Speed stacking originated at a Boys & Girls Club in California in the 1980s, and now has its own governing body, the World Sport Stacking Association, which hosts national and international ...

This new craze, called speed stacking or sport stacking, is measured in seconds, not minutes. There’s a sport stacking whiz from Springboro, Minds in Motion fifth-grade student Dominick Ritucci.

Speed stacking is an individual and team sport in which competitors have to stack and unstack 12 specially designed plastic cups in a pre-determined sequence.

They are introducing sport stacking to schools, since studies have shown that games that improve coordination also enhance abstract reasoning and other abilities needed for taxing school work.

He founded a company called Speed Stacks that took the sport to the masses. “When I first became passionate about sport stacking in 1995, a lot of people would hear about it and scratch their heads.

Speed stacking was called cup stacking until a name change in January that Bob Fox says more accurately represents the activity.