Viewed in Wonderland: Palace of Incandescent

Saw this on Hoop City and had to share!

Hooping in Wonderland: I can do it! lol.

I actually brought this up from my waist! :P

Hooping in Wonderland: Hoop City!

Shortly after I got my hoop I joined an online community for hoopers, Hoop City. It was started by Sandra "Safire" Sommerville, an amazing hoop dancer and teacher. I watch her tutorials on You Tube. The Hoop City site is filled with inspiring pictures and video. There are forums and everyone seems really encouraging and helpful. I'm glad to be apart of it. One of the extra cool things is that each member has a profile and you can add a playlist. Lately I've been checking out people's playlist to figure out what kind of music will get me hooping. :P

All in all I'm having a blast and a plus, I'm the current featured member. lol. It's probably random.

Oh and now Michele and Nella are going to have hoops. Just waiting for the order to come in!!!

Hooping in Wonderland: Got my hoop!!!

I received my hoop today! I ordered it from Rainbowfrogs77 on May 30th. Its a plain collapsible hoop. I still need to go out and get the tapes to decorate it, but I still haven't chosen a color scheme and pattern.

The hoop came like 2 hoops in a figure 8. Getting it into 1 hoop was a little confusing but I'm sure after some practice I'll be able to get it done faster. :P So I spent the last 3 hours watching hoop how-to's on You Tube with Nella. I can hoop decently and even learned to do the lasso trick.

Nel had so much fun she ordered one tonight. lol. It's a great work out, too. So if you're looking for a fun way to work out you should really consider hoop dance. The hoops aren't super expensive either. Mine was only $17 with shipping. The seller also has taped hoops if you don't want to have to tape it yourself.

Since I'm definitely not ready to post vids of me hooping watch this video of Safire. She's awesome!!!

Excited in Wonderland: Hoop Dance

I love watching hoop dancers on You Tube and have been trying to find the right tubing to make my own hoop for a while.  The people at Home Depot had absolutely no clue what I was talking about.  I gave them the name of the tubing and size and they were confused.  Anyways until I can locate some of that tubing here I realized I'm going to have to buy a ready made hoop online.  There are so many beautiful hoops for purchase online and it's so hard to decide which one to get.  Then I found it.  Yesterday I ordered a naked adult collapsible hoop from RainbowFrogs77 on Etsy.  She'll make one to your specifications.  I chose a 41" with 3/4" tubing.  The hoop will come naked, meaning untaped.  That means I'll be able to decorate it myself!  I'm excited!!!  And it was only $17 with shipping!!  I can't wait for it to come in.  In the mean time I'll be gathering tape and ribbon and watching more hoop dance clips on you tube.

Check out Hooping.org to learn more!