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Dear Speed Stacks, "LilSoccerDude" says, "my gym teacher brought Speed Stacks for gym. I suddenly realized this is my sport because I have amazing hand-eyed coordination because I'm catcher in baseball and goalie in soccer. I think your web site is great and I love it!!!!!!!!!" (Dec 22-03)

   
Dear Speed Stacks, Ann says, "This is my first year of teaching cup stacking, and my kids [at Washington Elementary] are loving it! They were better jugglers this year, and I attribute that to their cup stacking. Thanks for having a company that is so easy to work with." (Oct 21-03)
   

Dear Speed Stacks, Anne says, "I just wanted to write a quick note to tell you how Speed Stacks helped my daughter in a difficult transition. We lived in Colorado and my oldest daughter loved the sport and couldn't get enough classes. Then we found we were being transfered to Georgia by my husband's work. Lisa was naturally reluctant to leave all her friends.

During her first week at her new school she came home bubbling about PE. Her second grade class was doing cup stacking in PE and they had a tournament. "They were only on 3-6-3, we haven't done the cycle yet. There was a tournament and I was the champion!" she told us at dinner that night. Apperently the other second graders were very impressed and she felt accepted by her class earlier than we'd thought she would.

Thanks so much for providing this interesting and fun opportunity to young people." (Oct. 6-03)

   

Dear Speed Stacks, Michael says, "I purchased a set of the Speed Stack cups for my son and received them a couple of weeks ago. He loves them and is the hit of his class and YMCA. [Two of the cups needed to be replaced]. Thanks to you, Speed Stacks, in promptly replacing two cups.

This is obviously an organization that truly "gets" customer service. I appreciate your response and dilligence in getting this to us. You have just made a 9 year old boy very happy." (Sept 29-03)

   
Dear Speed Stacks, Lara says, "My school had introduced these amazing Speed Stacks for gym class. I love them, it is so much fun! I was also told by our gym teacher that it could potentially help us in math and other things. Ever since we started Speed Stacks, I have been doing excellent in Math. I'm not sure if it is becuse of Speed Stacks, but they are still amazing!!!" (Sept 23-03)
   
Dear Speed Stacks, Jeff says, "I have been working there [at the Boys and Girls Club] for about two weeks now. I have introduced cup stacking, and the club members just love it! They are always asking when we can do cup stacking. The kids are getting better at it each day. The teens that come to our club even like cup stacking." (Sept 19-03)
   

Dear Speed Stacks, Trisha says, "I hadn't been on the site lately and I just went it is so cool!! I looked up [my zip code] on the speed stack finder and found robert poole middle school! that is where i go to school!!!" (August 17-03)

(See if your school is on Stacker Finder)

   
Dear Speed Stacks, Sherri says, "My students love cup stacking! It has been a cool addition to our curriculum." (August 17-03)
   
Dear Speed Stacks, Trisha says, "I took my Speed Stacks to my friends house because I had to babysit 3 little kids, 2 boys and one girl. And I tried to teach them how to Speed Stack. They love it and their mom said thank you to you the person who gave me Speed Stacks.
   
  She said it is because of you she gets an extra hour of quiet time because I teach them and they practice Speed Stacks for an hour when I babysit. It is so much fun. Thank you so much." (July 24-03)
   

Dear Speed Stacks, Darren says, "I just wanted to express my total satisfaction with your 'Customer Service' department and your company, especially a young lady named Christy. It is a rare commodity that a company take such great care in fulfilling their customers requests especially when they have no monetary gain to be made [in replacing a broken cup]. I salute you and your friendly, professional staff. Thank you." (July 10-03)

   
Dear Speed Stacks, Dolores Parker-Bell, Ph.D. says, "The Speed Stacks Packet [set of Speed Stacks, video and lesson plan] is so very helpful to the students. It causes them to think and strategize their next move. Thank you for such a creative item." (June 11-03)
   
Carol : teaching from Indiana
" I squeezed in a unit [of Speed Stacks] and the kids loved them. When we started back, the kids couldn't wait to get started. They love them and so do I. The program is easy (once you teach yourself) and the students love the challenge. You can really tell when they are focused. Thanks for this AWESOME product."
   
Pam : teaching from Iowa
"As a classroom teacher, I am excited to push cup stacking as it certainly can be done by anyone and with whole family participation. Plus, the brain benefits that accompany it can only be helpful to other areas of academia, as well as life-long brain enrichment exercise."
   

