堆纸牌之王

He is the undisputed world champion of card stacking,but Bryan Berg can't figure out why he still holds the world record for the tallest house of cards,at 7.7 meters,″It's not that damn hard,″ he says . In fact,he regularly teaches second-graders how to do it,and says that four out of five can learn to build a five-story structure after one lesson .

It's all in the technique,he says,and he clearly wants to share it with the whole world through his book,Stacking the Deck . His secret is a four-card cell,where one end of each card supports the middle of another card,and the other end points outward,touching nothing,like a pinwheel . A stack of such of cells has surprising strength . Even a small stack can support a concrete block .He once had 13 people stand on a platform supported by a two-story stack .

Bryan discovered the strength of this structure as a teenager,when a two-meter tower survived for a week in the family living room . So his next step was to try for the world height record, which he successfully set in 1992 by building a tower 4.4 meters tall in his high school gymnasium .

After that,you could say he went professional .″He was contracted to build a huge model stadium using 30,000 baseball cards,in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown,New York .He has built several other elaborate models including the Io-wa State Capitol building . He also set a new record for the world's largest house of cards.


Bryan trained as an architect after high school,and got a job teaching architecture at Iowa State University . But he says it's his experience,not his architectural training,that allows him to design bigger and stronger card houses . He does claim,however,that his card stacking helps him judge the strength of real buildings .

A visit to his website will let you see photos of his many architectural triumphs . None of them remain standing for long,and Bryan always takes part in their demolition in order to observe their strengths and weaknesses . Sometimes the structures are quite difficult to knock down . He likes to use a leaf-blower for the task . Huffing and puffing just doesn't work .

被誉为堆纸牌的世界冠军,他当之无愧.然而,布赖恩伯格无法理解,为什么他创造的世界纪录至今还没人打破.他说:“堆纸牌没有那么难嘛!”的确,他经常给小学二年级学生教授堆牌之术,往往一节课过后,4/5的人就能堆出5层高的纸牌了.

他说:“堆牌全凭技巧.” 为此他写了《堆纸牌》一书,与世人分享他成功的秘诀.他的秘诀是:将四张纸牌分为一组,每张纸牌的一端支撑住另一张纸牌的中部,另一端朝外,如纸风车的风页.由这样四张一组的纸牌堆出来的结构非常坚固,即使是小小一堆牌,也足以支撑起一块水泥砖.他曾经堆了两层高的纸牌,上边支撑着一块木板,木板上竟然可以站13个人.

十几岁时,布赖恩在自家客厅里堆了一座两米高的纸牌屋.纸牌屋维持了一星期没倒塌,于是他发现了这种结构的韧性.他决定挑战世界最高纪录.1992年,在他的高中体育馆里,布赖恩成功堆出了一个4.4米高的纸牌屋

在那之后,堆纸牌成了他的职业.他应邀前往纽约州库帕镇的棒球名人厅,在那他用3万张棒球卡堆出了一座大型的体育馆模型.此后,他还堆过几个精细的模型,包括爱荷华州议会大厦.他也创下了世界最大纸牌屋的纪录.

高中毕业后,布赖恩接受了建筑师的培训,结业后在爱荷华州立大学教授建筑学.虽然他宣称,他能够设计出更大更结实的纸牌屋,主要靠经验,而并非他所接受的建筑学培训.但是他不否认,堆纸牌可以帮助他判断现实中建筑物的强度.

在他的网站上,你可以浏览到许多出自其手的纸牌建筑杰作.但是这些杰作很快会被拆除.布赖恩总是亲自参与纸牌屋的拆除工作,以便观察其优缺点.有时候某些结构挺难拆除的.需要用到吹落叶机,因为大口吹气反而不起作用.

(摘自《时代新鲜人》)

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