well yesterday was the day i had challenged myself to public hoop...

saturday came and went, and although i made sure i had my hoop with me in

my truck while out doing chores, alas i did not pull it out.

even though i lost the challenge it is far from over..

i am determined to succeed and i know if i carry it with me at all times it WILL happen..

looking at my chalk board i see that i had written "you can do it !"...i have changed it to

"I can do it !"... power of…  

so i have decided after reading all the posts people have written about over coming their shyness that i am going to break through the mental block !! i have posted short pieces of tricks but never a full video.. i have hooped in my yard where no one can see me..but mostly hoop in my house..i have hooped in front of my boyfriend (who lives with me ) and a couple friends ..so i am going to take my hoop some where and hoop even if there are other people...ESPECIALLY if there are.

i will set…  

holy crap i think i have finally got this..

it has taken me so long and then boom i think i just did it..

but it seemed to make sense so i must be doing it wrong..lol..

and when i say so long i mean months..i even learned some poi just

so it might make me understand the arm movements for this move..

(i love poi now though)

i will practice a bit today then post a vid if i can get the camera working..

i am hoping someone will confirm that it is indeed the 3 beat weave…  

I have to confess my hooping has become very very sporadic...VERY sporadic.

Which makes no sense considering it is summer and hooping outside is so much better than inside..

but summer also means i get to spend time in my shop doing art.. my shop is not heated so winter i don't get much welding in, so hooping in cramped spaces in the house in winter happens daily.

Between work, shop time, friends, looking for a house to buy, and packing up my current abundance of accumulated crap…  

well as you know i did my 1st burn on my birthday sat night..

after the insane amount of material i had read on safety and other peoples experiences and all the fire hoop videos i watched i was still unprepared for how warm and big the flames were when the wicks were lit..lol.. everything i had practiced went out of my head.. i was nervous.. ok i was scared.. but i remembered reading some where in my studies someone said " when the flames are freaking you out at the beginning, don't think…