My name is Nathan Carter. I'm 18 years old. I'm from Wellington and I've just competed
at the New Zealand open sports stacking championship. So sports stacking is a sport that involves
12 specially designed cups and these cups you have to stack into pyramids. And there's
different sequences that you do different patterns. These are the different events that
we do in tournaments. And there's three main events. One's called the three three three
Ones called the 363. And the final one is the cycle. So the 333 involves up stacking three pyramids
each have three cups, and then down stacking them. The 363 is like the 333 except you have
to upstack a pyramid of six cups in the middle. And then the cycle involves three different
sections. A 363 a six six and then finally a one, ten, one.
Lydia: Am I right that it's looking like you might have broken some records?
What can you tell me? I yes, so I have, this tournament, broke the
overall national record for what's known as the 363 event in sport setting. And I was
very close to also breaking the National Cycle record. The three six three time I got
was 1.993 seconds, which is the first sub two second 363 in a New Zealand tournament.
How did you get into this? What led you to the sport?
Yeah, so about nine or so years ago, at my primary school there was this girl who was
doing stacking just as a fun little hobby. And she decided to show it to my classroom
and everyone got to try it out with her sets and I really really enjoyed it just really
clicked with me and so I asked her about with where she got the cups from and then a month
later I I found the cups and just started practicing Yeah, I've improved over this
time and and now here we are. Lydia: one of the best if not the best in New Zealand
Yeah, so what's
what's next what's the aim? So I know that they were trying to select the national team
from this event. Will you hopefully going to be part of that?
Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm very much hoping that I'll be selected for the 2020 World Championships
and that will be held in Singapore in April. So I'm going to be going to that
there will also be two more tournaments later this year in New Zealand. The Auckland regional
sports second championships in August and the Whanganui National Sports second championships
in September. Lydia: So I'm guessing for the World Championships
Are you just going to be practice practice practice and have you have you set a target
or an aim for yourself? Are you just trying not to put too much pressure on yourself
I generally try not to put too much pressure on myself. So I do enjoy practicing every
day it's it's definitely something for me that I can work at. And and I can set
goals for myself. So this next world's I'm hoping to make it into the final for all
three individual events and, and do well in those three events.