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A lot of this is practice I think. Search videos and/or threads about incorporating dance into your hooping. I know Caroleena focuses a lot on developing dance skills. She had a tutorial on different ways to turn, ways to move your arms, etc. A lot of people say to put all the tricks you know into a hat, draw three, and work on transitioning just those three in the order you drew them. Itl challenge your creativity and get you some interesting combos to work on. Check out the flow group threads. Good luck!

Hello Sarah

Here’s something I find useful. I call it “One Beat Wonders.”

Choose 3-4 movements that you know well and like a lot. Think about how they might best fit together – how each could transition most effortlessly into the other. Do each movement for 4 counts, moving into the next. When you’ve got the hang of it, cut the count in half so that you’re transitioning more quickly and thinking/planning it less. When ready, make each movement one beat. Do the series over and over again until you’re not thinking at all. Soon enough, the entire series will be as committed to your muscles memory as is each move individually.

Work on several 3-5 movement series and then start putting each of those together. Slowly but surely, your body will start learning what are natural transitions for the movements it likes best … and will perform them will less input from your brain

Here’s a little blog entry about it: http://superhooper.org/blog00c.html

Lara

Lara, thats fantastic advice!!!

A couple of things I do is perfect really easy moves, passing the hoop around your body for example. Painfully simple, but a very good way for transitioning between moves. Also just pick any two moves out of a few you know. Then try several ways to move from one to the other, there is always a way!