Hooping in the tulip fields in Keukenhof, Amsterdam! 🌷🇳🇱
Question: Any folks SWEAR that they hoop better in private than in public?!?! I swear I do so much better with my coordination and flow at home…but the moment I’m in public, I SUCK! 😭😂 I just mess everything up…as you can see. Damn!
I can’t be the only one. Please? 🥲
Source: https://youtu.be/8LQYge1coik
✨️ Riverside Radiance ✨️
My radiant hula hoop dance filmed at Taupo Quay, Whanganui, New Zealand. 🇳🇿
A big hug to my wonderful husband, Michael Richards, for capturing my radiance! 🫂
Its been a while since I last posted BUT! I have been practicing and here's how it's going - single handed ISOs are becoming easier so I decided to test the waters with a 2 handed ISO - LOTS of work is still needed but I impressed myself with how well I did for my first attempt and wanted to share 🌀😇 How'd I do??
Seems like everything on Amazon has super mixed reviews, and most are multi-piece hoops that snap together/often fall apart.
Any suggestions on brands or stores to buy from?
I have become one of those people that burns more than she glows 😅🤣 here's some ISO flow from my community dive bar burn night this week
I am a man looking to reduce weight and thin up my waist and love handle area. I am getting conflicting answers on whether weighted or regular hula-hoops are better for exercise. Some say weighted ones build muscle, while others say they thin the waist more than regular ones. I bought a 3lb weighted one since it was the same price as a normal one and I know I’m a beginner, but I find it difficult and sometimes painful to keep it around my waist, more so than I imagine a regular one would be. Any help is appreciated thanks!
Ok I need help and I'm going crazy looking at hoop sizes.
So to keep it short.
I am not new to flow arts . I have a staff and I poi a lot.
Saw the hooping videos and fell in love, this is absolutely something I will pick up quickly and I can already do some tricks, problem is....
Ordered from fire toys the more expencive LED hoop at £130 and 90cm . Was worried it would be too big , it is indeed too big. So figured get a smaller one right ?
I am incredibly limited on both options and vendors. The only other size hoop they offer is 71cm and £219 . They do have an 85cm one but it's the budget choice I wanted the higher quality kind and figured it's only 5cm smaller than the one I have.
Please tell me the 71cm is the right size for all the amazing hoop dancing and off body tricks I keep seeing?
This is honestly driving me mad !
Mom got me a hula hoop but as expected all we can find here are for kids so the thing is only 25 inches / 63 cm in diameter, I didn't do research beforehand (unlike my other hobbies..) and it seems it might be too small to learn with? What size should I get instead?
I'll have to buy online to find bigger sizes, any recommendations for europe? Cheap? Idc about quality or anything just any hoop to start with I don't need anything fancy, I tried searching and most I can find are hoops for fitness with weird shapes and weight- not what I need nor want.
Any advice for smooth movement from the waist to the chest/arms? I'm pretty confident with my waist hooping, but I struggle to drop my arms and move the hoop up without killing all my momentum.
Very much a beginner so tips and tricks appreciated!
I want to learn to hoop. I have the hoop, I learn better with an in-person teacher but I can follow YouTube videos. The problem is space. I don't have a space to practice. My apartment is too small, it's getting too warm for me to be able to function outside, let alone hoop, I tend to get harassed when I go anywhere by myself, regardless of what I'm doing. I don't know what to do. I want to put in the time and effort but I don't know where to go. It's very possible that there is something glaringly obvious that I'm overlooking, so, outer perspective is greatly appreciated. 😅 thank you in advance!
Just wanted to share our little meet up this afternoon. My wife put it together. It was great to see everyone out, old, young, women and men. I was spinning Poi myself, but I've seen first hand how much fun people have had with the ring.
It started with a small group, just a handful. And little by little word got around and sometimes it turns into a good bunch of folks, hooping, and having fun like the one we had today.
So as a child I was really good at it. I'm not trying to get all trauma-dumpy, but I was bullied a lot for being overweight, but hula hooping was the one thing I'd do in school where people would give me compliments!! It just gave me this sense of confidence and calm, that I really miss!
I don't remember why I stopped, I'm guessing I just grew out of it. But for the past couple of years I've been thinking about getting back into it, and after just coming across a video of so done hooping on TikTok, I decided that now is the time!!!
But I have a few questions and concerns around it. I haven't done it since I was a really small kid after all.
I am obese, is this going to be an issue in any way?
How do I know what size/weight hoop I should get? I'm assuming I should get a bigger one since I'm obese? I'm going to consider myself a beginner, even though I used to do it as a child! I have no clue if I still got it, and either way when I did it as a child I didn't go after any rules or guidance! I am doing this for fun, but I also want to try to actually take it seriously as a hobby!!
I bruise easily, so I know there is no way I can avoid that, but is this going to be a problem? I can stick through pain, so im not worried about that, but I obviously dont want to cause any actual harm!!