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Permalink Reply by Alli Rae on February 12, 2010 at 1:11pm

i tried it at my aunt's house after i revealed to my family that i had been spending all free time learning the art of the hoop, and i was terrible. they assumed because i was a hooper that i would be great at this exercise, but i wasnt. you have to really swing your hips around in a big circle, like the way people stereotypically think hula hooping should happen. they throw hoops at you so you had to lean from side to side and a little forward to "catch" them. it was fun, but i felt really silly.

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Permalink Reply by Megan of *From the Hip on February 12, 2010 at 1:15pm

It's really simple. You just have to swirl your hips around as fast as you can and lean into the hoops getting tossed to you. I don't think that practical experience inhibits anything, you just play the game. I beat everyone in my house and had some crazy untouchable record, don't remember what it was now though haha

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Permalink Reply by JayaLuna on February 12, 2010 at 1:15pm

Yea, hooping on the wii is nothing like 'real' hooping. It hurts my hips and sides to hoop on the wii because you have to swing your hips in a pretty large circle to keep the hoop up. It is soooo not the correct way to hoop!!!

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Permalink Reply by beth lavinder on February 12, 2010 at 3:14pm

For some reason, virtual hooping via a computer game bugs me, probably because I am unfairly opposed to computer generated exercise. It seems like the tactile experience of hooping with a real hoop is so much more satisfying than watching a screen and getting feedback that way. Unless you think me completely judgmental and mean, I have to admit that I loved playing drums on Guitar Hero, especially when the virtual audience roared in approval. Thought I might have to join a rock band after a couple hours of that.

As for "virtual hooping" though, I'm reminded of a cool video that Christa from Vancouver put up nearly 5 years ago. She filmed herself hooping with an invisible hoop. It was hysterical. I think there were several other "virtual Hooping" videos put up in response to it. Sort of a wave through the then-small hooping community. I remember she even dropped the imaginary hoop at one point. Remembering it still makes me laugh. I'll see if I can pull it up.

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Permalink Reply by beth lavinder on February 12, 2010 at 3:21pm

Okay, found it! I'm a bit obsessed.

http://www.youtube.com/user/XtaG#p/u/7/gsYkPd9Pl3g

Apparently this was posted about 3 years ago, not five. Funny how bad my memory is. Seems so long ago!

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Permalink Reply by Farren Square on February 13, 2010 at 1:44pm

hahaha, I laughed so hard at this! Thanks for sharing, Beth!


I like wii hooping, I think it is fun. I do get bored of just waist hooping though, I think wii needs to think about adding some other moves in there, like vertical chest hooping!

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Permalink Reply by Alaska Piper on February 14, 2010 at 5:06pm

+1 so not down with the virtual thing, but to each their own, i suppose..I just think it would be so much more worth the time to do the real things, ya know?

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Permalink Reply by spin gypsy of Centric Hoops* on February 12, 2010 at 5:43pm

hooping on the wii is TOTALLY different. i hooped on the wii first. its a little complicated and if you dont move your hips in a huge circle either a) the hoop falls or b) the game will tell you that you need to make bigger circles and wont throw the hoops at you, inhibiting a higher score. actually hula hooping with a real hoop, in comparison, is a lot easier than hooping on the wii. thats just my opinion. its still fun though!! i have the "high score" on my system :)

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Permalink Reply by Angel on February 12, 2010 at 7:16pm

I think there is a bit of a learning curve to it for everyone who tries it the first time, because all those games involve some adjusting to the game's sensors. I beat my family at it. Even though the movement is not the same as real hooping, I think hoopers have the potential to be better at it because we are more accustomed than non-hoopers to moving our hips.

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Permalink Reply by CelestialSphere on February 13, 2010 at 11:44am

Haha! That video is hilarious Beth, she has some good flow, a video like this might be a good Flow Challenge!

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Permalink Reply by Scunshine on February 15, 2010 at 12:49pm

I don't mind the hula hooping on the wii, but it does bother me a smidge when people say "oh yeah, I can hula hoop, I did it on the wii for like an hour" after I tell them I've taken up hoopdancing. There's no way to not sound like a snob when you say, " yeah but it's not like that at all" when they're interested in trying it out. Though I didn't mind sounding like a snob so much when my sister-in-law said, "why don't you just hoop on the wii?" when I was trying to explain how great of a workout hoopdancing is.

and Alaska piper, I love your point about using the time to actually get good at something. The same goes for games like guitar hero for me.

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Permalink Reply by kentbye on February 15, 2010 at 8:11pm

My brief experience of the wii ended prematurely.

I was at a Thanksgiving day party & hooped on the wii for like 5 minutes, but I wanted to see how closely the game mimicked actual hooping and started hooping on the wii with a real hoop. It did actually seem to still be picking up my back and forth rocking motion used for real hooping.

But then a 5-year old went running across the room completely oblivious to the real hoop flying through the air and it smacked him square upside his head.

Needless to say, it cut my experiment short and I felt so bad as to never try wii hooping again. I guess I saw it as a sign.

PS: the boy recovered by the time I left, but it was certainly a bit of a scare.

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