Last time I mentioned being on national TV. Here’s a glimpse of what it was all about. After I won the 2005 World Championships in the Cycle Stack, I was asked to come to the Maryland State Championships where a crew from “Inside Edition” would be filming.

I flew into Washington, D.C., and got to see the Washington Memorial, the Capitol Building, the White House and Smithsonian Museum. The next day I went to the Maryland State Championships. First, I helped judge the preliminary rounds for some of the stackers. Then “Inside Edition” interviewed me for 30 minutes.

After the interview, they asked me to “stack until I got it perfect.” In just a couple tries, I got an 8.36 in the cycle. Then during the competition they brought me to a table to try to beat Emily Fox’s overall world record of 7.43 seconds. I did OK, but couldn't’t get below 9 seconds on my three attempts.

At the end of the day, I got to hand out awards to the kids who won.

A few weeks later when the story aired nationally on “Inside Edition,” I learned that TV can be weird. They do a lot of editing. Even though I was interviewed for 30 minutes and Matt Reed from Speed Stacks was interviewed for 30 more minutes, none of our comments were shown. Still, they did show me stacking for about five seconds and mentioned my name as world champ—so that was cool. The whole story on “Inside Edition” was about two minutes long but the camera crew was there for more than five hours!

On my most recent trip, I traveled to Nova Scotia to demonstrate at a Health & Physical Education. conference. Nova Scotia was pretty awesome. We visited a giant pumpkin farm where one pumpkin was 998 pounds! We also went to the pond where hockey was created, called Long Pond.

It’s cool to rack up those frequent flier miles and spread the word about sport stacking. Stack Fast! Until next time. . ."