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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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• 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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