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Permalink Reply by Nick Matyas on July 6, 2009 at 10:09pm

I wonder how long it took the really skilled hoopdancers to look so good in the hoop. Maybe they had prior dance experience?

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Permalink Reply by Tangled Macrame on July 6, 2009 at 10:15pm

Some folks have a natural rhythem and grace that rock the waist hooping. My friend Lisa doesn't have the internet, so she's not part of the trick-learning, you-tube learning culture. She just hoops and it is SO beautiful. I don't think it's something learned, it's just empatterned into bones and muscles over many, many, many hours dancing.

GRRRRRRR.... (i love you too. hehe!)

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Permalink Reply by Helfirey on July 7, 2009 at 2:55am

I think you're right that a lot of people just don't spend much time hooping at the waist. And to be fair, there's only so much you can do - either find an elegant pose (prayer position or something) and keep them there, or make shapes (angles, curves, etc), or "wavy arms" (you know what I mean). Leg hooping raises the same problems - just stood there...hooping on my knees...raise my hands up...put them down again...prayer position...wave them around a bit....ummm...

If you think about non-hoop dancers, though, they don't have this problem, they don't stand there in one place for so long, and they don't do massive amounts of spinning on the spot (a ballerina doing a pirouette doesn't really do much with her hands).

I think one important thing is - whatever you're doing with your hands, make it look like you mean to be doing that, do it with confidence and, if you're listening to music, do something which feels right for the mood of the song. Maybe try doing nothing but waist hooping for a whole song, forget the hoop is there and just think about dancing with your arms and hands. In fact I might try that now... :)

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Permalink Reply by Tangled Macrame on July 11, 2009 at 6:10pm

"a ballerina doing+ a piroutte doesn't really do much with her hands" -- good point!

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Permalink Reply by l "lady lamb" to the inz on July 11, 2009 at 4:16pm

yeah t rex hands i love them. i stomp around my front yard exposing those babys! haha i try and make shapes with my hands and feel like im moving energy around me.
<3

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Permalink Reply by circularlogic on July 12, 2009 at 2:23pm

I love what Caroleeena does with her arms (I'm so lucky to hoop in Raleigh & see her at Hoop Jam every week!)

Some of her suggestions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaZyn4NGKac

& especially:
http://hooping.tribe.net/thread/22a0e821-a937-41ac-ac45-cf604ab6c299

p.s. Love your title!

p.p.s. GRRRR!

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Permalink Reply by Mad Maxine on July 13, 2009 at 7:44am

Watch Anah from Hoopalicious. She has a very graceful way of holding her hands, and does a ton of core hooping.
:)

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