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Duck in from behind the back

November 30, 2009 / Intermediate, Single Hoop

Hoop Tricks; In this hula hooping trick you are going to learn how to spin the hoop behind your back and then do a back bend into the hoop, and take it back off again.

Start by hooping in wall plane one beat in front of your body and one beat behind your body. The hoop should be traveling CW if in right hand and CCW if in left hand. Hand placement will be palm out behind your back. As the hoop travels behind your back, stop the hoop while it is pointing up and bend backwards so that you are inside the hoop. Now do this faster and you should have the trick.

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Raise the hoop

November 29, 2009 / Single Hoop

How to raise your hula hoop from your waist above your head.

First start hooping and if you are hooping CW, then use your Left hand and stick it behind your back with your palm facing out. As soon as you feel the hoop roll over your hand, bring your arm into the air, leading with your elbow and try to bring your arm straight up. If you are getting all twisted and your arm is ending up on your right side, then try turning your body the same direction the hoop is going as you lift. Practice practice practice.

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Shoulder toss

November 28, 2009 / Intermediate

How to toss the hoop vertically using your shoulder

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Brecken at Symbiosis o9′

November 27, 2009 / Performance

Damn good festival and damn good hoopin’

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shoulder back roll

November 27, 2009 / off body

In this hooping trick you will learn how to place the hoop on a vertical axis on your back and then duck out of it again.

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Elbow Transfer

November 26, 2009 / off body

How to do a behind the back elbow transfer.

Start by hooping forwards on one of your elbows. As the hoop comes behind you and you can sense that open space in the hoop, quickly rotate at your hips and stick your other elbow behind your back and into the open space of the hoop. The hoop should hook your elbow and then continue spinning backwards on the opposite side you began on.

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jump out

November 24, 2009 / Single Hoop

Hoop Tricks; Learn to jump out of your hoop, yet another way.

Start by hooping on your body and grabbing the hoop behind your back. Keep twirling the hoop as you tilt the hoop opposite your hand away from your body and then jump out of it. Viola! You have learned a new trick with your hula hoop.

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How to do a back roll

November 23, 2009 / off body, Single Hoop

Hoop Tricks; How to roll your hula hoop along your back

Start by spinning the hoop towards your self in the wall plane. Look to the hand that is spinning the hoop and place the hoop on your arm with enough momentum so that the hoop will roll all the way over to your other hand. Did I forget to mention that your chest is going to need to be angled towards the floor? Watch the hoop roll down your arm and then turn your head to look for the hoop so you can grab it and keep on hooping.

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Cat-eye-solations

November 23, 2009 / Isolations, off body

Hoop Tricks; Learn some isolations with your hoop.

This trick is just a lot of fun to play around with and will start to give you a lot of control over your hand hooping and isolations.

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Vertical Step Through

November 22, 2009 / off body, Single Hoop

Hoop Tricks; Vertical step through.

This is a pretty classes hooping move where the hoop is spun on a vertical axis at the side of your body. As the hoop goes in front and you see that open space, step your leg through and at the same time bring your front hand to between your legs and grab the hoop from your hand that is behind you. As you grab with the front hand, lift your other leg and bring the hoop off your body.

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Start the hoop on the floor

November 21, 2009 / Single Hoop

Hoop Tricks; How to kick start your hoop from the floor and bring it to your knees.

Start with the hoop lying over your foot with your foot on the inside of your hoop. Take your other foot and give it a real good kick or push from the outside, pushing your leg forwards. You can also do this by kicking your leg backward, obviously you would need to place the hoop differently from the starting position.

Once you kick your hoop, put the foot into the hoop and lift your knee up to bring the hoop up.

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hoop on your foot

November 20, 2009 / off body, Single Hoop

Hoop Tricks; How to spin the hoop on a vertical axis on your foot.

Start by getting balance just standing on one foot while the other foot is out to the side. Now point your toes.
Start by spinning the hula hoop backwards on your hand and bring your foot closer to you while reaching out with your hand that has the hoop and gently place the hoop on your foot. Hurray, now your foot hooping!

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How to hoop at your knees

November 20, 2009 / Single Hoop

Hoop Tricks; How to hula hoop on your knees

First off you need to have your support leg and then your other leg is going to be the leg that gives the hoop momentum. As you hoop try using one leg to push and bump the hoop as it comes in contact with you. Another way to knee hoop is to begin, stand straight and place the hoop at your knees, just so it is touching the back of your knees. Give the Hula Hoop a twirl and spread your arms out for balance. Move your knees back and forth in a circular motion to keep it going.

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Revolving Door

November 20, 2009 / off body

Hoop Tricks; How to do a step through, sometimes called a revolving door…..i think.

If you are hooping Clockwise, bring the hoop around your body and using your left arm, turn the hoop vertical, lift and put your right leg out. Swing the hoop to your right leg so that your leg travels through the hoop and keep going around your body and off the other (left leg). You also switch hands in the middle of this trick.

To change the direction of spin. Do the same thing except that you are going to step with your left foot first and then bring it off of your right.

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Grasshopper at Burning man

November 19, 2009 / Performance

This is not a hooping tutorial, but it brings back some good memories!

Hooping at burning man

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Duck in

November 19, 2009 / off body, Single Hoop

Hoop Tricks; Duck In.

Start by spinning your hula hoop around your body, doing a body orbit as I believe it is called. Bring the hoop behind your back and then bend over bringing your chest to the ground. At the same time your hoop is going to start rotating around your thumb that is pointed towards the sky. When the hoop twirls over your back and you can see the open space it creates, bend up into the hoop and use your hand to give it s whirl and keep the momentum going.

Viola, you just ducked in!

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Hoop isolations

November 18, 2009 / off body

Learn do do hoop isolations.

An isolation is a point in space that does not move, whether that is an actual object or an imaginary line.

Grab your hula hoop and put your hands on either side of it, imagine that there is a hub in the middle and that you are going to be moving your hoop around that fixed hub, much like the steering wheel of a car.

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playing with open space

November 18, 2009 / Single Hoop

Hoop Tricks; Playing with open space.

Once you can hoop comfortably and can keep the hoop going, now it is time to play with all that open space in the hoop. Take your hands and look for gabs between the hoop and your body, when you see one, stick your hand in it and pull it back out before the hoop runs into your arm. This is using the “open space” in the hoop and between your body.
You can also do this while turning to slow down the motion and give you a chance to sweep your arm for longer periods of time.

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twin step out

November 18, 2009 / Twins

This is a real cool hoop trick posted by Sharna Rose. Grab two hoops, get one going on your knee, kick a leg out and step through the other hoop while the one knee continues to hoop. Now stick that leg back on the hoop and kick the other one out and take the second hoop off your body again……WOW!

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one shoulder hooping

November 18, 2009 / Single Hoop

Hoop Tricks; How to hoop on one shoulder, or how to duck out and do a shoulder roll.

Your going to need to shrug your shoulder and dip the opposite shoulder down so that the shoulder you are going to roll the hoop on is “pointed” to the sky.

Practice first having your arm in the air and ducking your head out. After you are comfortable with that, drop your head out, but keep your arm down. The hoop should roll around your shoulder!

Originally posted by SaPhire

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