?
it's your boy guzma yes but not in school. I had to learn myself. every other school did it, and I was in 3 elementary schools!! but none of mine did it.
6th grade right here
Yuppp
I did it
if THIS is a sport, then eSports are definitely sport!
ErbiuMilan IKR
yep
Both are sport, but this is more, it makes you sweat.
(I suppport eSport, don't get triggered please.)
If a lot of people don't consider this a sport then it's even more likely they wouldn't consider gaming a sport 😂 then again, chess used to be in the olympics so anything is possible.....
ErbiuMilan cubing will be one too
cubing and speed stacking are cousins XD
Zenvy Cuber, yes they are.
Ikr
Haha.
don't even say that. cubing is so much better
I still don’t get stacking, it’s literally the same thing every time, unlike cubing
When I was a kid, I got really into cup stacking(around 2006-2010). I went to tournaments and even made it to the top 5 once against some of the top cup stackers in a couple states. I remember doing tons of talent shows and people watching in awe as I moved the cups at what seemed to them as insane speed, but to me was way too slow to compete in anything. I unfortunately had to stop because it stopped becoming fun, because I felt I was pushing myself too hard. I watched this video just to see how far cup stacking has gone, and it has definitely changed quite a lot in the past 10 years. When I started there was only one style of cup, the timers only went to hundredths of didgets(not thousandths), and the record for the cycle was somewhere around 6 or so, and UA-cam was not nearly used as much, mainly because it was rather new. I’m only 18 and I feel ancient in this sport. It’s really addictive once you get started in it, so if your young and got time to kill give it a shot!
*cup song by Anna Kendrick plays*
Sincerelyy Eccentric It wasn’t by Anna Kendrick.
Sincerelyy Eccentric Nope it wasn't by Anna Kendrick
Sincerelyy Eccentric it's not the cup song that thing is annoying I don't do it anymore it's stupid
Sincerelyy Eccentric at 700 bpm
I remember doing this in PE class in middle school. It was a ton of fun and I even bought a cup stacking set. Haven't done it in years but it was definitely one of the highlights of middle school for me. Great sport.
Same!
this video makes me happy cause i definitely know that they’ll have fond memories of that church basement later on. like the feeling of just being in a club room or a gym or anywhere with your friends after school hanging out trying to get better at a sport, it can’t be replaced
Awesome video thanks for all the clean info
It would be great to see a video like this one on racing and acro mini quads/drones. It's a great hobby and an emerging sport.
I tend to like these miscellaneous videos more than the serious stuff sometimes. Great dimension to the pieces about the patent too.
…why would this be a sport that needs to be separate for men and women…?
Because men dominate in sport stacking. I don’t know the biology but it was completely unfair and discouraging for women who stack to have to compete knowing that biologically they didn’t have a chance. It’s like basketball, pair a NBA player and a WNBA player and the NBA player will win 100% of the time
Huh
It might take some decades but in the end women would have been doing just as good as men if they had left it mixed...separating it just furthers sexism.
@@manuel0578 why? why would women be just as good as men in cup stacking. If they'd catch up in mixed championships wouldn't they catch up in separate championships
@@manuel0578 why it’s an individual sport a it being mixed or un mixed doesn’t effect the stacker.
I was introduced to this sport in 3rd grade by my P.E. teacher, I loved it ever since.
As much as i like with vox's political videos, i like these kinds of videos much more. THIS is what i subscribed for.
Fuzion u dumb
How? for voicing a genuine opinion?
y tho?
Agreed. People keep saying that Vox is inaccurate when it comes to politics.
They did explain speed stacking and cubing very well though. (I've stacked since 2010 and cubed since 2014)
Heck, I subscribed just because they did a good video about cubing.
P.S I'm usually fine with Vox's explanations, but people in the comments of the videos about politics disagree.
Fusion are you 12?
This is the only use I've ever had for UA-cam's 0.25x speed
Its also used for Rubik's cube competitions
Yeah
My aunt was a PE teacher when I was around 11 and started doing this. My cousins and I got really into it and when I was 12 I got second in state for the cycle for my age group. Those were the days.
