Happy Birthday fellow Hooper! Hope it's a good one :)

Likewise Amy I can't even begin to explain how exciting it was to meet so many passionate hoopers. Thank you for all your advice and I will email you about the fitness thing. Thanks :) hope to see you in the fall. Keep Hooping!

Hey-I recognize you from some of the hoop workshops from wildfire!

hi amy, thanks for the friendship. i am in eastern ct and hoping to meet people to hoop with sometime. most people dont even know what im talking about when i mention hooping around here lol

hey... do you like the disco biscuits?

Hello new HOOPpal!! what part of of CT are you in??? I am itching to find an indoor venue so i can get some girls together, but until i do im dealing with crazy indoor hoopfever, waiting for spring to roll in!!I live in the norwich/newlondon area (im not from CT, so i have no clue how far this is from you, but if your interested i would love to check out one of your classes with hopes of maybe getting a group started in SECT in the future!!!
Luv,KristyBe
-aka-
your local "hopehoopin'mama

That is a lot of students! I hope everything goes well for you. :)

Hiya. Yea i jsut got my certification and i can not wait to teach more. It brings such joy to share.

Hi Amy, thanks for the message!
I've been hooping just over a year now, and yes, I progressed fairly fast - but that has a story. So. . .STORY TIME!

The first time I saw hooping was live, when SaFire came to my school. After reviewing my rhythmic gymnastics skills (with a rhythmic gymnastics hoop which is basically a really light, really thin, really small hoop) I tracked SaFire down and bought a REAL hoop off of her. I tried it out, and it was way easier than my gymnastics hoop, so my confidence was REALLY high. She took a video. . . I watched it. . . I was horrible! So, I started working really hard, practicing all the time and taking video all the time, so I could see what I was doing wrong and figure out how to fix it. Within four months, I was performing and within seven/eight I was performing professionally.

I think the only reason I progressed so fast was just because I had such strong DRIVE to get better. I still have that drive, just now that I've found my style in the hoop, it's a little more laid back ;) Practice is the key. At one point last January I was practising up to five hours a day. Right now, I'm lucky if I get four hours a week in between shows and exams at school, but I try my best to make it a priority.

I hope that actually answers your question!
~Solace