Brandy Hug: Inside The Hoop
Back in 2008 Brandy Hug was visiting a friend when she saw her pick up a hoop and start playing with it in her backyard. “At the time I was 265 pounds and miserable and…
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Colleen de la Huup: Inside the Hoop
Back in 2007, two poi spinners made a New Year’s Eve resolution to exercise more, not knowing where it would end up leading them. “My friend Jennifer was surfing around the web one day and…
Jewelz Hanssens: Inside The Hoop
Back in 2006 Jewelz Hanssens’ sister, Lisa, was doing trapeze classes and she went to see her end of term show. Inspired, she decided trapeze would be a fun way to build up her upper…
Jo Mondy: Inside The Hoop
Five years ago, Jo Mondy’s best mate told her about a hooping class she was going to. Living in Sydney, Australia, at the time, her friend told her the class was taught by a woman…
Luna Breeze: Inside The Hoop
When Luna Breeze was 14-years-old, her sister Shakti Sunfire took her to Red Rocks Amphitheater near Morrison, Colorado, to see a band called The String Cheese Incident. Luna explained, “At the time she was simply…
Olive Oyl: Inside The Hoop
It all started for Olive Oyl, aka Olivia Pizzo, at an electronic music festival. “It was May of 2008,” she told Hooping.org. “I saw a small group of hoopers at DEMF here in Detroit and…
An Interview with Neon Emu
Neon Emu, aka Lindsey Savage, is profiled here in an awesome video interview with Dan Hostler. They live in Austin, Texas, USA.
From the Mouths of Hooping Babes
[Hooping.org columnist Lara Eastburn gets schooled on hooping.] by Lara Eastburn I hooped the night before labor began with my first daughter. Now Navi is five-years-old (going on 6, as she says!). She is the…