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Permalink Reply by Miss Texas on October 19, 2010 at 5:25am

I discovered this move on accident haha. I was chest hooping with my hands in the air together in the prayer position and I shimmied it up to my hands. I've been practicing it but it's still not very pretty. it's the same motion as shimmying from any other part of the body except you're using your arms and you have to push A LOT harder in order for it to move up. Definitely try it with bare arms and shoulders. The hardest part is not to hit yourself in the face, you have to really push it up once you get to your chin so you can get your face out of the way. Hope that helps a little bit.

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Permalink Reply by Kat Dallons on November 9, 2010 at 12:28am

that would look so awesome if you started at your knees, shimmied up, up, up all the way to your hands in prayer!

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Permalink Reply by The CircularPhile on October 19, 2010 at 9:32am

I just discovered this too. You don't have to start from the waist, you can just start at the chest. As Yadida said, you really have to push hard with your arms to get the hoop up. It helps to move both your arms together in a circle instead of back and forth. It makes the movement smoother. Once it gets to right below my left elbow, I drop my elbow down and give it a push up to get it the rest of the way. Kind of like knocking your hoop back up to your hips with your knee. As with almost every hoop move, it is much easier while turning yourself in a circle.

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