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Permalink Reply by Frances Sparkle Davis on August 16, 2012 at 12:56pm

Heya!

First off that is so amazing that you started getting people involved in some serious hooping! Thats wonderful! I wish I had more hoopers in my sphere :)

Yeah its a bummer when one persons poor behaviour causes a bar or other venue to create new restrictions. I love hula hooping to live music, and i wish there were more place around that I could hoop and be free in... not just concerts. As for the LED stuff.... I have total LED envy, I really want one! At night especially they are very impressive ... and compared to a regular hoop can actually be seen at night. Its hard not to hate sometimes, but its not about skill, its about enjoyment, lets try and love all our fellow hoopers. Maybe explain to the drunk hoop girl that she needs to just stick to some moves she is really comfortable with, because as hoopers we do need to be careful of those around us. Or find an area to hoop where there is more space and she can really let loose. I dunno I hope this helps....

-MissHoopsALot

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StudentPermalink Reply by Kacie Knight on August 16, 2012 at 5:33pm

I have to agree that baddass hoopers aren't the only ones with rights to hoop in public venues, but as the ones with more experience, we do have a responsibility to give gentle guidance to people who aren't yet as aware of the space they are in or the space they really need to have to safely hoop so you can all share the space and not get kicked out or get a bad rap!

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StudentPermalink Reply by Kacie Knight on August 16, 2012 at 5:31pm

That's awesome you got to hoop at the village stage at Shams!!!! Way to go! It must have been incredible. 

With respect to getting on to the main stage at Pagoda though, you need to either actually be a performer, or to be "know" someone, Was the vertical hoop holding at Zed's Dead by chance? If so, that was my LED, which I lent to a novice hooper who was given a pass by someone who wanted to impress her and give her the opportunity of a lifetime. 

It was awesome to see so many hoopers out this year. I had the most epic hoop jams of my life at the beach this year, not to mention really enjoyed the topless hoop jam at the fractal funk jam. Now that was a mad throwdown!

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Permalink Reply by Alycia Betts on August 16, 2012 at 6:38pm

I didn't get to hoop at the village:( It was way too crammed up there with people. It was during Dub FX and Pretty Lights!

It was around that time yes, I think right before zeds dead. AHHHH That's actually such a great story, beautiful that you helped her get that opportunity. So many miracles at shambhala!

I wish I knew about that ! I would have been so on it. I cannot wait to see videos of all of the massive hoop jams.

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StudentPermalink Reply by Tilly Whirls on August 16, 2012 at 10:08pm

I'd even consider talking to the manager at the bar that lets you hoop there. Tell him, "Hey, we have this friend who's fairly new at hooping, but she tends to do it when she's drunk, which isn't the best scenario in bars. We'd love to talk with you about setting a policy for hoopers in your bar." 

Perhaps they can have a rule where if you're hooping and you're drunk and being annoying or hitting people, you lose the privilege. Or only folks who check in with management can hoop, or something. There's got to be a way to work around it. 

Good luck! 

(Also, I know this from experience—more than two drinks and I can't hold onto the hoop for sh!t. And I have embarrassed myself in a bar once. Once was enough. It hasn't happened again. I only hoop publicly sober now.) 

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