Wilburbruh Those are the memories I’m creating for myself
As a cuber I can't see how people can do this ages on end unlike cubing this is literally the same thing
Conor Sheridan cubing is the same thing too... just more algorithms, but it's not infinite
Aaron Smith says the guy commenting on nearly every thread on here 😆 if I didn't know better I'd say a cup stacker dumped you at some point lol
Aaron Smith because I woke at 3.30am and couldn't get back to sleep,was bored as hell and happened to see your name in a few threads that was all lol
Tampa Bay Speedsolving is not the same as speedstacking. Speedsolving requires a lot more skills, to be a world class speedstacker you just have to practice one motion a lot of times until you can do it fast. With cubing, world class cubers memorize hundreds of algs, plan out their solve before starting, and while solving need to look ahead to optimize their move count. Both are pretty useless in the real world but how are those the same thing.
I'm a cuber, and I'm not sure how people can keep stacking for a long time, but to each his own I guess.
I can see it now "cup stacking the major motion picture"
Christian Lemus The is already a documentary called Stacker.
Aaron Smith major motion picture usually means it gets shown in theaters internationally.
oh god speed stacking brings back so many elementary memories. I still remember the first competition I had and it was at the place I recently graduated from (it was a school district competition btw).
I did this as a kid and it just randomly popped into my mind.
It was really fun actually.
so a business that makes cups developed a sport around it. Pretty smart.
This is the same as speedrunning videogames, but this one I don't understand. Doing the same thing with the exact same formations doesn't get really repetitive and boring? I can understand speedrunning and rubik's cube competitions since those have more things going on, with random elements, but can someone explain how this doesn't get dull overtime?
Aleksander for my experience playing it. feels nice to have them stack *smoothly*. but I can see why you say it can be boring because of there not much of a pattern or possible other change in the game.
Aleksander Vox should really do a vid on E Sports.
I have kept at it because of the community of stackers. I'm sure I would have quit stacking after a while if no one else did it. There is so much more going on than you actually see; it just comes with experience
It makes you sweat, has rules.
Speedrunning has rules. And it also has laws, and the trick is finding ways to circumvent those videogame laws ("I shouldn't be able to go through walls, but exploiting something I can run past it"). However the rules and laws change from game to game and even between playthroughts. Having the same few (few, as in fewer than other sports) rules all the time doesn't make it boring?
I used to do this but I never stuck to it for long. A high school student at our school caught my attention so I wanted to learn. Good thing that dude was kind and actually approached me to learn it. I never remembered what my fastest time was but I expect it was slow
I remember working at that address mentioned (which hasn’t changed in quite some time) when I was younger because my mom was one of their first employees. My brother and I would practice in our off time and they would even pay us to travel around the country to teach and demonstrate at schools and convention centers. Even at that time about 15 years ago it was still a debate whether or not it was a sport. Either way we did it because it was fun and we were getting payed. As for the long term aspects of starting at a young age, my brother and I became ambidextrous rather quickly and were soon playing hockey, baseball, and lacrosse both left and right handed. Thanks for the video, brought back some good memories.
clicking on this, I was expecting some weird frat thing but this is amazing.. theyre so fast.. damn
Oh my gosh!
I love the sound at the end (8:25) :) Well done!
Thank you for the great content VOX :D
This is really incredible! It may seem very simple but when if we are in their place, it’s not that easy. Thumbs up for you guys.👏👍
Sport stacking, but with glass.
I remember these things when I was younger. Like 10 or maybe even younger. Now I'm 17, and my friend reminded me of cupstacks. I decided to look up cupstacking videos, and I'm surprised that this video was uploaded this year.
As a speedcuber it's quite interesting seeing this sport that shares so many similarities with mine and is yet so different.
Love this! Glad to see this amazing sport getting the recognition it deserves :)
This sport brings so much progress to humanity. I'm proud!
No sports bring any progress to humanity
Directly
God the sound of the cups being re-stacked is sooooo satisfying to me for some reason.
I do sport stacking I want to thank you for making this it really inspires me
Sport stacking in PE? Wtf I want that
Katherine Ang I did it
Yeah we did this in gym class in 3rd, 4th and 5th grade.
dang it i miss my set. they broke while they were in storage when we moved houses. but it’s comforting to know it has evolved quite well now.
Yeah we remodeled and my cups where thrown out but now I just ordered a new set
The dexterity is astounding. Actions are smooth, which equals fast if you do it right.
If only kids would transfer these skills into stacking the dishwasher.
Mellow Yellow i know it's you mom
Any cubers here?
me
I know I'm late but yeah I'm a cuber
Me
Cubing is a lot harder, not to downgrade speed stacking but it's more of practice of dexterity and doing the same thing over and over again
Gabriel Lupisan I think I’d suck at speed stacking
My PE teacher had us do this when I was in 4th grade. My parents even got me a set, and I used it a lot. I'm a junior in college now. I kinda miss it.
