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.