COLORADO SPRINGS — Tim Haig and his 6-year-old son Michael were the ringers in a national cup-stacking competition in Colorado Springs this afternoon.
The father-son duo from Holland, Mich., was full of smiles and seemed laid back as they practiced stacking and unstacking 12 plastic cups in pyramid patterns for the parent-child stacking competition at the 2012 U.S. National Sport Stacking Championships at the Air Force Academy.
Michael was so short that he had to use a stool to reach the cups on the table. His father towered behind him. They looked like an unlikely pair, but they knew what they were doing. Tim Haig taught Michael to stack at age 2 and now his son is faster than him.
When the competition started, the audience could see the pair meant business. With Tim Haig only using his left hand and Michael only using his right, they swiftly stacked and unstacked the plastic cups in several patterns, relying on the exact timing to pull it off for the first place crown.
Find out how the competition turns out in the .
