Hoop class notes and links

Thank you so much for joining me for hoop class!
Here are my class notes. I hope they are helpful to you in your practice. 
I've also included some tutorial video links. 
Happy hooping!
​-Jennette
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waist hooping

- Pay attention to: Posture/ Pace/ Push Points/ Direction
  • Good posture- stand tall, head and eyes up
  • Pace- quicker than you think.
  • Give yourself a verbal cue- “front back front back”, “left right left right”
  • Strong, level push to start
  • Shift your weight from one foot to the other, body swaying in a straight line
    • Forward stance- front to back, one foot out front
    • Side stance- feet about shoulder width apart
  • BREATHE
  • Opposite Direction
    • It's hard, be patient with yourself

Recovery methods for when the hoop is falling from waist level to hip level
  • Go faster/ exaggerate the movement- shimmy it up
  • Squat down to bring your waist down to the hoop, then stand back up tall
  • Quick turn in your hoop’s spin direction
  • Grab hoop with hands, stepping turn to restart spin.
  • Even if you're not dropping your hoop much, spending some time drilling the recovery methods (especially in your opposite direction) will be very advantageous to your practice.

Combinations: Opposite Direction Switch-y
Waist hooping> Hands stop the hoop at sides of body> Restart hoop in opposite direction> Repeat
*see tutorial link below

Waist Hooping> Beam Me Up (high then low then high) > Add Some Flair (toss/ wiggle/ tilt/ hinge/ *come back to hands inside of hoop, arms extending above head)> Waist Hooping

*Beam Me Up: lifting the hoop up, in the horizontal plane, with a stepping turn. Lift hoop to arms extended above head and then down to the floor. Step slowly with your stepping turns to avoid dizziness.

Helpful tutorials:
  • Hula Hooping: How to Move and Dance With a Hula Hoop
    • Opposite Direction Switchy at 5:45min

Fancy Fails
  • Pose
  • Beam Me Up
  • Monkey Feet slide to instep and lift to hand
  • Kick On (to hand or body)
  • Step on hoop to roll it up - from inside hoop or hoop in front of you, or hoop by your side
  • Helpful tutorials:

Turns/ Walking
  • Step in the same direction as your hoop spin
  • Stepping Turn / 360 Turn / Compass Turn
  • Back stall with turn
  • Walking with hoop (in spin direction)
  • Practice opposite direction

Waist Hooping: More Awareness/ More Challenge
  • Playing with/ Controlling the speed of hoop
  • Distance between feet- the closer the feet, the more you work from the core
  • Balancing- stand on one foot, try with R and L foot
  • Opposite Direction
  • Hands and Arms- move them with intention
  • Eyes and Face- awareness of tightness​

ALL ON-BODY HOOPING:
  • Bigger hoops make it easier.
  • Stepping turns to slow it down.
  • Remember to utilize your recovery moves and fancy fails.

Forward weave

Hoop is gripped lightly in hand at side of body (palm up, thumb in back- fancy purse position) and follows a figure-8 path, moving from one side of the body to the other.
  • Practice in your non-dominant hand
  • Both hands together/ switching from hand to hand
  • Side weave- start in forward weave and turn your feet a quarter turn away from your hoop hand
  • Vertical Halo: Halo to weave/ weave to halo (wall plane) 
    • Open your hand into the L shape when the hoop is on the hand holding side and let the hoop spin forward around your hand while pulsing your hand
    • Double weave/ 3 beat weave
    • Backwards Weave
Helpful tutorials:
Hoop Tutorial: Basic Forward Weave
Beginner Hula Hoop Tutorials: The Forward Weave

Halo/ SPinning on The hand

Vertical Halo
  • Wall plane
  • In front of the body or to the side of the body
  • Handshake motion or bouncing basketball motion
  • Practice using both hands and both directions
  • Front plane hand off (like the halo version of the Opposite Direction Switchy move)
  • Doubles (one hoop in each hand!)

Horizontal Halo
  • Starting position- holding hoop in front of you, arm extending, stepping turn and raise your hand up and open to L shape as you stepping turn. 
  • In the floor/ceiling plane
  • Arm is raised above the head
  • High five motion
  • Prayer hand halo- as a hand switch
  • Practice using both hands and both directions
  • Halo to Passing/ Passing to Halo
  • Floats- arm extension with stepping turn (from passing or halo)

Helpful tutorials:
Beginner Hula Hoop Tutorial: 3 Hand Tricks To Try Now

PASSIng

Passing the hoop around the body with your hands
  • Palms down/ knuckles up for flat passing (thumbs together in front, pinkies together in back)
  • Palms up for helicopter (pinkies together in front, thumbs together in back)
  • Opposite Direction
  • Level Changes- go high or go low
  • Break/ Direction change- extended arm & against hip
  • Revolving Door Step Thru
  • Under Leg- kicking forward and kicking back/ leaning forward
  • Halo to Passing/ Passing to Halo

