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Permalink Reply by Cara McConnell on October 22, 2012 at 4:00pm

This is one thing I'm hoping to accomplish. I want to find fellow hoopers, and I want that connection! That's why I'm a member on here! :)

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Permalink Reply by Christina Hummingbird on October 22, 2012 at 4:15pm

where do you live, cara?

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Permalink Reply by LiviJoyHoops on October 22, 2012 at 5:23pm

Thank you for sharing this with us!  I was literally just thinking about my own journey, and the level it has brought me to.  Thoughts were running through my mind, and I was thinking about the words to share on Hoop City.  Maybe some day!  I love hearing how passionate everyone here is about hooping--it makes me realize that I am not alone out there...even when most days, and the daily grind--it really does feel that way!

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Permalink Reply by Christina Hummingbird on October 23, 2012 at 2:38pm

oh you are SO not alone! i feel kinda crazy sometimes because hooping is the majority of what i talk about...but then i realize...I'm not crazy at all! I found what makes me feel the best...i found my passion...i found myself in a hoop! so i dont care!!!! lol <3

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Permalink Reply by Allie Octaphant on October 22, 2012 at 9:14pm

That's awesome!! I wish I could find some chill Portland OR hula hoopers... Unfortunately the few I have met in person were not very nice :/ cause they thought they were better then me... that was 2 years ago though lol

Hope You have A good Hoop birthday!!!!!!!!!!
<3

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Permalink Reply by Marji M on October 22, 2012 at 10:35pm

Allie, I live in Portland! Come kick it with me and my hoop mamas! PM me and lets chat :)

I feel you on some of the Portland hoopers, but not all of them are uppity i swear!

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Permalink Reply by Shannon "Inertia" Sealey on October 22, 2012 at 11:56pm

Since moving from Santa Cruz (huge hooper community) to a little town "south of Sacramento, north of Stockton, East of San Francisco"... ahem *nowhere special! (Clements, if you're very curious) haha.... I have lost a lot of those hooper connections you speak of. I definitely think it is a beautiful part of the hooping experience, having a hoop to share, then a conversation - and realizing how much you really have in common when you both share the love of something so intensely that you actually CALL yourself a "hooper" not just "Oh yea, I have a hula hoop"

I am a novice at "fostering hoop communities" and in truth I'm wishing someone else would just do all the work and I could join, haha... but I think I'm going to have to build up to what you have in the bay area, and what I had in Santa Cruz. It doesn't happen overnight, and it does take time and the love of the hoop. I think you can really feel that when you go to a hoop jam and you see tons of new faces and think "wow, I am a part of something great"

If there isn't a community near you where you can feel this, perhaps you can message me and we both can motivate each other to get one started. Hoops change lives in a good way and when there are more hoopers in a community, it brings that community together more often - building bridges, relationships, human experience evolves... *closed eye smile*

Thanks for writing this and helping me realize the same great effect the hoop has on all of us. <3

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Permalink Reply by Christina Hummingbird on October 23, 2012 at 2:45pm

aww Inertia you are so welcome!!! everything you said i am so in sync with! It's a crazy roller coaster of emotions! Finding this new community of people who share the same interest and love that I have been feeling for so long on my own...is so incredibly empowering. The Bay Area Hoopers get together in San Francisco...usually at a park...but since winter is making its way here...there is an indoor space that is used. Although...i dont know all of the details yet since im new to this lovely group of people. But i would love it...WE would love it if you joined us! or we could even plan a day once a month or something that we can get together and hoop...there is a hooping community near you...and I would love for you to be apart of it with us. :)

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