YAY ZHEWEI WU IS HERE!!!
"He takes practice in a churches attracting the best stackers" Yeah "practice"
this is literally the only sport i understand
I bet you understand volleyball pretty well ;)
What about soccer all u do is kick a ball
@@xavierredden3343 Explain offside
(Fencing) *foil has entered the chat*
I find the last 2 sounds at the end of the stack incredibly pleasant for some reason
The hand-eye coordination, speed, and concentration for this is mind boggling 🤯😲
Where's speedcubing?!
"Speed stacking" like👍👍👍
"Speed cuber" comment👏👏👏
ace pogi gwapo I like both but I cannot do cubing
Cuber
Tech Dock same my focus is terrible for cubing
I never heard of that sport and it's the first time a learn something really new in a long time. Only time I saw stacking cup it was on some random video where the girl was using them to make music.
Thank you for the vidéo.
Nice video!!! Really nice
4:00 That’s cheating in speedcubing tho I wished it wasnt
During the credits, you sound disappointed with your time at the end of 5.238 seconds. But you're looking at it in entirely the wrong way--you were just 3.453 seconds short of setting a NEW world record!!!! That's what I'd be bragging about. *nodding* =) How many people can say that they were short a mere 3.453 seconds from a new world record?
2x2 rubiks cube WR is 0.49 and my best is 0.79
Omg I am 0.3 sec near the wr! :v
@@alejrandom6592 thats sarcasm right?
@@TrueBluw No its true the record is actually 0.49 seconds
@@Hello-jh1rq I was referring to the fact that he thought he was going to beat the world record
@@Hello-jh1rq r/wooosh
Oh my god i was obsessed with this as a kid. I won first place several times at my school and it was so much freaking fun.
That’s amazing I had only heard of speed cubing and had no idea there was a whole world of speed stacking out there. I’m excited to give it ago
This is absolutely a sport. The competition is unbelievably fierce. I used to hold world records for sport stacking. These kids, including my former-self, practice 2-3+ hours everyday, all year.
*B-but Vox. What about Muslim cup stackers?*
Döla Freundlich wat
Döla Freundlich the sport is growing in Arab countries, if that helps answer you :)
Döla Freundlich they don't have UA-cam channels though, most of them use instagram
Im a muslim cup stacker?
Buy the way, define "Cup stacker" do you define by time?, by recognition?
There are Muslim "Sport Stackers" in the middle east. I'm good friends with them. Some are good and some are bad.
You guys should do more sports like jiu jitsu fencing, speed solving Rubik's cubes, or any other strange yet cool sports
phil make's vox's best videos
2:18 “Amazing stackers like Melissa, and Mark”
*Mark drops them all over and over.* lmao
As a fellow stacker, when you go fast, it can take hours to get a clean time. You can’t get a clean and fast time every single time. It’s just not possible
8:13 that awkward moment
My gym teacher taught me how to cup stack. She teaches it when your in Kindergarten. And in first, second, third and fourth we do little things to help us. When you're in 2nd, 3rd, And 4th she can pick you for the team. At 2:15 we go practice. You practice everyday at school or at home. And near the end of the year you have a tournament where the whole school watches you. I was on the team. I went to the tournament. I won first place out of the 2nd grade cup stackers. There were 6 2nd grade cup stackers (counting me). Then one left. So there were 5 cup stackers. It was a good year.
Their f2l is a little slow but OLL to PLL transition look-ahead is on point
3:09 "the best stackers get drunk"
🤣🤣🤣
LOVE IT NOTIFICATION SQUAD!!!!
The sound of that is so satisfying.
i had forgotten about this until now. we did this in elementary school a lot
Why would this even become a thing? Is it a bit like that bottle flipping craze but taken to an extreme?
Speed stacking actually existed before bottle flipping was a thing
this looks more like a party trick to me, not a sport
Im Just Noel thank you, someone else actually has sense
Rahil Shah hahaha but gotta admit its preety cool to watch
Yeh for something i used to do in primary school lol
Im Just Noel both :)
seriously, how retarded these people are
I remember this front rain days in PE.. I was pretty good at it
Got into Stacking 2 years ago, fastest record for Cycle was around 9 or 8 seconds..? But this has inspired me to start it again, after I find it in my Garage