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This week — a very special edition of Hooposophy!

What happens when you put a random restriction on your hooping for the length of an entire song? You figure something else out. A lot of something “elses,” in fact. Here are SEVEN ideas to get you started.

Link to the article: http://superhooper.org/blog024

This was a very good article, LOVE it! This hits close to home because I’m very methodical sometimes with my hooping. I’ve tried all of the above I think. I particularly like to hone in on one skill. I posted in the Beginners Corner forum about fundamentals, getting completely solid on all the fundamentals of core hooping, being able to move the hoop up and down my body where I want it to be. A lot of people know more tricks than me, or are using smaller hoops than I currently use, but I feel so fulfilled by what I do, that I’m not in competition for that. One thing I will add, that I know Hooposophy is big on, SECOND CURRENT! Anything I do on the right, I do on the left. If I can do it to the right, I can do it to the right. Grace comes along more slowly, or sometimes what seems like impossibly on the left, but it does come, and making things equal not only tones and shapes my body evenly when I’m doing moves that require more strength, but it just gives me a sense of balance entirely. I always called myself “Left hand retarded” when I played piano (sorry thats not politically correct) but hooping is about breaking through that type of mentality. Like the article says, the limiting actually frees me. I like things to be crisp and clean, sometimes wobbly and wild, but the important thing is that I can control that through my experiences with these focused hooping exercises. Some days I’m athletic, some days I’m dancing, some days I’m interpretive dancing (aka flailing and loving it) some days I’m all about meditation, others I’m all about yoga ballet and salsa hooping. All around: Love it!