r/Hooping

12-14 years ago, I had a very heavy and large beginner hoop that I bought from a hippie shop on the boardwalk. I never really got into “flow” because my hoop limited me, but I could do a couple things like a vortex. I had a lot of fun trying at parties and festivals anyway.

Now I’m in my 30s, and about a month ago, my toddler saw a little mini kid’s hoop in the grocery store that she wanted. Then she wanted me to get one too, so I grabbed the full sized one. It’s a typical $5 Walmart hoop, lightweight with beads inside. It’s 34 inches in diameter, which sits at my bellybutton.

I had no idea how much fun I would have with this silly kid’s hoop. I’m in the yard with her everyday trying to learn tricks. I’ve learned how to do the escalator and reverse escalator and variations of that. Things I could never learn with my old hoop. Apparently this is my hobby for this summer!

But, I’m 4’11 and I feel it’s too big for some things. When I watch tutorials, their hoops are usually much smaller on them. I’d like to get a polypro hoop. So I’m looking for size and hoop maker recommendations. Thanks!

So I’m dumb as rocks, got two left feet and have a lot of trouble keeping up with Deanne love. I don’t know what flow is or how to achieve it, quite frankly, I’ve never had a “flowy” thought in my life!

I’m so sick of feeling stunted because I just can’t put in the amount of time I want to put in to practice because I always find excuses not to and 24 hours in one day is SO not enough for something I am so passionate about! I will do anything but actually pick up my hoop and experiment, I was hoping someone here on this subreddit could give me the ultimate cheat code to hack into my flow state even though I understand it’s a very personal and unique to everyone thing. And please PLEASE don’t tell me to practice! That’s so rude and presumptive, Super nice answers only!

So I'm mostly an on-body hooper. Very dancey. I want to incorporate all these amazing off body tricks..but damn a lot of them are hard to nail down and combine into smooth flowing combos.

I know it takes practice to get the hang of these tricks, but at what point does the practice become a flow? I'm not exactly sure what I'm asking or how to word it.

Do you just keep drilling specific tricks until they become second nature and intuitively move into other tricks that becomes your combo flow?

I guess I just feel really clunky right now while learning tricks and it's discouraging .