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Permalink Reply by kimani l♥vs on December 20, 2010 at 8:17am

I AGREE ALL THE WAY! i sent out this mass email to try to spruce up the hoop community in vegas and the only people that responded were 4 or 5 people that already hoop. i live in a sea of "bland, shallow, just boring people that you can't even have an in depth conversation about anything with or that give you the stinkeye because you look different than everyone else " . I FU**ING hate the mindset of this place...

Just reading about the festivals and cool motherfu**ers :) im getting goosebumps!

 

:) krissy

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Permalink Reply by kara daly on February 22, 2012 at 10:57pm

I am really glad I came upon this thread, because this is something that I have been grappling with for a while now. Here is how I feel about it.

A lot of girls pick up hooping because they see someone else doing it, it looks cool, and before you know it they have starry eyes, dreaming of being the girl at the bassnectar show up on the cube with the fuzzy boots and the LED hoop. And that's all rosy for a while, but there comes a point in time in every hoopers journey where s/he has to drop the ego. And this is true for any practice. I think musicians--and all artists for that matter--have to deal with this. Everyone is human, and everyone has an ego, and everyone allows their ego to get into the hoop sometimes, but if you're going to keep up with it exponentially, and if you're really going to break into new levels of practice, the ego has to go. You just can't bring it with you to those higher levels. At some point your art (hooping) becomes a meditation, and you find a flow, and if you're thinking about how you look, and the other hoopers around you, you're not in flow.

So eventually, the girl who started hooping because she wants to look cool, if she is destined to be a trooper on the hoop path, is going to drop his/her ego and his/her circle is going to become a sacred space. And if s/he's lucky enough to do this, s/he will be able to translate this practice into every day life.

This is why even though my ego doesn't want me to, I spread hoop love freely everywhere I go. Because everyone, even your enemies, deserve to embark on the loving journey that the hoop leads you down, everyone deserves that happiness, everyone deserves to be in flow, and everyone deserves to learn how to let go of their ego and find sameness among the beings around them.

It is still hard for me because I am human, to see the surge of hoopers popping up everywhere. But I welcome them with love because I know it's the right thing to do and if I'm stuck wishing I was the only hooper on the scene, then I'm just as attached to my ego as they are, and I'm not getting high anymore.

peace and blessings

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Permalink Reply by rainingpink on February 27, 2012 at 5:40am

Wow! This post has really made me think. Thank you <3

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Permalink Reply by shannon reeves on February 27, 2012 at 6:52am

@ kara daly, Very Well Said!!!! thank you for that and thank you for enlightening the people around you!! mucho hoop love!!!

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