Dear Speed Stacks, Sereena says, "Hi, I just wanted to say that Speed Stacks is the coolest thing ever in the history of sports (i think so) and even while I'm typing this,
Speed Stacks has helped me improve because it has helped me improve my
typing. I think that you should keep cup stacking going on forever. Thank you." (Apr 21-03)

 
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Dear Speed Stacks, Dean says, "I THINK THAT SPEED STACKS ARE AWESOME! WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT THEM IN
P.E., AND I THINK THAT THEY ARE SOOO COOL! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!" (Apr 8-03)

   

Dear Speed Stacks, Janet, teaching in Montana says, "We had a Community Health day at the Mall in Helena in March. Speed Stacks was the hot event of the evening. In this evening young and old were very busy with non-stop action - the cups have been well used.

I know that we have made a difference and because of your product, make a difference in students', as well as adults', lives.

I believe in your product. I have a special needs son and he loves the cups as well. My son who is in 6th grade has shown a definate change in his grades and he uses them every night." (Apr 8-03)

   

Dear Speed Stacks, Nancy, (Children's Director at Grove Avenue Baptist Church) says, "I purchased 5 sets of Speed Stacks and 1 set of minis at the Children's Pastors Conference in Atlanta. My intention was initially to use them for the time between Sunday School and church... so I set them out and trained one other person... and we started training the kids (1st -5th Grade).

It was unbelievable! It was like watching a wildfire spread. They did not want to stop! We put them back out while waiting for parents. Parents literally had to peel their kids away from those stacks! Thank you for such an excellent product...and thanks for introducing them at CPC! (Mar 23-03)

   

Dear Speed Stacks, Donna says,
"I thought you might like to see the result of your hard work from the summer NDAHPERD conference. The newspaper article [read the full article] was done during the Student Council representative assembly in Bismarck where over 1,000 students attended. The girl featured is a student at St. Mary's HS that was at the Speed Stacks session you did at NDAHPERD." (Mar 13-03)
   
Dear Speed Stacks, Kristen says,
"I have speed cups i use them every day am so happy i found out about speed cups." (Mar 12-03)
   

Dear Speed Stacks, Heather says,
"Hi, I love cup stacking! It has really helped me with my typing. It has also helped me with using my left hand. I have the mini cups. I got 28 seconds on the cycle, is that good or bad? On the bigger cups I usually
got up to 50 seconds or even a minute. It was really embarassing. Is that good or bad?" (Mar 11-03)
   
We are thrilled to hear how Speed Stacks and the sport of cup stacking have helped you with your typing and use of your left hand! 28 seconds in the Cycle using the Minis IS pretty good! Most kids think that the Minis are harder to do than Speed Stacks.
   
             
       

Dear Speed Stacks, 'NewYorkAngel' says,
"I love speed stacking, it is is cool. It is fun. I think it is easy to learn. I learned it in just 2 days. I love Speed Stacks. It is super fun to do during free time.

I think stacking is super cool. I think people over the world should find out about speedstacks. It would be cool if there were t.v to order them or to learn how to do it." (Mar 10-03)

   
Dear Speed Stacks, Carolyn says,
"I taught the Kindergarteners today and they were quite elated. It is an eye opener when the children have a difficult time using their weak hands. The more we do the Speed Stacks the easier it is for them to use both hands. I had a 5th Grade Boy going on vacation come into the gym at recess to learn the lessons he was going to miss. I love teaching this activity!" (Mar 10-03)
   
Dear Speed Stacks,
"Cups are awsome! Thanks for making cups.I have 5 sets!!" (Mar 8-03)
   
Dear Speed Stacks, 'spongebob' says,
"hey i love cup stackin."
   
Dear Speed Stacks, Sasheen says,
"I luv Speed Stacks. I have all of the speed stacking stuff and i am almost as good as Emily."
   

Dear Speed Stacks, Reeno says,
"Hello again , I am just saying hi and I decided to tell you how i startin learning about Speed Stacks!

I was hearing about "cup stacking" all throughout the school and on my gym day.

I experienced the thrill of a lifetimme!!!! My gym teacher Ms. Pesce and I are very close so we started looking in to this and really liked it. So that is how I learned about the 12 awesome cups!"

   

Dear Speed Stacks Katie says,
"I am age 11. I live in Moody, Alabama. I love cupstacking! I think I really good at it too. In fact Roger Washburn wrote me a letter after talking to my cupstacking teacher Ms. Green. He was at a confrence at a hotel. I will truely treasure this letter.

One of the things he mentioned in this letter was that he saw an artice that I was in for cupstacking in our local newspaper. It was
called "A New Way of Learning." I think that is SO true. I really have good hand and eye cordination now.

I hope you enjoyed my letter. I had fun writing it."

