today i grabbed my hoop and headed to the backyard for a much needed session. popped in the amazing cd sara made for me, and shook it like a mad woman.....
i am trying my hardest right now to teach my body to hoop the other way.....i have no desire for the 3 pack abs. so for a good bit of tonight's practice i hooped to the right. it is very much like starting all over again, but the concepts are a little easier to get this go round.
but what made todays hooping spectacular was that at some point around song 6 my skirt fell off.....hehehehe....so there i was in my back yard in my tank top and undies! normally i would be a little self conscious about this, but we have a privacy fence, and my undies look very much like boy shorts, soooooo my clothes stayed off. this was when practice got good! i could pull of maneuvers that i have never been able to land with pants or a skirt on. my leg hooping got about 150% better! i could even do a kick start for the first time without feeling like i was trying to beat myself to death by way of my ankles. i kicked legs out of the hoop, and got them back in again with ease, did switches, and reverses. it was great!!!! once i did put my skirt back on my muscles already had the concepts down, and i could rock it with my skirt on.....i just had to let my skin hold the hoop. it added the grip i needed to let my body work out the movements. i highly recommend taking another layer off during your next hoop session, or rock some short shorts.
who knows maybe one day i will suck up my pride and rock some of those furry leg warmers that some hoopers wear....i for the life of me cant figure out what purpose they serve, but who knows maybe they help with all sorts of stuff.....
as soon as i get a chance i want to post a picture of my dirty dirty feet, the fruit of a good hoop session in the yard.
so if you have, what changes did you make to your wardrobe that helped you move to the next level of your hoop practice?
Ooooh I just love it when you post. Yay yay yay! I literally scroll down through a thousand blogs in my reader just to see if you've posted. :)
ReplyDeleteA clothes related note: I always make sure I have a tank top on, especially for shoulder hooping. I'm not a shorts girl, but I did buy some short shorts for that reason! Haven't worn them yet. Will have to try soon. In private ;-)
I've been working on the move you sent me in the video. I can do it in slow mo. Now on to full speed ;-) xxoo
hahahaha! i love you mama!
ReplyDeletethat move is insane isnt it!?! i can get it slow mo. coming in on the left side, and a little faster coming in on the right, but it is still kicking my butt....it feels like my body doesnt want to bend backwards and trust the hoop to land where it should. i keep getting it in the face! ouch!!!! i wish we could play together in my back yard!!!<3<3
What a hoot! Practically nekkid hooping.. who'd have thunk it.. as for my wardrobe.. well.. uhhh... it's just not that exciting.. LOL.. but I am hooping with my eyes closed to see if I can progress past the darn waist hooping.. sooo enjoy your blog
ReplyDeleteHoop on,
Annie