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| Our History: | Bob Fox, the founder and president of Speed Stacks, Inc. | ||||||||||||||||
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Sport stacking originated in the early 1980's in southern California and received national attention in 1990 on a segment of the "Tonight Show", with Johnny Carson. That was where it first captured the imagination of Bob Fox, who was then an elementary classroom teacher in Colorado. Bob Fox says, "When I first became passionate about sport stacking in 1995, a lot of people would hear aboutit and scratch their heads. Stacking a sport? The only way to explain it was to show them firsthand — sport stacking is truly something you have to see to believe! I absolutely love the challenge of turning skeptics into believers, and the list of stacking enthusiasts grows every day." |
Bob is passionate about the sport of sport stacking. He is a former classroom and Physical Education teacher. "Im excited about sport stacking, because it helps promote hand-eye coordination, ambidexterity, quickness and concentration -- skills needed to excel in most any sport. When students are stacking, theyre using both sides of their bodies and brains to develop skills where using both your left and right hands is important." Contact us to talk about introducing sport stacking to your school or organization today! Call Toll Free at 1-877-GOT-CUPS (468-2877). |
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Speed
Stacks spreads nationally. Bob started travelling across the country to present stacking to fellow PE teachers, and in 2000, after 17 years of teaching, he decided to leave his school district to devote full time to Speed Stacks. And the sport’s popularity continues to grow exponentially. As of Spring-2005 more than 12,000 schools have a Speed Stacks program. Speed Stacks representatives present at the states and national conferences of AAPHERD. Please visit our booth and sign up for a Workshop when we come to your state. Seeing is believing. |
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What
does sport stacking do? For teachers and parents, we’ve always touted hand-eye coordination, quickness and ambidexterity. We now can substantiate those claims. A university study by Dr. Brian Udermann, currently at the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse, confirms that stacking improves hand-eye coordination and reaction time by up to 30 percent. Sport stacking helps students develop bilateral proficiency equal performance on both sides of the body. By increasing bilateral proficiency, a student develops a greater percentage of the right side of the brain, which houses awareness, focus, creativity and rhythm. Stacking helps train the brain for sports and other activities where the use of both hands is important, such as playing a musical instrument or using the computer. Sequencing and patterning are also elements of sport stacking, which can help with reading and math skills. Who would have guessed that something so simple and fun could be so effective? |
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It, Believe It, Teach It! |
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Speed Stacks is proud to be "the Leader in Sport Stacking" and to serve as a resource to students, parents and PE teachers across the country as they develop sport stacking programs. Speed Stacks takes great care to assure the products we offer are affordable, well-made and totally backed by quality customer service. Our products are guaranteed, and we’re just a phone call or e-mail away if you have questions. |
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