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Hooping Idol 2: The Grand Finale Results Show

May 24, 2012 in Europe, Features, Fresh, LED Hoops, Male

In our Hooping Idol 2 Finale Results Show, Hooping.org salutes all four of our outstanding finalists because they all rock! They’re all winners in our book, though only one is hooping away with our Hooping Idol Ultimate Prize Package. We invite and encourage all of you to share the love with all of our finalists today.

We started off six weeks ago by introducing you to our 20 selected finalists for Season Two. They got all decked out in polyester for Hooping Idol Disco Week and then we said our Disco Farewells and announced Circus Week. Sixteen spun things up under the Big Top for a Hooping.org record breaking Hooping Idol Circus Week. 6 more went home and we introduced Slow Jams Week. Our Top Ten slowed things down with soft rock songs and slow jams for Slow Jams Week and 3 more were eliminated. The Super Seven performed for us and three more were eliminated, bringing us to the final four and The Hooping Idol 2 Grand Finale. Our four finalists are (in alphabetical order) Chad Forsberg of Boulder, Colorado, USA, Hannah Flett of Exeter, England, UK, Laura Orcutt of Hopkintown, Rhode Island, USA, and Lila-Chupa Hoops of Paris, France. Which one is our new Hooping Idol? Watch The Grand Finale Results Show to find out.

Hooping Idol 2 Prizes

Thank you to all of our Hooping Idol 2 Ultimate Prize Pack sponsors for their generosity. This year our prizes included a rockin’ registration to one of Hoop Revolution’s three upcoming trainings for 2012 (scheduled to be held in Arlington, Texas, New York and San Francisco) to learn even more from the Mother of Hoop Dance herself – Anah “Hoopalicious” Reichenbach (a $600 Value) – plus they’re getting a pair of Hoop Revolution HoopBooty™ pants (a $100.00 Value). Hooping.org wants to really support our new Hooping Idol in being able to take things to the next level as well, so we’re giving them three months of site-wide graphic advertising (a $600 value). And our winner will be looking like a Hooping Idol with their brand new Helix Hoop from Proton Labs featuring 256 visual patterns, the most visual patterns included with any hoop (a $350 value). And they’ll be setting the world on fire with a new five-wick fire hoop from Harmonic Hoops and a Pocket/8-piece Collapsible Travel Hoop in the design of their choice from Troo Hoops (a $70 value). Not enough hoops yet? We didn’t think so. Our winner is also scoring a pair of color polypro twin hoops from Superhooper.org (a $60 value) and a $75 gift certificate to the HoopSupplies.com store. But wait, there’s more. They’re also getting a 2013 Dudes of Hooping Calendar (a $28 value), a dazzling Marawa The Amazing glitter hoop (a $25 value) and a one-of-a-kind super special Babz Robinson Sock Monster (priceless). When we said Ultimate Prize Package, we weren’t kidding and our prize package this year is worth over $2,000! For our second place finisher, they’ll be getting a pair of color polypro twins from Superhooper.org, a $30 gift certificate to the HoopSupplies.com store, an off-body fire hoop from Harmonic Hoops and an iTunes gift card. Our third place finisher will also be getting a pair of color polypro twin hoops from Superhooper.org and a $20 gift certificate to the HoopSupplies.com store. Hooping.org would like to thank all of our prize sponsors for their generosity and support of Hooping Idol. Thank you all.

The Hooping Life Spins Denver

May 17, 2012 in The Hooping Life

The Hooping Life in Denver

The Hooping Life in Denver

Sara Janssen of The Happy Hoop shares her Hooping Life experience. She writes, “When I first started hooping, there were whispers that a hooping documentary called The Hooping Life was being made… the first of it’s kind. Two years later, I finally had the pleasure of seeing it in Denver! It was the perfect start for my journey back to hooping after giving birth to little Emma 2 weeks ago.” Hooping.org congratulates Sara on the new baby. What did Sara think of the film? “The actual documentary was very well done with years of research and interviews included. We laughed and hollered, but also saw that hooping has truly CHANGED LIVES forever. From the inner city hoop programs to coming out of depression, we were all reminded of the power of the hoop.” The Hooping Life is screening in Milton Keynes, UK and Houston, Texas, USA this weekend so check it out. As for the Denver screening, there were many live performances at the event as well and Sara captured a few of them on video including GroovinMeGzz of The Hooping Body, Nick Guzzardo and Kit of the NicKitteam, and Danielle Odette of The Spin Summit with Kanyon Walker. Sara says, “Excuse the shaky camera! Emma woke up right at they were starting!” Check them out below: Read the rest of this entry →

Betty Hoops Sets New World Hooping Record

April 12, 2012 in Fresh

We’ve been telling you about the world record attempt that was being made by Betty Hoops, aka Betty Shurin, and she successfully broke the world long distance hoop running record at the Hollywood Half Marathon. Betty Hoops is a Guinness World record holder for many hoop running distances and she and Team Hoop raised money for the Los Angeles Youth network. Apparently everyone on Team Hoop hooped and ran all 13.1 miles without dropping the hoop once – congratulations Betty! Betty lives in Aspen, Colorado, USA.

It’s a World Record Weekend For Betty Hoops

April 6, 2012 in Fresh

Betty Hoops on the News Betty Hoops, aka Betty Shurin, is running the Hollywood Half Marathon this weekend, hula hooping all the while of course. She’s out to set a new world record which is why she is featured on CBS KCAL 9 News where she talks about hooping, fitness and more. Betty set the record for speed and distance in Hoop Running in the Bolder Boulder 10k in 2005. For the past four years, she has broken her times, with her time to beat being 1 hour and 14 minutes. Betty plans to run twice that distance with her team of runners this weekend, a group known as Team Hoop who will be protecting her hoop from being bumped while she runs. Her hoop’s speed has been clocked at 2-revs per second. This means that she will have to generate enough core power to achieve 3,510 rotations to keep the hoop spinning for the entire Hollywood half Marathon. All money she raises will go to the the Los Angeles Youth Network, a non-profit organization whose mission is to end homelessness one child at a time, by providing shelter, food and counseling for the abused, neglected and abandoned. She lives in Colorado. Watch the news report below: Read the rest of this entry →

Chad Forsberg: Dub Atomic

April 5, 2012 in LED Hoops, Male, Videos

Chad Forsberg hoops at sunset. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA. Soundtrack: “Set Fire To The Rain (Moto Blanco Club Mix)” by Adele (on Soundcloud).

The Hoopligans Have Greeley Spinning

March 27, 2012 in Fresh

The Hoopligans

The Hoopligans

Ask the Greeley, Colorado, trio who make up “The Hoopligans” about their favorite part of performing, and they all seem to agree that it’s when older ladies come up to them to say, “Oh my gosh, it’s back!” Yes, hula hoops are back and the trio “dance choreographed routines in wild costumes, perform tricks with names such as The Vortex and swish their hips to hoops that are on fire or glow in LED pink, purple or all the colors of a Christmas tree”. The three are in such demand, in fact, that they want to do hoop at least semi-professionally. Two sisters, Joy “Blissful Shadow” Watts, 23, and Sam, 20, have performed with Katara “Kataradactyl” Haagensen for a couple of years now. The Watts’ sisters started performing with Greeley’s belly dancing tribes and Joy had been hooping with Haagensen and they put two and two together. After coming up with a few dances they started booking gigs and now they’re looking for teach others as well, including fitness. “I lost 20 pounds doing this,” Haagensen told the Greeley Tribune, adding, “That wasn’t on purpose either, it was just a result of hooping.”