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Permalink Reply by Ayanna Kafi on May 28, 2010 at 10:31am

It's not just you! My 2 year old has been hit 4 times so far. Our living room doesn't have much space other then my orbit. Walking into the room, it's impossible not to see me but she decides to walk into the hoop anyway. It aggravates me to no end so I don't hoop around her anymore unless she's busy. I wake up around 4 to get my hoop time in.

Permalink Reply by beth lavinder on May 28, 2010 at 12:09pm

There's a certain age where "hoop awareness" kicks in. Having hooped for years at Weaver Street Market in Carrboro has taught me not to assume the really young children understand that the pretty swirly shiny thing spinning around my body can hurt. When my hoop has made contact with little ones, I think I am sometimes more devastated than they are! It's a horrible feeling. I think that some of the sustained spinning that we were doing on the Weaver Street lawn was a technique that helped us keep a 360 degree view around our bodies.

StudentPermalink Reply by Simone Van Iderstine on May 28, 2010 at 12:35pm

Nope, its not must you. My little man loves that "game." I give him some finger paints and paper and let him go to it and that usually distracts him from my hoop. There's always a big mess to clean up after but he has fun and I get my hoop time in :-D

Permalink Reply by Cally Chavez on May 28, 2010 at 1:02pm

I give opal her own hoop so she can practice with me... she will be 2 in July so we'll see how brave she gets yet.... When she ISN"T hooping though, i just try and run around her and play chase and work on my running hand hooping maybe some horizontal jumpthroughs if I get a few feet on her. I've hit her right in the gut before and it was pretty upsetting for the both of us but she got over it and so did I... now when she wants to come up she just blocks her face and gets really squinty eyed. I also live for nap times haha. Good luck to you and your crazy kamikazi man!

StudentPermalink Reply by Ishkara on May 28, 2010 at 1:17pm

It is the age. By the time my guys turned about 3.5, they would ask me to stop whenever they wanted by. Before then, it was, literally (pardon the pun) hit and miss. Gradually, I realized that it was better to practice off the body hooping or hooping more with upper body (chest, shoulders, overhead) when they were around. Nowadays, they are 4.5, and 7, they find great pleasure in having limbo contests under the hoop, and even sometimes, request that I knee hoop so they can army crawl beneath. Thank goodness I have graduated to lighter, softer hoops. I now hoop with a 1/2" 70 psi hoop. Have you tried going super light and bendy with your hoop?

Permalink Reply by Amber T on May 28, 2010 at 2:24pm

My son is actually doing it on PURPOSE. Which is why it annoys me so, he stopa whatever task he's doing to follow me around running into the hoop PURPOSELY, he knows its hurts when he gets hit. Weirdo!!!

Permalink Reply by kyndkristen on May 29, 2010 at 6:09pm

My son is a bit too young to have fun with this game but I'm sure it's right around the corner. My cat and parrot, however, love to walk right under the hoop. I don't know what it is about the cat but she totally asks to have her head completely unhinged. It's comical and it provides an interesting challenge... but annoying, for sure.

-Kristen

p.s. excellent grammar!

Permalink Reply by spiralroot on January 4, 2012 at 9:48am

my two year old does this.l've hit him in the head once and now i just drop the hoop on purpose everytime he get stoo close, i have to hoop at nap time or try to dstract him with toys and sneak away to get any hooping in,i feel like that sounds awful of me :/ he likes to get in the hoop with me too,it doesn't matter that he has his own. he just wants to play with mommy.lol.