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video of the day


This weekend I was privileged enough to meet Deanne of HoopLovers.com at Hoop Camp 2008. Here she is with the other Tokyo Hoop Stars enticing everyone in Japan to join the love revolution.

trick of the week


This week's hoop trick is a foot interception that comes to us from Crissy Gugler of Santa Clara, California. She notes, "Corby calls this the 'Beckham Catch', which I think sounds pretty nifty."

track of the week

thievery corporation: mandala

This week's hoop track is from the new release by Thievery Corporation and it's called "Mandala" from the new album "Radio Retaliation." Merriam-Webster defines "Mandala" as "a Hindu or Buddhist graphic symbol of the universe ; specifically : a circle enclosing a square with a deity on each side that is used chiefly as an aid to meditation." Featuring the stylings of Anoushka Shankar, I can't help but think they wrote this specifically for us to hoop to. Check it out in our Hoop Sounds listening station up top, and listen to and download the other tracks from the new album on iTunes by clicking:

Thievery Corporation - Radio Retaliation - Mandala (feat. Anoushka Shankar)

'Désir': Marawa Ibrahim Dazzles

marawa Joy Goodwin writes, "Down under the Brooklyn Bridge, near the site of the old Fulton Fish Market, the portable carnival known as Spiegelworld... [debuts thier] brand-new "Désir," billed as a cirque show with a through line (à la Cirque du Soleil) about the backstage lives and loves of a collection of 1920s Parisian nightclub performers." How is it? She writes, "Ironically, the best acts have little to do with eroticism — and everything to do with pacing. Marawa Ibrahim comes out in a skirt made of phallic bananas, fishnets, and heels, but that's not why her act works. Her set takes flight because Ms. Ibrahim is gifted not only with a phenomenal talent for keeping Hula-hoops aloft — she can spin two dozen of them at once — but with a theatrical flair: She's a rubber-faced goof with impeccable timing. As she steadily builds her act to a series of ever-higher peaks, she punctuates her feats with delicious expressions: a pursed-lip Betty Boop 'ooh,' or a coy flutter of her false eyelashes." New York Sun. The show runs in New York through November 2nd.

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