Comment by Rose on January 5, 2011 at 5:44pm

I love her classes too! The mini class was my favorite!!!!!

Comment by Suzanne "Celestia Blue" Steed on January 5, 2011 at 9:27pm

YEA!!!!  I just signed up for Mini's!!  Woohoo!!  Between that and trying to get chest hooping, I believe I will be kept pretty busy for a while...I AM SOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!! (for BOTH of us..lol)  I had a really good hooping session yesterday where I totally concentrated on just doing cycles and swinging the hoop around my body and stirring the pot.  I am AMAZED at how sore I got from just those few things and I thought I had the simple act of passing it behind my back down but it is so important to focus on one thing and then you realize.."I'm not as good at it as I thought!"  There is always room for improvement and I am enjoying the process of discovering this!  I too am looking forward to coming year and filling it with as much hooping as possible!!  {{{{{HUGS}}}}}

Comment by Shelley "HoopyChick" Gilbertson on January 6, 2011 at 6:39am

Yea, Suzanne!  I'll be seeing you in the classroom.  I love minis.  They're hard, but so far they haven't frustrated me.  Just remember going into them that they are indeed hard and give yourself some slack.  I don't mean like a defeatist attitude like "these are too hard, and I'll never get them."  More like, "yeah, these little babies are tricky, and I'm going to have to work slowly and carefully."  Then you'll take the frustration as it comes.  I feel so soothed when I play with my minis, and I'm taking it ultra slow. For the first two or three weeks, literally all I did was work on my planes and my timing.  I didn't even attempt a weave or a turn at all.  Now I've got some of the basic weaves down and the basic turning (turning with the hoops going in the opposite directions is a doozy, so I'm still working on that), and I'll be moving next to the 3-beat weave and the reel turns. 

 

I'm glad you're having good luck with focusing on simple things.  Isn't it kinda' fun just to really concentrate on one or two things.  Even if they're simple moves, you can learn so much about making them great and about all the variations you can do with them.  It's so weird, but the little ol' backwards weave has really changed my outlook on hooping.  I'm amazed at how much I can do with a backwards weave.

 

Post lots in the classroom! I always feel like I'm the only student there, badgering Sandra!  LOL!

Comment by Svea on April 19, 2011 at 1:15pm

The Breaks & Reversals class is my favourite <3

I just sat down and wrote down all the hoop tricks I know to create new combinations and increase my flow. Taking it slow sounds good... I'm still having problems with flowing, maybe I just need some extra muscle memory ;)

Comment