When Bob Fox, a juggler and former school teacher, first saw sport stacking on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1990 he recalls thinking: “This is upside-down juggling.” Then he forgot all about it. Fast forward 16 years. Mr Fox, 48, is now president of Speed Stacks, a company he founded in 1998 to make and promote products for sport stacking.
Sport stacking is a popular pastime based on a simple concept: stack a dozen specially designed plastic cups into predetermined sequences to form pyramids and then unstack them as fast as possible. An electronic timer counts the seconds for the whole procedure. Mr Fox refers to it as “a track meet for the hands”.
