The Hop Hoop thread

Thanks, GothFrogette. I'll keep that in mind. I've done that single-handed, but never thought to switch.

Blueberry, I always thought that chest-hooping was incredibly african tribal, which may be why I like it so much. It's not often a pasty white girl has an excuse to get into those kinds of movements and rhythms, which I have always loved.

Ooo good tip gothfrogette. That tip works for lots of other tricks that involve timing like the lift up and down.

yup it makes it alot easier to practice and once you get the hang of it you can turn and bend in style making the simpler moves look more fluid and elegant.

i found out the other week that my knees can not take hooping around them (old injury) so am trying to work out some more moves to get the hoop from floor position up to my waist, any ideas? it wouldn't be too bad if i could already get the hoop from the floor with a 'kick' start but the practice that does the damage. So far i have managed to not include them into my routines and it is going well so i could just leave them out after all it wouldn't be the end of the world, but it would be a nice thing to do as i like linking from poi to hoop and back again.

*yawns and goes off for coffee*

whith a little bit of practices and a big scoop kick you can actually do a kick up straight to your waist. It has happend acouple of times to me by accident now i'm working on getting is solid.

I also have another trick that might work for you but i don't think i can explain it in text, i'll see if i can make a little video some time this week if you like.

that would be wicked and loads of help

I call that move nightfever when teaching also!

I tend to use some of hoop girls names when they are descriptive (but then I work for a burlesque/pole dance company, so booty bump is fairly exceptable! took me a long time to get used to using that one however!)

However, I'm not a fan of names like warrior! Its a figure of eight for god's sake! I think its really important for names to have at least a bit of description in them, otherwise its really hard to remember them.

i too am a fan of the booty bounce lol but the worrior stumps me as do most of the others to think of it, which is why i am not a big fan lol

do you incorporate hooping into burlesque? i am working on it but would love to meet another who does to swap tips

wooo, well i managed to walk the hoop up my arms today and get it round my neck, only problem was, once it was round my neck, it did a few rotations and no matter how vigorously or calmly i bobbed my neck about it fell off my shoulder.

Any tips on neck hooping greatly appreciated

I move more in a forwards-backwards direction, much like you'd teach someone to do with regular waist hooping in the beginning... rather than trying to rotate; and it works, but it looks kinda (actually, very) stiff and whatever the opposite of smooth/flowing is.

more like zombie hooping, than hoop dancing... I'm guessing that's just more practise

i think it may be a case of just more practice, to get the feel of the hoop and it's rotation. extending your neck so it makes the most of it's length and looking up may help too. Are you more used to shoulder hooping? i get the exact oppostite problem when i am hooping around my shoulders...it like to go up round my neck more, and i think it is because i am more used to neck hooping than shoulder.

lol on zobie hooping, i have seen quite a few people like that, someone should do a hoop routine to thriller or maybe i should i go for more coffee

Seriously, I am more of a waist bum and thigh hooper! This was the first time i successfully got it up there!!

you see i have no problem getting it up there which is my problem as it seems to have a mind of it's own and doesn't like staying around my shoulders

Hi everyone,

I was given a nice glow hoop that is too big for me, so I've decided to give it to someone else.

It's a green LED hoop from Superhooper, around 36 inches, brand new, i've only used it once to try it (indoors). So I'm giving it away for £65.

For more info, check out http://www.superhooper.org/orderledhoop.html
or write me on stregai@libero.it

Happy hooping,

S*

I've mastered getting it up my arms and round my neck!!

yay! Way to go my little wiggling buddy!

thank you!! it's all about MOMENTUM!! YAY!

For those of you who don't have telly/missed/won't watch such dreadful populist nonsense, here's a clip from "Britain's got talent":

Those hoop people on Britains got talent are Hoop La La... from The Circus Space

Craig Reed, Tiina Tuomisto and Jessica Rose

Thanks for the link Nigel my mum told me about this and I was gutted I missed it!!

Love the outfits and thought it was fantastic!!

Glad the others disagreed with Simon!!