hula hoop knee stall/reversal
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.
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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.
Ankle carry hand off
March 25, 2010 - 2:29 pm
Tags: ankle carry, foot hooping, Intermediate, off body
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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.
Start the hoop on the floor
November 21, 2009 - 10:10 am
Tags: kick start, leg hooping
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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.
How to hoop at your knees
November 20, 2009 - 12:52 pm
Tags: knee hooping
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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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playing with open space
November 18, 2009 - 2:57 pm
Tags: hands, turning
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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.
twin step out
November 18, 2009 - 1:45 pm
Tags: knee hooping, step outs, Twins
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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!
April 3, 2010 - 8:17 am
Awesome, love the tutorial.
THanks BABZ!