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Did you miss that? Here it is again. And again. A little slower.
没看清？那我们再看一遍。还是再看一编吧。这次我们来看个慢动作的。
It’s probably still not slow enough.
可能还是不够慢哈。
This is sport stacking, or maybe you call it speed stacking, or cup stacking.
这项运动叫竞技叠杯，又称速叠杯或叠杯运动。
But whatever you call it, it has become a huge sport.
但无论怎么称呼，这项运动都已经成了一项广泛的运动。
It’s in the Junior Olympics.
青少年奥运会上也有这个项目。
Versions are taught in PE classes, and show up on The Tonight Show and Ellen.
这项运动已经列入了世界各地的体育课程，还上过“肥伦秀”和“艾伦秀”。
Last year, more than 600,0000 people set a world record for stacking at the same time around the world.
去年，全球60多亿人同时参加这一比赛还创立了一项世界纪录。
This is a lot more than a hobby.
这项运动已经不再只是一种爱好了。
Sport stacking’s basically a combination of formations
大体而言，竞技叠被是一种组合排列的游戏，
in which stackers upstack (stack up cups) or downstack (bring them down again).
玩家要么“往上叠”（将被子都叠到一起），要么“往下收杯”（重新将杯子还原）。
It’s all a race against the clock, for new, mind-bendingly fast times.
这是一场与时间赛跑的比赛，适合思维敏捷的新时代。
The most common patterns are 3 cups, 3 cups, and 3 cups, 3 cups, 6 cups, and 3 cups — or a 3-6-3 —
最常见的项目有3-3-3项目，3-6-3项目，
and then the cycle, which has you do a 3-6-3, followed by a 6-6 and then a 1-10-1, which top stackers can do like this.
以及花式循环，在该项目中，选手需要按以下规则完成赛事﹕先完成3-6-3项目，再完成6-6项目，然后是1-10-1，最后还原成3-6-3。
"My name is Melissa Gomez. I won the the 2014 and 2016 U. S. Nationals for women."
“我是梅丽莎·戈麦斯，我是14年和16年美国女子组的冠军。
And I won the Junior Olympics in 2015 for women.”
我还是2015年青少年奥运会女子组的冠军。”
The guy next to her is Mark Sykes.
她旁边的那位是马克·赛克斯。
He’s a former high school football and baseball player who is coach of the U.S. Sport Stacking team.
他高中的时候是橄榄球和棒球运动员，现在是美国竞技叠杯国家队的教练。
He’s a Master's level competitor too.
也是一名大师级别的参赛选手。
(Masters basically means that he’s a grown up, since a lot of stackers are teens or younger).
（大师的意思就是他已经是成年人了，因为很多竞技叠杯的选手都还是青少年，甚至更小）。
He holds occasional practices in his church’s basement, and those practices attract some of the best in the region.
他偶尔会在教堂的地下室开一些练习课，吸引了该地区最厉害的一些选手。
"Once I went to that first competition, then I was kinda hooked. And then I kept going with the kids and kept competing.”
“我去了首届比赛之后就迷上了这项运动，之后我就不断和孩子们一起去练习，去参加比赛。”
Amazing stackers like Melissa — and Mark — have put in hours and hours of practice.
像梅丽莎和马克这样厉害的玩家都是投入了数小时数小时的练习。
Their goal is to break personal and world records, but you can see their skill when they aren’t even trying.
他们的目标是打破个人记录，打破世界纪录，他们连看都不看都能叠，他们的水平可见一斑。
This is Melissa just practicing. Look at how quickly she does a slow set, just to clear her mind.
这是梅丽莎练习的情形，我们来看看她在放空的时候慢悠悠地叠杯的速度。
Or look at this. She’s setting up a 1-10-1. Notice where her eyes are looking.
再来看看这个，她现在叠的是1-10-1项目。注意她眼睛看的方向。
She’s not showing off. She just doesn’t need to look anymore.
她并不是在炫耀，她只是不需要再看着叠了。
Here’s a newbie stacking and here’s Melissa.
这是新手的表现，这是梅丽莎的表现。
The point is not that Ellen is bad.
问题是，不是艾伦玩儿得不好。
The point is that people like Melissa have gotten so, so good they can do it all on autopilot.
而是梅丽莎那种级别的选手的水平已经好到她们能够靠自动控制来完成动作了。
And then when they really try?
那他们认真起来又是什么样呢？
But at the same time, stacking is not just raw talent, or even practice alone.
然而，叠杯并不是单靠天赋或者单靠练习的一项运动。
The best stackers have to develop highly advanced tactics.
最好的叠杯选手还得钻研先进的战术。
When you become a speed stacking pro, you need to optimize for the milliseconds, like Zhewei Wu does.
成为专业叠杯选手之后，您就得想方设法毫秒必争，就像吴纪伟那样。
"I started stacking when I was in 6th grade, so I was 12 at that time,
“我是六年级的时候开始玩儿竞技叠杯的，也就是我12岁的时候，
and I was introduced in PE class, and we’ve been practicing since then.”
还是在体育课上了解到的，从那以后我们就一直在练。”
That means breaking down the quirks of the timer, cups, and different competition formats to get record-breaking times.
这也就意味着要破纪录，他就必须突破各种计时器、杯子和不同比赛形式的限制。
This is a stacking mat and timer.
这是一块儿叠杯用的垫子和一个计时器。
It starts when your hands leave the timer and stops when they return.
手离开垫子时开始计时，重新放会垫子时计时结束。
In that space in between, there’s room for tactics to shave off crucial fractions of a second.
在这期间，可以使用各种策略来缩短毫秒级别的用时。
"Most recently it’s the way that people start the timer."
“最近人们使用这种方法开始计时的。”
So in the past people put their hands on the timer flat, like this.
但过去人们是把手放在计时器的面上，这样。
But now people will cup their hands around the cup and they have their hands on the timer like this.
但是现在人们会用手这样握着杯子，这样放在计时器上。
It’s not the conventional way to do it, but doing so enhances the time it takes for you to get on the first cup.
虽然与传统的做法不一样，但这样能够节省你拿到第一个杯子的时间。
And having just those little differences makes a huge difference on your time.”
即便是这样微小的差异都会对你的比赛用时产生巨大的影响。”
