We’ve compiled a video tutorial to demonstrate the five routines we taught in our latest hooping flow classes. You can find a little more written detail about the tricks by visiting the original posts from each week of our classes using these links: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4 and Week 5. We hope this helps to remind everybody of the moves we covered! Comment if you have any questions.
This June, Kayla will be teaching “Kids Intro to Hula Hoop Dancing” through St. Cloud’s Community Ed program. Hula hooping is a fun physical activity you and your children can enjoy together. Strive for improvement, learn new tricks and practice together for hours out in the beautiful summer weather. Hula hoops can go with you on all of your summer trips and your wow your friends with the skills you’ve learned. This playful, stress relieving exercise will help you become centered, calm and focused all while providing an incredible full body workout.
Classes will consist of lessons, demonstrations, games and free-time. Children be split into two separate groups, ages 5-8 and ages 9-12. Both classes will take place every Monday beginning June 11th through July 9th. (There will be no class on July 2nd.)
To sign up online or for more detailed information visit our Hoop Dance Classes page, it’s going to be loads of fun!
Here’s a peak at some of the beautiful hoopers we got to perform with last week, and an overhead view of the circus acts happening below. We weren’t able to get video of the actual hooping act because we were busy hooping, but we had fun playing with our LED hoops up on the third balcony overlooking the event during some downtime.
Thanks again to Funtime Funktions for putting together such a fun circus party!
Soundtrack – “Circus” by C-Mon & Kypsi
Last week we got the privilege of joining 18 other hoopers and 60 other performers for an amazing circus themed party orchestrated by Funtime Funktions. A Minnesota company was celebrating 50 years of business and they dreamt up the idea of having a burlesque circus themed celebration. Everything about the event was outstanding. Performances took place one after another in-between dinner courses. It began with 20 hula hoopers putting on an LED hooping performance in the red carpeted isles between guests, and ended with walking dessert tables and the whole mix of costumed performers singing happy birthday as we played amongst a shower of shining streamers. We are so happy and thankful we got to be a part of such a fun event. It was also a great opportunity to meet other fabulous hoopers from around the Twin Cities.
We pulled our vintage circus costumes together mostly from items we found in our closets. To hide my 4-1/2 month baby bump I designed and sewed my own loose-fitting top, which was kind of a mess on the inside, but success on the outside.
Some of the other performances that took place that night included: strolling hecklers, magicians, clowns, chinese dancers, acrobats, unicyclers, stilt walkers and fire dancers. Check back soon for video footage of the evening.
Our Spring quarter Community Ed hoop dance classes have come to an end. We are sad that they are over, but look forward to the warm summer weather and joining up with hoopers at the park for some real free flowing jam out sessions. Thanks to all the girls who participated and made our classes a great experience. We have really enjoyed our time together and made some great new friends!
I (Colleen) am happy to announce I am almost 5 months pregnant, so I will most likely refrain from any more hooping commitments in the next few months to come, but that sure doesn’t mean I won’t be hooping for fun! Kayla will be teaching some kids hoop dance classes through St. Cloud’s Community Ed program this June and has lined up a few private hooping lessons as well. More info on the Kid’s Hooping Classes here!
Last week in our hoop dance “Flow Class” we taught this series of moves:
Helicopter
Revolving Door
Large Vertical Pass with Leg Kicks
Vertical Jump Through
This routine wraps up our spring Flow Class. During our final class tonight we will go over all of the tricks we’ve practiced and incorporate them into a more randomized free flowing hooping session. Kayla and I will be recording a wrap-up video as a visual reminder for all of the routines we’ve put together for this class. Keep your eyes out for that in the next week or two.
We had a lot of fun teaching our Flow Class and want to thank everybody who participated. Stay tuned to our website for news on what’s coming up next. We plan to host a few hoop jams in the park this summer so all the hoopers in the St. Cloud area can get together and get wild in a fun relaxed environment. If anybody is interested in helping to get involved with this please contact colleen@twistinvixens.com.
In our fourth Hoop Dance “Flow Class” session we learned a sequence of moves and ended with a transition into the same sequence using the opposite side of the body allowing us to become comfortable with the moves in both directions.
Right Side Warrior (Pass to left hand “thumb-to-thumb” at hip level)
Left Side Reverse Warrior (Pass to right hand “pinky-to-pinky” at eye level)
Right Side Warrior
Vertical Hooping
Toss
Vertical Hooping
You should end this sequence hooping vertically in front of your body clockwise. To make the transition into this sequence on the other side of your body, you want to switch the hoop so it is in your left hand going clockwise vertically in front of you. Once the hoop is in on your left hand turn your body 180˚ to the right and begin doing a Left Side Warrior. Then follow the sequence in the opposite direction.
Left Side Warrior (Pass to right hand “thumb-to-thumb” at hip level)
Right Side Reverse Warrior (Pass to left hand “pinky-to-pinky” at eye level)
Left Side Warrior
Vertical Hooping
Toss
Vertical Hooping
Pass the hoop so your vertical hooping in your right hand counter-clockwise vertically in front of your body. Turn your body 180˚ to the left and begin your Right Side Warrior. Then keep repeating these two sequences over and over until you’re a pro! We hope these sometimes tricky transitions will help build your skill going from a clockwise direction to a counter-clockwise direction with ease and grace.
