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Horizontal Elbow Pass with Hoop
The lovely Babz explains how to pass the hoop behind your back with your elbows while in the horizontal plane. This is a neat looking trick that impresses for sure.
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Body Turn Hoop Isolation
This is a tutorial for a move in which you hold the hoop vertically off body, and turn your whole body to isolation the hoop. This is a simple move that adds a neat flair to off body hoop work. She explains it very well, and offers some variations and segue options to improve your flow into and out of this trick.
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Across the Chest Hoop Roll Tutorial
In this tutorial, Caroleeena outlines three variations on a chest roll with a hula hoop. She does a great job of outlining the moves to complete the trick, but also goes over some troubleshooting.
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Thread the Needle with Hoops
Caroleena made a great tutorial that teaches a rather simple poi hooping move called Thread the Needle. When you get this move down smoothly, it looks really cool!
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Behind the Back Elbow Pass with Hoop
In this video, Babz Robinson outlines how to pass the hoop behind your back using your elbows instead of hands. This is a great hoop trick that impresses people when they see it.
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One Handed Double Hoop Isolation
In this tutorial, you will learn how to do a one-handed isolation with two hoops. In this trick, one hoop travels around the second hoop. She outlines the skills needed and steps to take in order to be able to pull off this difficult twin hoop trick.
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Isolation Sequence Tutorial
Deanne Love was dealing with hooping indoors on a rainy day, and made a tutorial for some hoop moves that are easy to do indoors in a small amount of space. She goes over the basic isolations you can do, and then outlines a sequence of isolations that flow nicely together. This is a great way to improve your flow for off body hoop tricks!
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Poi Hooping: Reverse Behind the Back 2-beat and 3-beat Weaves
Michelle Hazzard explains in detail how to do these two very complicated poi hooping moves. There are neat diagrams that follow pictures of her doing it so you can get an idea of how your arms, wrists, hands, and hoop are all supposed to be positioned to pull off this intricate move. The prerequisites are being able to do the normal reverse 2-beat and 3-beat weaves.
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Mini Hoops, Poi style- Extended Reels
This is a neat looking poi hooping move, it is a variation in which there is an added rotation on a regular front and back reel move. She first breaks down the concepts of the move using poi instead of poi hoops, so its helpful if you have your own poi, but I think you think you will get the concept even if you don’t. She also makes some helpful diagrams that help you understand the path the hoops will take. There is slow motion at the end too to help with your understanding of the move.
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Poi Hoop Tutorial – Butterflop
Bags is an innovative thinker when it comes to two hoops. This tutorial is for a rather simple move with two hoops that creates a neat visual effect. It does take quite a bit of wrist strength though, but the end result is worth it.
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Horizontal Cateye with Hoop and Unit Circle Theory
This is a tutorial for a poi move turned into a cool off body hoop move. He breaks it down in an easy to understand way, but this move does require a quite a bit of wrist strength. He outlines some ways to build up wrist strength to be able to complete this visually pleasing trick. He also goes over unit circle theory with a hoop, and how you can use this idea to flow between off body isolation and extension tricks.
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Three Beat Weave with Hoops
This is an amazing tutorial from an amazing mini hooper, Harmony. She starts from the basics with of ways to strengthen your wrists in order to complete this complex poi hooping move. After that, she goes over the two beat weave on each side, and finally breaks down the three beat weave in a nice way. Reading the comments on the youtube is inspiring because so many people have gotten down because of her tutorial. Happy poi hooping!
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Shoulder Hooping with a POP!!
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!
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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.
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shoulder back roll
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
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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How to do a back roll
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
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
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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hoop on your foot
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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