Originally a globally popular speed sport, speed stacking has recently been scientifically validated for its "low barrier, high benefit" characteristics, making it particularly suitable for seniors.

Most sports are actually absurd. Golf involves hitting a tiny ball into a hole hundreds of yards away. Soccer is based on the idea of what if we didn't use our hands. Speed stacking — if you really ...

Sampson Elementary teacher Charlotte French prefers the nontraditional approach to teaching physical education, so when she first saw a little girl stacking plastic cups in a fury at a table while at ...

Five seconds is barely enough time to say “Guinness World Record.” But that’s all the time that it took Clemmons native William Orrell to set one. His hands a blur, Orrell beat his previous world ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WVEC) -- The clock, concentration, coordination... the cups! Welcome to the sport of speed cup stacking. "It is a sport," said 17-year-old speed stacker Matthew Hill. "It promotes ...

CHAPMAN - When Jayden Dvorak first saw his physical education teacher introduce speed stacking, he wasn't impressed. "I thought it was dumb at first," Jayden said. Dalton Stout was equally ...

Speed stacking was started in 1999, with the competition side starting in 2006, but 8-year-old Neev has taken the sport to an entirely different level. He’s only been speed-stacking for about a year. ...

Belvedere Elementary School held a speed-stacking tournament recently. Winners include: Division Blue Individuals 3-3-3 Stack -- First Place, Kaleigh Thomas, 3.88; Second Place, DeJuan Bell, 4.33; ...

VIRGINIA BEACH - Second graders at Three Oaks Elementary School were among students at five schools in Virginia Beach playing speed stack and part of a nationwide effort. Speed Stacking is a skill ...

It was lunchtime at the first Vermont Family StackFest competition at Camels Hump Middle School in Richmond. A crowd of kids and adults were gathered in the cafeteria, munching on hot dogs and baked ...