They've got to feel calm,
they've got to feel confident
and they've got to be composed.
"Don't make a mistake!"
"Do not make a mistake! Focus."
Smooth.
If you overthink, that's where it all goes wrong.
"No mistakes. No mistakes."
"Alright? Drill it in. No mistakes."
Every time they step up to a table,
it's like when David Beckham steps up and takes a penalty.
Don't make that mistake again yeah? No explosions.
Usain Bolt runs with his legs
but these kids go a hundred miles an hour with their hands.
Australia football game,
you might have a quarter and a half if you're having a bad game to get back into it
these kids have got seconds.
"Okay go stack, you'll be fine."
"Go stack."
I'm Molly Hallum
I'm the Australian captain of the Stackaroos
and I'm also the Singapore Open Female Champion.
I have been a six time individual world champion in my age group
and I've also held over 100 Australian and Victorian records.
I was six years old when I started and I've been doing it for 10 years now
I got the position of Australian champion when I was 12 years old.
"This is without slomo."
I actually introduced my dad to the sport.
So when I was at my school my teacher Mrs Jones,
she started stacking with me and I remember going home like:
"Dad I'm cupstacking and it's so cool!"
And then dad came to my first tournament and he really loved it.
My name is Coach Ty,
as I'm known in the stacking world, I'm the coach of the Stackaroos,
just like we have the Hockeyroos and the Socceroos,
we stack cups so therefore we're the Stackaroos.
Cup stacking in a nutshell
is 12 plastic cups stacked up in pre determined sequences, so in pyramids
and you're going at a 100 miles an hour,
so instead of running 100 metres, you're doing it with hands
but the beauty of it is, what I loved as PE instructor is the brain activity,
so you're constantly crossing the midline from one side to the other
while doing different things with your hands,
so therefore both of your hemispheres of your brain are working at the same time.
My friends think it's amazing.
They think that it's so cool that I've traveled, like every year I go to three different countries competing in it
She's the most traveled sports stacker in history,
no one has done the kilometres that she's done
This is team Taiwan, from the Asian open 2017.
Some of the kids couldn't speak a word of english so they had to rely on my:
So just those little phrases got me through.
Some of my dad's favourite catch phrases are
nine tenths is preparation
preparation is key
and then he's got smooth, smooth, smooth.
"Nice and smooth Trist."
That's it, smooth smooth smooth.
Smooth all the way, smooth.
Listen to your cups.
Smooth.
Obviously there's Coach but he's also dad
and like you know sometimes what Coach says comes through as what dad's saying.
Sometimes I like argue back at him
'cause like he's my dad
So some things he'll say I'll make a comment back.
I definitely do get a little frustrated at him
because he'll be like
"Oh, I'm trying my best"
I was like your best isn't good enough.
I should not be stacking this well at my age.
Yeah the cut-out there
we got as a gift for him one year
Because my dad is, you know, like, he likes himself a little bit.
So we thought why not make a cut out of him.
Molly's our starter which is crucial.
And Zeppelin we're training as our finisher.
So a finisher in cup stacking is no different to like a 4 by 100 relay team.
You haven't got a good anchor
then teams will just easily win the last leg.
But Zeppelin's got hands that, he can be a second and a half behind
and he can win it for us
and that's what he's done in some of the state competitions.
"Have you heard from Zeppelin?"
You heard from Leah at all about Zep turning in to training today?
"Hey Leah how're you going?"
"Oh you're kidding aren't you?"
"So they're saying surgery like..."
"next week, oh my goodness."
Alright guys
stop stacking come on in.
Come in, come in quickly.
Alright, so um...
just had a phone call from Leah
and Zep's obviously broke, sounds like his thumb.
When he does get here, I think get behind him
give him some support
Because he’s gonna be pretty devastated he can’t stack in the Arnold sports festival coming up.
And the end of the day what's our motto
One in all in.
He's a teammate, he's a fallen soldier and I'm gonna sign his cast.
Three. Two. One.
Stackaroos!
My name's Zeppelin, I'm 10 years old
I’m one of the main stackers in the Stackeroos.
I hold three guiness world records. The free for free, free 6 free, and cycle.
I've broken my hand and, my best friend he accidentally kicked me
and I started to cry a little.
Why?
Because it hurt so bad and I got nervous because I have to have surgery next week
and I was like mum I don’t want to.
Today, I'm going to train for the Ronald competition and beat other peoples' times
My one arm, my hand.
"Do you want me to let you win or are you gonna earn it?"
"No he's gotta earn it."
"You never ever, let anyone win."
Hands on timers.
Ready. Set. Go!
"YEAH!"
"Well done. Good job, good job."
"ZEPPA!"
"Good job.
At the end of the day, cup stacking is about the people that's in it,
cups are inanimate objects.
It's what the kids do with them that make them special
and at the end of the day it's those people, the adults that are around,
the coaches that are in there, that make it special.
The cups, the cups don't really mean a lot apart from you're going to put your hands on them,
you're going to stack them up and people are going to be looking at what you can do
not what the cups can do.
"Stackeroo's in the house!"
"3... 2... 1..."
"ARE YOU STACKER IN DISGUISE? ARE YOU STACKER IN DISGUISE?"
"WHO ARE YA WHO ARE YA? WHO ARE YA WHO ARE YA?"
"WHO ARE YA WHO ARE YA? WHO?"