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Permalink Reply by joanne on December 5, 2010 at 4:54pm

GO GIRL!! i do the drills and watch the tutorials and try as hard as i can i cannot get a 3 beat weave ( it's my goal with poi and mini's) Having fun is where i started and then it went to skill development and now it is back to fun but with the skills i have developed. The BEST THING to do is watch kids. I actually teach kids poi and hoop and diabolo and juggling and they don't know the "Rules" and they have so much fun and loose track of the skills i was trying to teach them and then I try what they are doing!! Kids just feel it and do it and it is so freeing to watch them. it is inspirational to see an adult express the fun i have seen with my kids classes. Thank you for your story.

Permalink Reply by AlliHoop on December 5, 2010 at 11:11pm

Aren't minis sooooo much fun!? I've been spinning minis for almost 3 months now and I have to say that I've played with them everyday since I made my first set. I got bored one day and decided I would make a set of minis just to see how I liked them and I honestly can't put them down. Sometimes I have to make myself put them down and take a shower or go to bed. I'm so addicted, hahaha. But I remember when I first started spinning minis, I just had no idea what to really do with them & they kept flying off my hands. But once I figured out how to spin them forwards and backwards, I just jammed out and had fun with them. I ended up teaching myself quite a bit of tricks by just messing around with them. After about a week, I bought Safire's minis class and my true love for mini hooping was born. Safire's tutorials are fantastic & I highly recommend them. Also, good thinking on practicing with a set of poi. I borrowed a set from a friend of mine that spins poi & they were very especially useful while trying to learn the 3 beat weave.
Best of luck to you with your minis! They're not easy to learn, but trust me, all those times of hitting yourself & all the tape marks on your walls will be worth it! :)

Permalink Reply by Shelley "HoopyChick" Gilbertson on December 6, 2010 at 6:55am

Thanks guys! Yep, there's definitely a place for practicing drills and working on really perfecting technique, but ya' gotta' just flow sometimes and let things happen. It puts the fun into it for sure!

I am in Sandra's Minis class (and some of her other classes), and I just love them!