Gail Learns She Can Hoop After All
Gail writes: "I saw some hoops at the dollar store & bought the biggest one on a whim. I'm 48 & 5'11", so of course I couldn't keep the 33" hoop up at all. After I tried awhile & failed, I decided to check out the web & see if there were any hooping sites that could give me some tips. That's how I found y'all!
I went straight out the next morning & purchased my 3/4" poly tubing & connectors & got to work making a hoop that came to just above my naval when standing it up on it's diameter - and I was hooping in no time! Then I got some colored duct tape & vinyl tape & decorated it and another smaller one for one of the girls at work. That was 3 days ago & there is now a full-fledged hula hooping craze at work! I took in 2 more hoops today & everyone is trying it. Even the men are sneaking into the breakroom when no one is looking & giving my hoop a whirl. Most of the women are asking for a hoop to take home. In fact one went home with someone today!)
We're having the best time! Thanks so much for giving the instructions on what size hoop to use and how to make them. Thanks for all the smiles & laughter you've given to all of us at work! (Laughing while hooping really brings the heart rate up!) - Gail
Dear Gail -
Thanks for writing us Gail and Happy Hooping to you and everyone at work.
Philo Hagen, Editor
Hooping.org Magazine
Comments
RIGHT ON!
Posted by: holly hollinger | October 29, 2006 7:56 PM
Well Gail. I tried sending you this earlier, but it failed, so I am gonna send this to you again just in case. Do you mind?
I just want to tell you how I loved reading your little article, and I am just so impressed with how you began to hoop. I am also delighted to hear that you brought your hoops into work, and everyone just started hooping. That's great. You're awesome. You're never too old to start hooping. I am thirty-eight and started hooping two years ago when I joined Curves in Santa Monica where I live. One of the trainers who used to work there makes and sells her own hoops. I picked one up, started hooping for ten minutes, and learned that I will be hooping for the rest of my life, God willing. I am also blind, and can only see light and dark. I love this so much because I feel a total sense of freedom when doing this, and you don't need to see to do this. It is just a matter of feel and thinking about positive things. I am volonteering at the Junior Blind of America, teaching hooping to the blind adults. They love it so much, they always look foward to every Wednesday because Wednesdays are the evenings I teach this to. I eventually would love the pleasure of teaching this to sighted people, as well and maybe make a little profit doing this.
So, Gail, you keep up whatever you're doing because you and everyone around you who hoop are just so awesome.
Kelly
Posted by: Kelly | November 19, 2006 5:40 PM