Steven Puruganan is World Sport Stacking Champ
Written by Ms. Confuse on Friday, August 22, 2008
A ten-year old Filipino boy in the U-S is a multiple world record holder in the latest sport craze in America - Sport Stacking. Steven Purugganan of Longmeadow, Massachusetts holds two world records which he set by winnng the World Sport Stacking Championships in Denver, Colorado. Watch the record breaking victory of Steven on Youtube.
Sport stacking (formerly known as cup stacking and commonly known as speed stacking) is an individual and team activity played using plastic cups. It originated in the early 1980s at a southern California boys and girls’ club and received national attention in 1990 on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. The sport was invented by Wayne Godinet. He was the man who invented the first formations and gave the name to the Cup stack (Karango Cup Stack).
Shortly thereafter Godinet formed a group called Cupstack. Later he worked together with the physical education teacher Bob Fox. Early competitions were held in 1998 in Oceanside, California and Denver, Colorado. Later Bob fox developed the sport and invented new formations and competitons, he also invented the annual World Sport Stacking Championships and founded Speed Stacks.
Participants of sport stacking upstack and downstack cups in pre-determined sequences, competing against the clock or another player. Sequences are usually pyramids of three, six, or ten cups. Proponents of the sport say participants learn teamwork, cooperation, ambidexterity and hand-eye coordination.
Tournaments are governed by the World Sport Stacking Association. In 2004, the WSSA changed the activity’s name from cup stacking to sport stacking in an attempt to give it “immediate identification as a competitive sport.”
In the 2008 WSSA World Sport Stacking Championships, Steven won three titles, 2 in world record time.
Cycle Champion: Steven Purugganan, 10, time 6.21 sec, New World Record
3-6-3 Champion: Steven Purugganan, 10, time 2.34 sec
3-3-3 Champion: Steven Purugganan, 10, time 1.86 sec, New World Record
Doubles Cycle: Timo Reuhl & David Wolf, time 7.65 sec, New World Record
Timed 3-6-3 Relay: TeaM2 Germany, time 13.19 sec, New World Record
Team 6-12-6 Champions: Chris Patterson & Reece Gregory, Australia, time 10.34sec. Australian record.
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