Wrap around (smear)

Wrap Around/ Smear
  • Starting position: hands on inside of hoop, hoop framing your torso behind your back with the bottom of the hoop touching body at waistband level
  • Hoop rotates around to the side wall plane, then front wall plane, other side, and returning to the back wall plane
  • Bottom of hoop stays touching waistband area as the hoop circles around the body
  • Both directions
  • With stepping turn

Helpful tutorials:
Smear Variations 

isolations

Isolations- an optical illusion where the hoop looks like it's staying in place while your hand circles around
  • Your hand traces around the inside of the hoop circle, keeping the hoop in the same place, like clock hands
  • Reach arms far, extend arms across body
  • Use a mirror or your shadow to practice.
  • One handed: back of hand rolls across top inside of hoop 10:00-2:00
  • Two handed: switch hands at 6 o'clock and 12 o'clock
  • Ghosting: one hand is controlling the hoop, the other hand is pretending “ghosting”

Combinations
Barrel Roll> Smear> Isolation
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Helpful tutorials:
Hula Hoop Isolations for Beginners (One handed isolation)
Two Handed Isolation
Barrel Roll

corkscrews

Corkscrews: Bringing the hoop from waist hooping to horizontal halo or from halo back down to the waist.
  • Being comfortable with these moves will help with the corkscrew: 
    • Waist hooping: both directions
    • Stepping Turns: both directions
    • Slowing the pace of spin
    • Horizontal Halos: both hands/ both directions
    • Hand dips into open space: waist hooping and halo
Corkscrews/ Lift Ups
  • Using your hand to lift the hoop from your waist to halo/ lasso.
  • You can use either hand:
    • You can use your non-hoop spin direction hand- grasping from behind the back. Prep by putting the back of your hand on your lower back and feel the hoop roll across your palm.
    • Or, grasp the hoop in front of you with your hoop spin direction hand, reaching to the opposite front hip.
 
  • Remember- whether your lifting up or bring down, your hand will follow a diagonal/ spiral/ corkscrew path and the longer you can make that diagonal path, the smoother the move will be.
  • Use a very light grasp/ open hand
  • TURN TURN TURN
  • Vortex- combining the lift up and bringing down.

Helpful tutorials:
Vortex Variations from Deanna Love (very helpful!)

On body hooping

Chest hooping
  • Strong pushes from the middle of your chest. Stepping turn.
  • Arms gently up and in front of chest
  • Turn Turn Turn! Doing a stepping turn in your hooping direction will make these moves much easier!
  • Transition from waist by increasing speed, stepping turn and strong front pushes

Shoulder hooping
  • The lead shoulder (which ever direction your hoop is spinning in) will push forward and nudge hoop around.
  • Turn Turn Turn!
  • And using a big hoop to practice these moves will make them easier also.
  • Transition from waist to shoulder with alternate arm shruggie movement.
  • Try it on the forward angle.

Leg Hooping
  • Posture!
  • Thighs/ area ABOVE knee
  • Pushing/ nudging/ pulsing
  • One legged- one leg doing all work
  • Two legged- both legs doing the work- either together or alternating front and back push

Hip Hooping
  • Transition from waist, let it fall to hips and shimmy back up.
  • Transition from waist with hip circle in hoop spin direction
  • Might be a more side to side motion and a little faster than waist hooping

ALL ON-BODY HOOPING:
  • Bigger hoops make it easier.
  • Stepping turns to slow it down.
  • Corkscrew lifts to change level.
  • Remember to utilize your recovery moves and fancy fails.

Transitions
  • Transition from waist  to chest by increasing speed, stepping turn and strong front pushes
  • Transition from waist to shoulder with alternate arm shruggie movement.
  • Transition from chest/ shoulder to waist by letting hooping slow
  • Transition from waist to hips or legs, let it fall to hips and shimmy back up.
  • Transition from waist to hips or legs, with hip circle in hoop spin direction

Helpful tutorials:
Leg Hooping & Fancy Fails
Chest & Shoulders- Hoop Smiles
Chest & Shoulders- Hoop- Deanne Love
Forward Angle & Barrel Roll

Off body hooping tricks

*Lightweight hoops (youth size) will make these moves easier.

Escalators
  • (all of these variations are covered in DL's links below)
  • Holding
  • Basic- Right hand pushes and catches up high/ Left Hand up then down
  • Monkey Arm- Left Hand catches
  • Monkey Arm Frame
  • Reverse Reverse (from back of neck)
  • Reverse (turning hoop towards head)- catch on Opp Side

Zirkles & Palm Spins
  • From a Forward Weave
  • In the Front Wall Plane
  • From a Backwards Weave
  • Use as a transition to reverse direction of weave
  • Backwards Zirkles & palm spins: pinkie leads instead of thumb

Helpful tutorials:
Basic Escalator
Reverse Escalators
Basic- Monkey Arm Catch and Frame Catch
Palm Spins & Zirkle

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