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Permalink Reply by Agillustration on March 31, 2010 at 5:19pm

ouch how bad did u bash your head with the hoop to get cauliflower! , although a few time i have hit my nose so hard i hard to check to see if there was blood ! :0

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Permalink Reply by Shaina Rae on March 31, 2010 at 7:02pm

Very very hard. I actually stopped hooping for a week and a half because when I tried to hoop I was so tense I was going to wack myself good again. My ear is still bruised on the edge and can't sleep on it without a good ache. The swelling occurred for a few hours after I did it and didn't go down with ice. The gym I hoop at had boxers in the same room with me who knew exactly what happened and headed me in the direction to get my ear drained. Exciting!

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Permalink Reply by Jane "Electric Blue" on March 31, 2010 at 7:27pm

Yeah I get this all the time.

At the youth circus that i work at we call it 'Hey mum look at me syndrome'.

The good news is that the more you hoop in front of people the less it will affect the tricks you know. Though i still find that with new tricks it takes a while to reach that point again. I think it has some thing to do with the extra addrelin or as we call it mission goo, that you get pumping round your body when you are performing so the more you practice the more the tricks become second nature and the nerves don't affect those tricks.

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Permalink Reply by Scunshine on April 1, 2010 at 10:41am

My version of this is "hubby come over here and see this trick I just mastered!"

which inevitably ends with the hoop smacking me in the face for my insolence ha ha. "how dare you think you've mastered me!"

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Permalink Reply by Tangled Macrame on April 1, 2010 at 2:02pm

ROFL! That's me EXACTLY! "Honey, look at me.....THUMP!" The hoops rocket-launches toward the nearest wall or worse-still, his head!

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Permalink Reply by Ashley McDonald on April 1, 2010 at 4:32pm

Haha, I have that same problem too!!

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Permalink Reply by Keira on March 31, 2010 at 11:16pm

Oh man! I went to the gym just the other night and I usually get the dance studio to myself, because well no class at 930pm, and not many people either. I go with my boyfriend and he usually brings a friend to work out with but they never bother me until it is time to leave. Anywho! the friend brought his sister and she said she was going to use the tredmill, but as soon as I get into my groove, and start trying out sustained spinning for the first time she walks in one me!! She scared me! I wasnt suspecting it and I stopped my spinning right away, I got dizzy and a little sick feeling, and then suddenly really nervous. She was in there the rest of the night and I couldnt do a damn thing, I felt like a fool. So, i just did basic hooping working on my core muscles and foot work along with some chest and reversals. -sigh- but i felt like a fool.
LOLZ!
I just cant hoop around people, I think the hoop is just very personal to me and I feel like someone is watching me dance naked when they see me in the hoop.
Anyone else get the same feel??

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Permalink Reply by Scunshine on April 1, 2010 at 10:40am

I had something similar happen to me the last time I hooped outside. I went to the park and, seeing some skaters in the section where I usually hoop, I went to a different part with some benches around and started. about 10 minutes in I saw this lady walking towards me and I just assumed she would keep walking by but she got really close to me (almost getting hit, woops) and sat right down on one of the benches. I felt sooo awkward but didn't want to be rude and just leave, so I kept hooping. I was about ten times worse as I usually am. It didn't help that she kept asking me questions, not even about hooping (how old are you, did you watch the oscars, etc)... Never realized how important my flow is, lol.

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Permalink Reply by Tyler Icarus on April 1, 2010 at 3:08pm

I started around the same time you did apparently and I have suffered my share of bumps bruises and blood splatters. Still it never even remotely deters me from hooping. I think my most embarrassing hooping oops, outside of the usual whoopsees, happened during my first night glow hooping at a club (I was the only one glow-anything) I think I tossed Endora (my hoop) half a dozen times and couldn't do much more than basic hooping so I singled myself out and then made myself look incompetent. The club manager asked me to put my hoop away :( much sadness. I have had better club experiences since then including being up on stage.

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Permalink Reply by Zbena on April 2, 2010 at 5:23pm

lets just put it this way, move the beer bottle before you attempt drunken hooping, especially if you are trying to impress people.

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Permalink Reply by Harlow [Hulacination Hoops] on April 4, 2010 at 5:57pm

I've been hooping for the same amount of time you have and although I haven't had too many embarassing moments, there is the "I can only do it if nobody is watching factor" which often happens with one legged hooping for me :P The first time I performed for people I had the hoop around my knees and just thought I'd give it a go, even though I hadn't got it down properly. To my surprise I did it, and clapping thus followed :P BUT, I guess it got me a little too sure of myself and the other weekend when I was busking, I tried it again, and managed to do it but no one but my friend who was taking a break from his contact juggling saw me, so I decided to try again when people were actually walking past.

So some people show up and they look genuinley interested as I lift my leg from the hoop, and then... I lose my balance and end up hopping as the hoop falls to the floor and all those people just walked away... and to further bruise my ego my friend claps and says, "We just lost some money because of that."

Will not try again until I have good balance u___u

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Permalink Reply by Stevie Cee on April 5, 2010 at 11:10am

I was once hooping and I smacked my mouth. my lip got all bloody. it was so bad! Also once i was hooping blindfolded and I walked right into the glass wall of the dance studio =\

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