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Permalink Reply by keri marion on September 25, 2011 at 7:26pm

i commented on your youtube thing, too, but you might just be trying too hard; go a little slower and do it really swiftly to get the feel of it. you're doing great!!

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Permalink Reply by andshespins on September 25, 2011 at 7:33pm

safires youtube tutorials got me through the first couple months of hooping. i really love how she explains things. look up her tutorials on youtube!

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StudentPermalink Reply by Tilly Whirls on September 25, 2011 at 10:02pm

It looks like as you're lifting up you're bringing your hand/arm away from your body. Someone's tutorial says the motion of the lift up is sticking your hand on the small of your back, grabbing the hoop and you trace the back of your hand from your back, around/up your side as if you're wiping something off the back of your hand, then extend the arm all the way overhead, straight up. If you don't keep your arm close enough to your body it results in whacking yourself in the head with the hoop. Which I did a lot of. 

Anyway, I tried to illustrate it in this short video first without a hoop, then slowly with a hoop, then in full motion with a hoop. Hope it helps! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUha541S6dc 

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Permalink Reply by Laura on September 26, 2011 at 3:41am

WOW, thank you for all the great tips (on my video and here)!

Tilly Whirls, your video was super helpful. Thanks for doing that for me. Tracing my hand up my body has made a HUGE difference. I just picked up the hoop to try it and got the lift every single time!

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StudentPermalink Reply by Tilly Whirls on September 26, 2011 at 9:16am

Yay!!! So glad you got it! :D The issue you were having was my biggest problem when learning the lift up. I just kept whacking myself in the back of the head and once someone taught me that (I wish I could remember whose tutorial it was!) I never had a problem with it again. Anyway, if anyone else here know's whose tutorial that is I'd love to give them credit.

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Permalink Reply by Laura on October 6, 2011 at 4:57am

Thanks again for all the help!
Progress! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAvWWjkWeoE
I still need to practice timing and keeping the hoop straight, but at least I don't whack myself in the face with it now and can actually keep the hoop moving!
Next goal: Vortex. I can't get the timing when I bring it down with my other hand, so it seems to result in a lot of bruises. Bruises are fun trying to explain to people at school!
"Well this one on my forehead is from my first time attempting foot hooping...."

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Permalink Reply by HoopinKat on October 7, 2011 at 10:34pm

The fact that you can go from lasso to waist and from waist to lasso you'll get the Vortex in no time. The hardest thing with the Vortex is if you decide to spin in the direction you naturally spin your hoop is to make sure you aren't spinning too slow or too fast, otherwise the hoop gets snagged on your bum. For me it was a lot of slow practicing with my lighter hoop, not trying to get the flow down, but the actual mechanics of the move. And, for me, just like with shoulder hooping you'll just have that moment where the flow and mechanics come together and it just clicks. Light a lightbulb goes off and you think, "ahah!"

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