Category Archives: Africa

Hooping Spins the News in South Africa

Harriet Walker writes for South Africa’s Independent Online, “Beset by memories of poor childhood co-ordination and playground ignominy, I approached this year’s latest fitness craze with a certain sense of gloom. But it’s hard to…

Alice in Hoopland

The theme for Arise and Hoop’s latest hoop jam was “Down The Rabbit Hole”. Join Alice and the others in Hoopland as they spin things up at Maynardville Park in Cape Town, South Africa. Soundtrack…

Cape Town Hula Hoops for the Animals

Psycho Stomper is a Cape Town trance party where all the proceeds go to the Wellington SPCA, a local animal shelter. Shouniez & Shaheen Van Der Schyff got the idea of initiating a “Hoop-a-thon” at…

Christmas Gift from Wyoming to South Africa

A couple of years ago Natallie De Leon Brooks met Nicky Jansen van Vuuren online, a woman that had been volunteering as a translator at Nthebe, a farmschool in South Africa. After learning about the…

Amazing Hoop Race South Africa: Results and More

The Amazing Hoop Race, Hooping.org’s new revolutionary contest that began with fourteen teams competing in a virtual hula hoop race around the world, landed this week in Johannesburg, South Africa, where they received challenge scores…