Comment by Rose on May 17, 2010 at 12:23pm

Keep posting videos!!!!!!!!!
Others can watch and enjoy or not watch and hopefully not leave mean comments. This site is usually very positive. Safire's "Enjoy the process" was the video of the year, so enjoy the process.

Comment by Becc☆ on May 17, 2010 at 1:01pm

Let me start by saying... Please don't take down any of your videos!!

The timing of this journal entry couldn't have been any more coincidental, for me. I fire hooped for the first time last night, and was just thinking about how far I've come since I started hooping, but was still feeling a little awkward and unsure of myself at the same time. Your videos have been a source of inspiration since I joined hoopcity, so today I took a look at some of your older videos... starting with your first one ever. Perhaps it is because I know how graceful and beautiful your flow is now, and how you can execute tricks perfectly while making them look effortless, but I found that first video to be just as encouraging as the more recent ones, and exactly what I needed to see at this point in time. Seeing you struggle with a move, or mess up, and then seeing your face light up with this huge smile before you jump right back into it and try it again - that's what inspires me. You could have edited the goofs out, but you didn't.

Professional videos are awesome too, of course. But I don't think that showing your jam sessions or practices makes you unprofessional. I aspire to be a graceful, fluid hooper like you one day, and it's reassuring to see that you get frustrated when learning something too, or that you didn't nail that new trick immediately either. I'm even pondering going home after work and posting one of my awkward, goofy videos!

Don't let someone's comment get you down. If posting your jam sessions are what make you feel alive- keep doing it!!! I can't wait to see the next one :)

Comment by leah the shoe on May 17, 2010 at 3:35pm

Hmm, I took down some of my videos once I got a new camera because they were SO dark you could barely see me.

But I don't think it's unprofessional on here to have all those videos. I think if you were trying to market or sell something (hoops, classes) you could put together a specific, professional profile to show off. But I don't you think you look unprofessional posting your jams. It is so awesome to have that record of progress!

May I ask what the comment was?

FOLLOW YOUR HEART <3

Comment by JenniS on May 17, 2010 at 3:55pm

I love your videos, they are always so inspiring <3 please don't stop sharing them :D

Comment by spider baby on May 17, 2010 at 7:54pm

i like your vids too and have found them helpful when tutorials and fun to watch when you are just jamming.
i think you should post way more often...just my opinion

Comment by Mrs. Skittles of Sparkle & Burn* on May 18, 2010 at 6:58am

Don't take them down! it is beautiful and inspiring to see the learning process each hooper goes through. I have not made a video in awhile either... I have been busy with classes and performances lately.

Comment by Nichole Bair SenseSublimity on May 18, 2010 at 9:06am

The message was on youtube....im assuming from another hooper. She stated she was giving me advice and I should do what she did which was (since she started teaching and performing) to take down the massive amounts of videos and try not to put up so many in the future because it seemed more professional. Ne ways im sooo thankful to you guys! Youv really made me feel so much better about this situation! Becca your comment really warmed my heart. Im inspired by the fact that you were inspired :) Your right I should follow my heart I guess we all have our moments of uncertainty...im lucky to have this community to bounce me right back on track <3 <3 <3

Comment by AJ on May 18, 2010 at 9:53pm

I've only been hooping for a few months, and to me it's more encouraging seeing how hoopers have progressed rather than seeing a ton of professional videos. Knowing that you're not at a dead end and that others didn't get it right the first time either encourages me to keep on trying.

Comment by Khaanee on May 22, 2010 at 10:54am

Put them all up!!!!! This is where we come to share and just revel in the fun and let go! My videos are sometimes uuuuuuglyyyy...lol. I don't care. When I am here I am among hoopers who can love and appreciate the love of the hoop and all the joy it brings. Besides, it gives you such a sense of accomplishment to look back and say.." wow look how far I have come!" That keeps me going and striving to improve. Besides, being goofy, having a good day hooping or a bad day hooping, making mistakes ,being awesome, and most of all when you can laugh at yourself is a great way to just let yourself shine! If your videos , good or bad, touch someone and inspire them to hoop, that is worth so much more than being so professional looking that people think.." wow that is great, but I could never do that." There is so much more magic "in the circle" than one person can ever control and keep for themselves,,,you have to let it go ,,let the flow spin beauty all around you and everyone you meet. .......I just feel inspired today! :)

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