How To Hula Hoop
April 3, 2012 in Asia, Children, Tutorials
Victoria is five-years-old. She’s here to school us on how to hula hoop. She’s adorable and she lives in Singapore.
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by Philo Hagen
by Philo Hagen
Brisbane City Council Gets Kids Hooping
March 30, 2012 in Australia / New Zealand, Children, Photos
In Brisbane, Australia, three of the City Council’s kids recently hooped it up to promote a hula hooping event at the Parkwood Sports Field. The Brisbane City Council is hosting a free hoop decorating and hooping class on Thursday, April 5th. Our hoopers are Avryl Betts (age 6), Annabella Hodges (age 5) and Ionna Melachroinos (age 7). Photo by Tim Marsden, courtesy of The Courier Mail. A Hooping.org Photo of the Day.
by Philo Hagen
The Tale of the Trailer House Mouse
March 26, 2012 in Children
A new children’s book written by none other than hooping grandmother Vicky Hallenbeck, known here at Hooping.org as Honeychile, spins up a tale for kids and adults with some hooping in it. It’s not the kids that are hooping it up though, it’s granny! In The Tale of the Trailer House Mouse things are different depending on the season. In summertime life for the mice living under the trailer house is a picnic. In winter, however, they must confront Ming, the Siamese cat guardian of the trailer house, or go hungry. The story has a surprising hero and reminds children and adults that respect for the age and experience of others can bring unexpected rewards. Written and illustrated by Vicky, the book is available in print and ebook on Amazon. She lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
by Philo Hagen
Word World Hula Hoops in Runaway O
March 26, 2012 in Children, Television
On the PBS Television show Word World a letter O makes a run for it in the episode entitled “Runaway O”, but what’s more exciting is dog teaches frog how to hula hoop. Dog actually has some mad hoops skills and frog is intimidated and doesn’t think he’ll be able to hula hoop, but he gives it a go anyway. Frog fails to keep the hoop up though, but frog is using what appears to be a small light-weight hoop. Then the Runaway letter O arrives, which is bigger and obviously heavier, and frog has no problem at all keeping the “hoop” spinning. Word World is a three-time Emmy Award-winning children’s television series partially funded by the United States Department of Education as part of the Ready To Learn literacy initiative targeted to 3- to 7-year olds. The show currently airs in 10 languages and in 90 countries.
by Philo Hagen
Pi Day Celebrations Hooped It Up
March 15, 2012 in Children, Fresh
Yesterday, March 14th or 3.14 was International Pi Day and to celebrate the magical mathematical figure that has everything to do with hooping, many hoopers took time out to spin things up. Students at Brielle Elementary School in Asbury Park, New Jersey, celebrated with a Pi-Palooza Festival involving 12 booths designed by eighth-graders including a booth to hula hoop in. Pi, signified by the Greek letter written as p, is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It can be used to determine things such as the area of a circle or the volume of a cylinder. Most people can tell you pi is equal to 3.14. The real number, however, does not stop there, but goes on infinitely. One of the booths was an American Pi-dol contest that asked students to recite as many decimals of pi as they could while wearing a blindfold. Jack Wheat took second place with 121 digits. “Pi is an irrational number. It never ends. I try to memorize the numbers in groups of 10,” Wheat said. The person often credited with beginning Pi Day is Larry Shaw, who as a physicist working in San Francisco held the first Pi Day celebration in 1988. For the real pi die-hards, pi time occurs exactly on March 14 at precisely 1:59 p.m. and 26 seconds which is symbolic of 3.1415926, the first 8 digits of pi. Did you hoop it up for Pi?
by Philo Hagen
Christina Munchinsky Hoops Up Canada’s Got Talent
March 14, 2012 in Canada, Children, Television
In this, the second week of auditions on Canada’s Got Talent, we didn’t see any hoopers spinning things up in Vancouver, British Columbia, thus putting an early end to the trend that we would be seeing a hooper move forward in every Canadian city that auditions were held. Last week we saw Aygul Memet spin her way beyond the judges in Toronto, Ontario, only to be followed by Dallas Arcand’s native hoop dance through to the next round in Calgary, Alberta. But what we didn’t find in Vancouver, we received in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Christina Munchinsky, a 15-year-old hula hooper who spun up a hoop stack total of 50 hoops and wowed all of the judges, successfully made her way beyond the entry gate as well, prompting Toronto Life Magazine to call hula hooping “the breakout trend this season”. Watch Christina’s Canada’s Got Talent audition below, along with a video we found of her taking the $500 first place prize last month in the Westmans Got Talent show in her hometown of Brandon, Manitoba: Read the rest of this entry →
