HOOPING SUMMER 2011

 This image was made by a photographer of me doing a hoopdance with an LED hoop at the Summer Solstice Street Party 2010

Call to find out where and when we're meeting for classes.

 I'm offering private lessons and parties.

 And of course if you want to buy a hoop

508 627-2516 cell

or

508 693-6057

NEW CLASSES STARTING TUESDAY OCT 5TH.

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SUMMER CLASSES STARTING JUNE 7TH

There is much more to Hooping than you can guess if you are new to it.
Top on the list is that is a surprisingly efficient and effective full body exercise.
If you scroll around you'll see earlier posts on that subject.
But generating energy - enhancing your life force - the spiral motion that is basic to all life - is available in the hoop.
This is what I like to focus on.  We all have dominant and habitually relied on sides to our body and so, also our mind and brain. I show you how to balance your body, to strengthen the less accessed motions to give you a wider range of physical options. You will feel the subtle way this affects your outlook.

We will do stretches which everyone loves! And power workouts, interval hoop training, Trance hooping (relaxing moves) exercises that give your spine more mobility.....

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HOOOOP!

Beginner Tips

So while you're hooping move your body. Get loose. Don't allow yourself to hold tension in your upper body. Shake it out. All kinds of ways. Lift up your arms. Circle them around. Twirl your wrists in circles. Doing circles with your hands and arms echoes the circularity of the hoops motion and informs fluidity. Circular motion that inspires those new neuropathways you are initiating and building.

Try spinning suddenly in the hoop. Its called a stall. See how the body grabs the hoop and moves along with it and the hoop seems to suspend. COOL! Do it again and again. That grab is the "flick" or the "swipe" as I call it. That is another way to drive the hoop. You turn your body just enough to grab and move it on its way. You'll notice one of the constants is how we hoopers turn or spin while hooping.
So try to rotate inside the hoop (while hooping). Do it in the same direction as the hoop is going and maybe start in baby steps. Now turn the other way - into or against the hoop motion. Notice the difference.

Another drill - get once you get your flow hold your arms out straight to either side. Now slowly rotate your upper torso in the direction the hoop is going. Keep your feet planted and your hips steady and unturning. Turn back to center. Then carefully turn the other way, against the hoop's direction. Do you feel what's happening there?

Whenever you do or feel something surprising see if you can find it again. Try to feel it again dont try to understand it just go for the feeling. If you cant do it now you'll notice it next time it happens. THat's neuroplasticity at work.

New Hooper Practice Tips

I'm trying to add a video here but somethings broken on the editor so until I get that answered I'll add something daily. You can ask questions and I'll put up suggestions and ideas and drills etc.
Happy Hoopin!
Try to feel from where on your body you might be driving the hoop.
There is no right answer here. In the beginning it might feel ambiguous. And it changes. Or it SHOULD change. You should try different driving points. Common point of drive are the stomach, and at the hip on the side where the hoop is first crossing to the front of your body. It changes of course when you change hoop directions - you know, hooping in the "opposite direction". You'll probably find that you are using the opposite hip.
So try to drive or contact or push the hoop from different points around your waist or hips just see what you get.

Often people ask -"WHy is the hoop going around at an angle?"
One hint is - if you are really pushing the hoop from one point on your body, say, your stomach that can be the high point on the hoop. What I mean here is...the hoop can go around your body evenly and parallel to the floor or it can revolve at more of an angle. So the high point in the angle of the revolution can often be the spot you are pushing it from.
If you push push push the hoop at each revolution from your stomach, the hoop tips up at that point. You are actually gradually nudging it along to the angle you want. You can use this technique to bring the hoop up your chest. Or to do the BootyBump.