Sport Stacking for Instructors
Whether you're a Physical Education teacher, Nursery School teacher, youth
pastor, youth leader, classroom teacher, recreation leader or sports coach , the Speed Stacks Team has developed an
easy process for introducing Sport Stacking to your kids:
SPEED STACKS AND SCIENCE
Influence of Stacking on Hand-Eye Coordination and Reaction Time of 2nd
Grade Students
Dr. Steven R. Murray, Brian Udermann, John M. Mayer, Kenneth
Sagendorf - Mesa State College - Perceptual and Motor Skills, Spring 2004-
Summary: Sport stacking has been adopted recently by many physical
education programs to enhance rudimentary motor skills such as hand-eye coordination and ambidexterity as well as
quickness and concentration; however, no empirical evidence has been published to support these
claims.
Benefits of Sport Stacking
Sport Stacking levels out the playing field, encouraging students of varying athletic
abilities to compete. It allows for individual and team activites that are cooperative and competitive.
Additionally, Sport Stacking:
- helps develop motor skills, patterning, and hand-eye coordination
- promotes ambitexterity
- helps students develop bilateral proficiency
- encourages perseverence and practice
- is inexpensive to persue
- participants of all ages and abilities can stack
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