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Partner Hooping
This simple partner hoop move is initially done with two hoops and involves interlacing your arm with your partner’s. Then the video shows some variations including how to do it in various ways with four hoops.
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Brecken and Tiana Hoop Performance Mexico City
Here’s some pretty tight choreography from Brecken and Tiana hooping on stage in Mexico city.
Tight, quick, on que breaks and transitions. This is a pretty sick hoop video.
Track: Halp- Leek (Doshy Remix).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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foot carry to chest hooping
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.
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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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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! -
Duck in
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
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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