All-righty, here goes nothing!
This afternoon, while procrastinating on work by spending some time with my hoop, I decided to video tape myself to see what it actually looks like when I hoop. I see so many hoopers everywhere, online and ‘irl’ and again and again I am totally in awe of their styles. Each hooper seems to have a completely different and unique style. From flowing and sensual to funky to fierce and explosive and anything in between. Some do lots of tricks, others just dance. Some hoopers hoop mostly on-body, whereas others do lots of off-body hooping and isolations, with their waist hardly ever touching the hoop
. With almost all of these hoopers/styles, I screek ‘ooohhh I want to be able to do that!’ because I feel like I am just doing random stuff, without really having a style.
The video is really basic and pretty monotonous but I do think it nicely depicts my particular style. Very simple, with a lot of focus on dancing and feeling the flow of the hoop. As you can see I am still practicing shoulder hooping
. I am loving hooping to very slow and sensual songs lately. It’s actually very hard to hoop slowly, as speed pretty much keeps the hoop up by itself. With slow hooping, you have to really focus and feel the hoop on your body…
Reason I am posting this is because I love watching hoop dance videos myself and always get some new inspiration from it. I also hope this videos inspires even more people to pick up hooping as it is truly life changing. I feel like I am constantly giving myself an energy and happiness boost with every time I pick up the hoop (= every day, lol).


http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lisa+lottie&oq=lisa+lot&aq=0&aqi=g4&aql=&gs_l=youtube-reduced.3.0.0l4.1148.2918.0.4496.10.8.1.1.1.0.78.379.8.8.0…0.0.o3IFf2lhsIs
Awesome vids from Lisa Lottie who is AWESOME. Go check her out if you haven’t already
yesss i love her, esp the first video from that list!!

Sabine recently posted..My First Hoop-Dancing Video
Wow you are really good Sabine! You’re going to be a pro in no time!
So beautiful. I want to try hooping too, it just seems so fun and pretty and flowing.
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you can try my hoops sunday if you like

Sabine recently posted..My First Hoop-Dancing Video
Wow, that looks absolutely magical! Thanks for the inspiration, but where do I start? I remember never being able to hoop as a child..
I didnt hoop as a kid either!
I’d suggest getting a basic beginners hoop (100cm ish, not too light nor too heavy) and just START! if you cant keep it up, look up a tutorial (maybe I’ll make one for the hell of it, but theres is plenty out there
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good luck & have fun xx
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Amazing! I can’t keep a hoop up for the life of me though! any tips? xx
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hihi! yes, look up some basic hoop tutorials on youtube! my very first tip i give beginners: put one foot in front of the other, give the hoop a big whirl, and push back n forth!!
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Loooove your style of hooping, it’s so sensual! I like how you use your hands during waist hooping, looks really nice.
I just started hooping myself, totally crazy for it
yaaaaaay & thanks! hooping taking over the world man!
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you know its fun for me, since ive only been ‘dancing’ to house & techno for so long, i forgot how t dance sensually. this is great for getting back in touch with that!
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I really loved watching this! It seems like so much fun

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You’re movements are really beautiful! I used to love hooping as a kid even though I couldn’t do much with it. I’m inspired to pick it up again. It seems like the ultimate solo dance party.