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Hooping, like any other culture, has its legends, myths, and folklore. Let’s start with what we know. Our shared hooping folklore seems to begin with the jam-band The String Cheese Incident (pictured above). At some point, as the story goes, String Cheese threw jumbo-sized hoops out into the audience. A few of those in attendance at these early traveling shows were so enamored with these hoops, and how they felt in them, that they brought their potential home with them… and ran with it.

So hoops at String Cheese shows across the nation inspired our first and seminal hoopers. Okay. But how did the band come upon the idea of making big hoops to begin with?

http://www.hooping.org/2011/01/the-legend-of-the-hoop-that-started-a-revolution/#more-8354