A Few Tips on Leg & Knee Hooping
Interested in doing some simple below the waist hooping? There are tons of tricks to do with your legs and knees once you get these basics down so mastering these basics are really worth the effort. When teaching students how to get to hoop going around their knees, I tell them a few important hints to help them along their way:
1. Try to imagine your knees as your hips, just as your left and right hip have to move the hoop now your knees have to.
2. When the hoop is moving from your hips to your knees, speed up your hoop. You need to go a bit faster to catch the hoop around your knees because you are working harder against gravity.
3. Initially I tell them to put one foot a bit in front of the other, try to have the hoop hit just above your knee-cap on the forward foot and and just above your calf on the back foot.
4. It is going to take a bunch of trying before you get it right.
5. To get the hoop back up to your waist, as it goes around your knees, lift up one knee to "hand" the hoop to your thigh or waist.
Time to practice!
Comments
Minutes after reading this, I went out and practiced knee hooping...and I've got it down, now! Thanks for tips!
Posted by: Valerie | September 17, 2003 9:20 PM
This has totally been "knee week" here on hooping.org, and my knees are SO BANGED UP FROM IT! Ack, the bruises! The bruises!
Posted by: Ariel | September 17, 2003 10:40 PM
Valerie WAY TO GO! I am so glad this helped! Now try keeping the hoop on your thighs for a while before you let it drop down to your knees.
Ariel,....there is nothing sexier than hoop bruises! Keep at it girl!
Posted by: Stefan | September 18, 2003 4:02 AM
I have finally joined the knee hooping club as well! Thanks to Stefan's tips and a lot of persistence at yesterday's BAH gathering, I finally did it! And I've never been sorer. :)
Posted by: Vera | September 22, 2003 9:05 AM
this is a very good tip but sometimes you get tired. But i heard in a web site if you do the hula hooping for 10min. You'll lose 2in off each time you do it and thats good, it's healthy. i stop hulahooping at 13 i use to be so good i use to spin it around my head i did amazing things. But now i don't even know how to hula hoop on my hipthat good, on my ankles or knees. i need lots of help. one good tip my friend is that when you are doing this think about the person you love and that your doing it for them.
Posted by: kimmy | July 13, 2004 9:32 AM