We can reveal that Paul has come out of hiding one week away from the World Sport Stacking Championship with exciting news that he has been training with underground methods. He has been at Speed Stacks UK in Essex, training in the warehouse with UK Champion Kate Parker.

It is evident that Kate didn’t go easy on Paul. She pushed him to the limits that he didn’t even know were possible. Not only did she pass on her top tips and tricks for stacking that make her the UK’s fastest, but she even put Paul through rigorous fitness training with ab destroying crunches. A tough programme but it is what Paul needs to get that ‘eye of the tiger.’

Here are some photos of Kate Parker training Paul G for the 2008 World Sport Stacking Championship in the cold conditions of the Speed Stacks UK warehouse.

- Paul stacking hard
 - Kate steps up to demonstrate her killer stack

- Paul G and Kate Parker joining forces

We can confirm that Paul G, the remaining member of the UK Stack Pack is bringing his World Championship entry forward to 2008.

With the plan to train hard until the 2009 World Championships in Denver, it is known that Paul is devestated that his stacking partner was forced to retire from stackers wrist. He has now decided that he will be in Denver on the 4-5th April to represent the UK but he will dedicating his performance to his lost buddy who sadly will never be able to fulfil his dream of representing his nation on the world stage.

Paul is really serious about this and since his return for the UK, he has been training underground and nobody knows what methods he has been using.

The world tour has almost come to an end. Due to visits overrunning in Fiji, there is also a time constraint in Mexico as there was in the US.

Stopovers were made in Tijuana, Cabo San Lucas and Mexico City.

The Mexicans were a little confused with the cups but they did get involved. Unfortuantely there are no photographs available as there was some trouble nearby between the Mexican Policia (thats Police in Spanish) and the Mexican Mafia, so we packed up before we got too much attention.

The World tour sadly ends on Wednesday when we fly from Mexico City to London Heathrow.

This opportunity would like be taken to thank those who have been supporting this world tour.

The schedule in the US was tight and training didn’t happen unfortunately. On a positive note, Paul is now considering that in honour of his best friend and stacking partner, Tim H, he may go to Denver for the World Sport Stacking Championships.

- Tim, Bob and Paul. Getting to know the locals.

However, as the website shows, Tim has stuck around for the rest of the tour as it nears to the end. The guys managed to get some time to hit the town and paint it red. Here is a video of the guys performing a song at Henry Bar’s Sunday karaoke night in San Diego Downtown.

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Paul makes his way to the island of Vorovoro Island, Fiji, which is host to the unique community tourism project that is also simultaneously based online. More details at: www.tribewanted.com
After showing Tui Mali, the Fijian Island Chief, and showing much interest, the other members of the Fijian tribe were interested to learn more about the sport as they had
never seen or heard of anything like this.

Sosi stood forward and asked Paul if he could have a go. After taking Sosi through the 3-6-3, he gave it a go and managed to stack it without a fumble. It would have been nice to leave the cups on Vorovoro for the tribe to continue using and practicing, but my cups were needed to complete the World Tour.
It was good to see Sosi stand up and get involved with the cups. Paul made a great bond with the people on Vorovoro, vowing to return before the end of the Tribe Wanted project to see the tribe again and take them a gift of a Speed Stacks pack.
- Sosi stacking the 3-6-3.
- Sosi and Paul.

Nice one Sosi!

We are sad to announce that Timothy H has suffered an injury which has resulted in him retiring from competitive sport stacking.

The lads were training after arriving in Fiji. They were stacking with intense speed and suddenly Tim buckled over when he twisted both wrists. He knew that something was wrong so went to the doctor in New Zealand to get them checked. The doctor had a look and did a few tests, he found that with his phenomenal developments of speed stacking skills over the past 12 months, it had taken its toll on his wrists and Tim has now been diagnosed with the most fatal injury a stacker could have; ’stackers wrist.’
The doctor says that he can stack again but his wrists will not recover for him to stack as fast as he once did. This now counts him out of any competitve stacking for life.

UK Stack Pack Coach says, “I will be responsible to help Tim in any way possible. I will see if the most advanced physiotherapy can help get him back, but if it looks like his wrists will be put at risk then he certainly won’t be able to stack again.

A great loss to a man with great skill and love for a sport. But also a great loss to the sport, with signs clearly visiable for International stardom and to give something special to the UK.

We wish Tim all the best of luck in making a quick recovery.

Paul and Tim kindly stop a young lady in Nadi, Fiji to find out where there was somewhere good to eat in the Downtown area. It was coincidence that Laura Elizabeth Ball, Manchester was on her way to out for dinner too, so she invited the guys.

During dinner they talked about life, love and cups. Laura was very curious to see the cups, so after dinner, the UK Stack Pack got their cups out for her.

After showing her the different events, Laura took to the cups.
- Laura Elizabeth Ball, Manchester.

Great news! I can confirm that the UK Stack Pack have resolved their problem.

Paul has made a public apology to Tim for his irrashinal actions. After lunch, he just realised that he was just really tired and hungry and it was messing with his judgement. Tim accepted his apology and now they are back on form for the tour.

Here are some photos.

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- Skydive, Lake Wanaka.
- Glacier, Franz Josef.

The UK Stack Pack have now spent months travelling the world and striving to beat one anothers record times but this has taken its toll on their focus. They are have now reached New Zealand where it has also been a known fact that the guys have been touring very hard and depriving themselves of sleep, not to mention seeking crazy amounts of adrenaline from various activities. The competition between the two rising stars has caused some serious tension but it is not known the extent of the situation.

It allegedly started when a practical joke was played by Tim on Paul. Tim poured suncream onto Paul’s back whilst he slept on the beach of Lake Wanaka.

When he woke up, Tim told him he had written something obscene on his back and people had been laughing and taking photographs. Paul didn’t realise that Tim was joking and had only written ‘UK Stack Pack’ but he flipped, here is the result.

What will happen to the UK Stack Pack now? As their committed Coach I just hope they can sort out their differences and pull through this and start over with fresh cups.

I will keep the site readers and members updated with the situation.