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Permalink Reply by Jazz Hooper Street on January 5, 2011 at 12:28pm

It has to be the escalator up and the flamingo (one legged hooping). The former takes no learning at all just flick the hoop and it does the work for you automatically going up your body (the only skill being catching it at the top), but yet it looks really impressive. The flamingo was one of the very first things I ever learnt to do - almost by accident scooping my leg out of the hoop when I meant to kick the hoop back up to my waist - and goes round one leg better than it ever does round two - yet everybody thinks that doing anything on one leg MUST be incredibly hard so they love it.

On the other end of the spectrum  I think the vertical jump through (forward hand hooping native side and jumping through with both feet and then jumping back, still forward hand hooping from non-native side) has to be one of the easiest looking tricks while actually being really quite tricky to time correctly. I was so surprised when trying to do that for the first time that it wasn't as straightforward as it looked. In SaFire's tutorial she describes looking at your hoop and thinking "NOW, NOW, NOW" but not doing anything and she's so right. Once I'd learnt it, nobody could tell the difference between that and easier jump throughs, but it's fun - so worth learning anyway. 

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Permalink Reply by Raven Rainbow on January 6, 2011 at 3:55pm

Not just simply isolations, but pushing, pulling, cateyes? isopops, flowers playing with isolations. People seem to think isolations are sooo easy to do so doing the like illusions really get them x)

Shoulder hooping for a long period of time (like 10+ spins around the shoulder)--actually. . .any type of shoulder hooping

Sustained, corkscrewish type hooping

Ankle hooping.

Breaks/reversals

opposite hooping

Jumps, tosses

One leg and doing flexible things with your body while hooping on one leg, or in a split.

Anything fast and flowy!

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StudentPermalink Reply by Tammy Yan on January 6, 2011 at 4:41pm

For people with no experience hooping, it seems like the vortex, shoulder duck-out, and flamingo elicit the greatest WHOAAA response.  Also, foot hooping while adding some circus-style flair really makes people go crazy.  Anything that showcases flexibility I guess!  When I was a n00b, jumps blew my mind the most

 

However, hoopers seem to appreciate isolations and breaks/reversals more, and I tend to get reactions on those from people who have experience hooping.  The general audience seems to like more crazy-looking tricks.  Hah they have no idea how difficult isolations are for me!

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Permalink Reply by Grace Lowery on March 19, 2011 at 5:53pm

Hooping on one leg(The flamingo?) is always what gets people when I hoop at school or at my local park.

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StudentPermalink Reply by Dreena of Cirque-ular Hoops* on March 20, 2011 at 4:45pm

ankle kick start and then pulling/kicking the hoop up to the legs or waist.  I still can't do it and I LOVE seeing others do it. 

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