Stunning.
This seems so dreamy - escaping to the end of the world and hooping your heart out.
Showing posts with label Hooping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hooping. Show all posts
Friday, September 16, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Everyone is the Show at BM
I am contemplating dying my hair again so this picture makes me very, very happy.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Circle and Splits
Eek! I can't help it - it just looks so painful! But I am sure it feels like a lovely stretch for the hoop yogi seen above. Oh my, my
Monday, September 12, 2011
Five Funny Hoop Headlines from the 1950's
It seems in the hoop's mid-century hey-day there was quite the controversy about our favorite plastic round. Flustering the Royalty and hospitalizing housewives, the hula-hoop made the page quite a few times - with chuckle producing results. Click on the headlines below for the full article.
Spokane Daily Chronicle Sep 24th 1958
Sarasota Journal Oct 30th 1958
Toledo Blade March 30th 1959
The Sun March 21st 1959
Park City Daily News Oct 24th 1958
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Fighting Osteoporosis with the Hoop!
"You'll break your hip if you don't start taking meds."
That's what 57-year old Pam Theobold heard three years ago when her doctor diagnosed her with osteoporosis. Rather than start the medication Pam decided to try exercise, but soon got bored with weight lifting and mindless walking on the treadmill. She decided to give the hoop a try after seeing a woman on TV hooping.
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| Friendlier looking, more colorful, and cheaper solution than medication. Picture via flickr |
After one year of consistent hooping she revisited her doctor. Imagine her surprise when it was reported that she had the bones of a "35-year old" and she showed no further bone loss! Hooping had significantly helped slow the signs of her osteoporosis!
Uhm. Wow!
Pam, now better known as HoopDeeDo has been a hoop instructor for over two years now and has a great website with endless resources for tutorials and videos. Here is some great twin practice:
Definitely check out HoopDeeDo for tutorials as she commits to doing a new one each week and already has a massive catalog of beginner and advanced moves.
Way to go Pam! Quite the inspiration. Quite.
Check out the Hoop Dee Do website
Pam's YouTube page
More about Hooping and Osteoporosis on Hooping.org
Hep Cat, Hoop Cat(s)
Cat sees hoop. Cat immediately plops down in the direct center of hoop. Adorableness ensues.
I have seen shots like these for years in my quest for good hoop pictures and thought I would finally share! Take it easy, hoop cats. (I know you will.)
...your guess is as good as mine about that animated one...
all photos via flickr.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Bee Varga Makes Some Steam
I can hoop in water or with fire! Whatevah - I do it all!
Very Impressive Bee.
photo by: Mark Hull
You can find out more about Bee,
including her total hoop-body transformation, classes,
and lots more on her site!
Monday, August 29, 2011
HOOPER HEROES Come Alive!
Sufjan Stevens. As if I didn't already love you enough.
Sufjan created a comic book called "Hooper Heroes" about "three extra-terrestrial superhero sisters and their use of hula-hoops to combat the "the Messiah of Civic Projects," Captain Moses. The comic book is written by Stevens and gorgeously drawn, colored, and inked by longtime friend and collaborator Stephen Halker." I posted about it months and months ago and am stoked that, thanks to hiptronic hoops I just saw all of this sweet new Hooper Heros merch on the Asthmatic Kitty Records site.
Sufjan Stevens is proud to present The BQE, a cinematic suite inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Hula-Hoop. Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The BQE was originally performed in the Howard Gilman Opera House in celebration of the 25th anniversary Next Wave Festival in October of 2007.
The BQE is an experiment in multi-media. Sufjan wanted to present it in as many forms and methods as we could muster, which ended up being quite a lot. We made this page to keep track of it all. To read more about the release of The BQE click here
Pretty. Sweet.
You can also get hooper hero shirts and posters. Which, judging by this one - I don't think I even need to know what's going on to want one...
Hoopers here to SAVE THE DAAAAY! That is all.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
B.Bubble Spins with a Leopard Hoop
Gorgeous shot by B. Bubble via Flickr.
Hmm are those port-o-potties (what a terrible word) in the background?
Who knew that they could be so colorful and interesting looking...
Monday, August 22, 2011
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