off body
shoulder back roll
Nov 27th
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.
Elbow Transfer
Nov 26th
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
Nov 23rd
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
Nov 23rd
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.
Vertical Step Through
Nov 22nd
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.
hoop on your foot
Nov 20th
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!
Revolving Door
Nov 20th
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.
If you are doing this trick going CCW, then just reverse everything I just said.
Duck in
Nov 19th
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!
Hoop isolations
Nov 18th
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.