   
       
   

Dear Speed Stacks Susan says,
"Hi, I have to share my story. My friend is the PE teacher at the elementary school in the town where him and I grew up. I had a brain tumor removed 8 years ago on the left side of the head in the motor reflex area.


My recovery has been a great sucess story and each day I have more wonderful experiences that occur.

Just before the holiday vacation, I was up at the school and watching the children working with your "Speed Stacks". I was amazed to watch and learn from the children. My friend then asked that I try to
stack with the children. We learned that my ability to stack was not good. I have been working and improving and hope to find that this will improve more areas for me (especially my golf swing, which was one area exremely affected by my surgery).
I am very anxious to share this with my Neurologist at Henry Ford Hospital who is looked upon as one of the Top in the country."

   

Dear Speed Stacks, Tiff says:
"Hi, I love using Speed Stacks. They are so cool! I am going to get some.

Thanks for making such cool things."

   

Deb : teaching in Maine
"I knew I thought it was fun but little did I know that the frenzy that has formed at our school would take place. The kids LOVE it.
We are on a week's vacation right now and the kids begged me to continue Speed Stacks after vacation.

They are racing against their friends against the clock. One student betters another's score and the competition officially takes off. Kids are doing the 3-3-3 in 3.6 seconds and the 3-6-3 in 5.0 seconds. That's a great start. On top of that, my students (grades k-5) started asking about getting some for themselves. So I put the offer out to them. Last week I placed an order for 82 stacks and have more orders ready to go out next week. Ieven had teachers buying them for their classrooms.

Once they heard all the kids buzzing they came down to the gym to check it out. They now understand that P.E. is more than just playtime. Parents have come in and gotten down on the floor to play with the kids. I've been teaching 15 years and this has never happened. THANK YOU!!!

I can't thank you enough for bringing this sport to our conference. Until people try it, they don't realize all the benefits that can take place by cup stacking. I hope you will be back again next year so more
people can get involved. It's a wonderful experience!"

   

Eloise : teaching in Wyoming
"I was introduced to Speed Stacks today by our PE teacher who wants me to use them in our spec ed room...

You are so right in saying that cup stacking is for students of all ages....I am in my 50's and am pursuing a 2nd degree at the University...I am really impressed with cup stacking, so simple yet so challenging... and if I CAN learn it ANYBODY can."

   
Dear Speed Stacks, Vanessa says:
"I just tried your game today at gym class, it was fanstastic! Now I am totally in love with Speed Stacks!You see I'm a quick learner, so I learned a 3 stack and I also learned a 3-3 today.

Then my gym teacher Ms. Murante, had us do a contest of who could stack the fastest. So then I won for all the 4 times we had the contest!
"
   

Dear Speed Stacks,
"Gym teachers need to go get different cups for your school. The more you get, the happier your students wil be. Because anybody can cup-stack, even kids who aren't athletic. THat's the fun in doing it. You don't have to run, or jump, just stand up and start stacking! It's the best!!"

   

Dear Speed Stacks, Rebecca says:
"Cup-stacking is really cool.You have to try to go super fast AND make sure none of your cups fall. Sometimes it's hard, and
sometimes it's easy. But it's always fun.

I love how fast my hands move. It's like
my hands are moving so fast that their gonna fall off!"

   
Dear Speed Stacks, Michelle says:
"I love your product! Our school bought some and we have races all the time in my PE class. They're so fun! I think that you should have a set of multi colored cups. That would look so cool. I think that this
should be an Oylipic sport. I'm the fastest in my class and with more practice, who knows, maybe I (I'm not athletic) could win a medal someday! Thanks again for such a cool product. Please keep me informed
about new colors, compitions, etc."
   
Patricia : teaching in Washington state
"In my whole teaching career, I have had few activities that have keep my students so engrossed and totally active for 30 minutes as the lessons with Speed Stacks."
   
Dear Speed Stacks, Amanda says:
"I found out about speed stackers a few weeks ago at school. At school there was talk about what we do and people were liek oh all you did is learn how to stack cups. Everyone thought that was a stupid thing, I did myself. But when i walked in and i got a set of cups I still had the thought. My gym teachers turned on the tape and you should of seen on how quickly my class got into them. Quickly everyone was challenging
other classmates to see who could get a 3-6-3 stack upstacked and downstacked first. Everyone left the room with laughter and a smile. Some kids were able to get the cups quickly others like my firend weren't so quick. But in the end every had a great time."
   

Susan : teaching in Kansas
"I just love the cups, every classroom uses them. It has made a big difference in our children - I just can't tell you, thank you, you are helping kids all over."

   
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