Ankle carry hand off
Start by hula hooping around your body using your hands to carry the hoop in an orbit around your body. Then you are going to place the hoop on your ankle. If you are hooping counter clockwise, then place the hoop on your left ankle, if you are hooping clockwise, use your right ankle. Once the hoop is hooked on your ankle, sweep your leg around behind your body and over to its opposite side. As the hoop come over to the opposite side of your body and before it hits your back, grab the hoop off your ankle and resume the body orbit.
Shoulder Hooping with a POP!!
May 21, 2010 - 12:21 pm
Tags: duck in, Intermediate, neck hooping, off body, shoulder hooping, tosses
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Learn how to POP a small, light Hoop, up, off your shoulder after having been Hooping around your neck, and your shoulder. You should already know how to spin a Hoop around your neck and then duck in with your shoulder. Straighten out your arm (whatever shoulder you ducked in with, use THAT arm, straightened out) and grasp your Hoop with your hand, it looks like she’s holding it lightly with her fingers, then she bends the Hoop, by squeezing it, and then letting it go, POP into the air!
Learn the Behind the Back Pass(another version)
April 23, 2010 - 5:00 am
Tags: beginner hoop, behind the back, hand hooping, Intermediate, tosses
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In this video she is starting the trick Hooping with her Left hand above her head in a clock-wise direction. Make sure your Hoop is in a flat plane as it is spinning over your head. You will be using your RIGHT hand to “catch” the Hoop as it comes around your back. Your RIGHT hand should be to your side, just at your waist. As you begin the trick, lower your Hula Hoop and aim it to go Behind your Back. You’ll feel your elbow sicking out, that is where it’s supposed to be. Now your Hoop is (or should be) behind your back; you will then gently toss your Hoop from your LEFT to your RIGHT hand, keeping your Right hand by your waist is helpful. Just remember that your Left hand should come around your back as much as possible to be able to “deliver” the Hoop to your Right hand. Once you pass it you can spin the Hoop out in front of you, like in the video. Or put the Hoop back on your body and raise it up over your head and begin the trick again.
Learn how to Hoop on your foot
April 19, 2010 - 5:22 pm
Tags: beginner hoop, foot hooping, hand hooping, Intermediate, leg hooping
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An easy way to learn to Hoop on your foot is to lay down on your back, put your leg up(in this video she is using her Left foot to start and actually HOOPING on her Right foot.) Put the Hula Hoop on the top of your Left foot and next put your Right foot INSIDE your Hoop. Hold onto your Hoop with both hands and use your hands to position your hoop where it needs to be.Your hands will guide your Hoop first, then your Left foot will start the trick. Both of your feet are going to work together to get the Hoop going in the counter-clock wise direction.You will “push off” with the Left foot and will begin Hooping on your Right Foot! You’ll see that most of the movement is in your foot, and ankle, not really using your leg. You will need to be able to hold your leg up for a bit though! Sneak your other foot up your leg and switch feet. Going back and forth a few times is the way to get really good at this!
The other 2 ways to Learn how to Hoop on your Foot is to have the Hoop spinning on your hand, lay on your back(or begin on your side) and “steal” the Hula Hoop from your hand and put it on your Foot.
hula hoop knee stall/reversal
March 26, 2010 - 7:01 pm
Tags: hands, Intermediate, knee hooping, leg hooping, opposite direction, reversals
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Learn how to start doing a knee stall or reversal. Start hooping in “orbit” around the body. Lift your knee up to your waist and as your hoop comes around to your front hook your knee on hoop and force hoop in opposite direction. Use your left hand and your right knee. The momentum from your knees forces it back into the opposite direction for you to be able to go left to right continuously. To go in the other direction, start with your right hand and your left knee.
foot carry to chest hooping
December 1, 2009 - 12:46 pm
Tags: duck in, foot carry, off body
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Hoop Tricks; Learn to carry the hoop around your body using just your foot and then placing the hoop onto your chest…..yes…with just your foot!
To start this hula hooping trick, you need to be able to do a foot carry. You bring the hoop onto your foot (toes pointed up) and bring that leg around your body and grab the hoop from the opposite side you started on, back into your hand.
Elbow Transfer
November 26, 2009 - 1:48 pm
Tags: elbow transfer, off body, turning
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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.
How to do a back roll
November 23, 2009 - 1:15 pm
Tags: back roll, off body
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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.
Cat-eye-solations
November 23, 2009 - 10:39 am
Tags: hand hooping, isolation, off body
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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.
hoop on your foot
November 20, 2009 - 1:11 pm
Tags: foot hooping, off body
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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!
Duck in
November 19, 2009 - 10:27 am
Tags: duck, off body
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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!
March 25, 2010 - 6:32 pm
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