Hoop Information
What Hooping Means To Me
For me hooping is healing, hope, humor, health and happiness. When I first got into hooping in 2008, my mom was sick with terminal cancer (misdiagnosed for 1 1/2 years). I had to run, and then close, our family business Southwest giftshop, by myself.
There were some days that all I could do was sit inside my hoop cross legged in the floor. It was my safe space, even if just for a few moments, when I said, “For just right now, All the bad stuff has to stay out there (outside of my hoop).”
After a year of library DVDs and just hooping on my own, I started going to hoop workshops by a lot of big name hoopers who came through Colorado to the Boulder Circus Center.
I continued to grow and develop as a hooper, and people kept asking, “Where do you teach?” I started my teaching and hoop making biz Hip The Hoopla in 2011, a year after my mom died. I’ve been trying to help people get happy and healthy with hooping ever since.
For many years I’ve helped out with Colorado World Hoop Day event, and even stepped up to take over creating the official dance.
This is my 4th year creating the original song and choreography. Plus…getting the word out for more hooping in the world to help bring peace, foster friendships, get people up physically active, and get hoops into the hands of kids in need, worldwide.
My mission is to help others. And, even though this is my marriage anniversary month (8 years now!), World Hoop Day is only a month away (Saturday October 3rd)‼
For more info on learning how to hoop or to volunteer to help in any way you can for World Hoop Day, please contact Che’.
Also please keep up with Hoop News and Activities at:
http://www.HipTheHoopla.com http://www.Facebook.com/HipTheHoopla
World Hoop Day 2020 Official Dance Challenge
We’re doing a September Hoop Dance Challenge…learning the official Dance for World Hoop Day.!
Join us in the www.Facebook.com/whddance for “daily do it prompts.”
www.Facebook.com/HipTheHoopla
YouTube Video Playlist:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfepHc2viWU32ntuIH_7mjEjCls3BMbYY
Places to tune in:
www.Facebook.com/HipTheHoopla
www.YouTube.com/HipTheHoopla
www.Instagram.com/hipthehoopla
www.HipTheHoopla.com
World Hoop Day Dance Challenge Schedule:
DAY 1-6 Learn and Do, DAY 6 Review
Day 7 Q & A: Freestyle Dance Intro, First Verse choreography
DAY 8-11 Learn and Do with Review plus Q & A Chorus choreography
Day 12 Full Dance Choreography Live Training
Day 13 Learn 2nd Verse choreography with review
Day 14 Optional Special Surprise!! Learn International Choreography Collaboration End counts + review
BONUSES: *“Performer’s Preparation: Quick Guide” https://youtu.be/pO2j4n4p4Uo
**“Video/Camera Tips & Tricks” https://youtu.be/EenkXsL4ZMc
***Be sure to check out the World Hoop Day Choreography Video after the full training, for a quick review of the whole dance. https://youtu.be/7tvSi8woibI
Welcome to the World Hoop Day Celebration and 2020 Dance Challenge! We are learning a dance choreography that can be done in groups, duets, or solo. Bite sized pieces will be in doable daily chunks that can be done in 5-10 minutes. (More if you want to practice to nail it!) Follow along and learn new hula hoop moves, add dance style, or increase your own personal challenge level. Please add your own pizzazz, smile, sense of fun, and love of your hoop.
***NOTE***: This dance is for ALL levels, ages, genders, body and hoop sizes. Please have fun, Smile LOTS, warm up so you can stay safe in your body, hydrate, and help spread the hoop love by sharing and teaching others to welcome them to the hoop circle. ♥Thank you♥
#worldhoopdaydance #worldhoopday2020 #whd2020
♥ Daily Challenge Playlist: https://tinyurl.com/yxe4a2qo
♥ Download the original Rock Star Produced SONG at: https://soundcloud.com/user836548562/getintolifewithahulahoopmix2
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Is Hooping Right For Me?
I want to feel better. I want to move. I want to laugh. Is Hooping for me??
Big Hoop Vs. Small Hoop…Size Matters!
Does Size Matter. Why YES it is. Especially when picking a hula hoop!
Question:
So I got the arm hoop down…only right side so far. I had to stop. My hoop is too big and was hurting. So I think I need a smaller size.
I definitely don’t want to stop.
Answer:
Yep I definitely like to have what I loosely call On-body hoops (generally speaking a little bigger ad/or heavier), and Off-body hoops (usually a little smaller and/or lighter). That being said, you Can interchange the size/weight of the hoop, just know that the moves might move slower with the bigger hoop or faster with the smaller hoop. Also with a heavier hooping the moves on stronger body parts, like your may be easier to get and execute. If you are instead rotating the hoop on your hand, arm, foot, etc. you may want to use a smaller lighter hoop so you don’t have to strain as much to use it. It also helps prevent more bruising and injury.
~Che’ Rippinger is Hip The Hoopla‘s CHO (Chief Hooping Officer)/Owner/Founder and head humorist, with heart. She’s been hula hooping since 2008 and founded Hip The Hoopla in 2011 – while teaching, performing and making pro custom dance hula hoops. A dancer most of her life (30+years), Che’ has also been a humor writer/columnist, illustrator and cartoonist for The Denver Post and her Touché! Cartoons have been featured in PLAYGIRL Magazine.
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Catch the latest hoop news with Hip The Hoopla on Facebook. Check out the Hip The Hoopla YouTube channel for the Hoop Love Ya’ll Show, plus tutorials, performances. Also follow HTH on Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Yelp, and Instagram. To contact us for group classes, private coaching, premium service packages, VIP days, events, performances or custom professional dance hoops, please call 303-919-9280, visit www.HipTheHoopla.com or e-mail Che@HipTheHoopla.com. (Please do not add us to call/e-mail lists without permission.)
New Mountain Hoop Class In Person, And Online!
Want to Hula Hoop, dance, laugh, learn and meet some neighbors? I’m hosting a “naturally socially distancing” Hoop Dance Class up off of Clear Creek. 10 am MST on Thursdays. ALL LEVELS Welcome! Hoops provided, bring your own, or get a new beautiful custom crafted professional hoop. So far we’ve had a total Laugh-Fest this month testing this location out!
•Like the idea, but want to stay home? I am getting us together to participate online, too! Trying some new tech up here, so bear with me to get it going.
•Classes are $10 for now (I used to charge $15 for many years). If you really want to learn and cost, or something else is an issue, please let me know. We can chat opportunities to help each other out–mountain style.
•Wear comfy clothing. Bring water. Shoes are a good idea, especially on the gravel. You can be in the shade or the sun. If you’re bringing (or dragging for their own good) a hoop buddy, Please carpool or join UTV forces, and Please get directions in advance.
•Class is about an hour-ish (sometimes we’re just having so much fun, it bubbles over).
•RSVP’s are greatly appreciated. You can pay in variety of ways-cash, credit/debit card, online, in person, Square, Venmo, Paypal, Vagaro, blah, blah, blah.
•303.919.9280 cell call or text. (Our CenturyLink 208 # is still out). Facebook Messenger works well. Email is ok but please message me to go search for your e-mail, please.
PLEASE NOTE : This is a positive, happy, healthy, community atmosphere/class. Neighbors are all encouraged to play and be nice–not hard to do with a hula hoop!!!
P.S. if you want to see my style of teaching…check out my Monday night Hoop Love Ya’ll Show recordings on YouTube (health, humor and hula hooping) http://www.YouTube.com/HipTheHoopla
I’m Hip The Hoopla (hipthehoopla) on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Yelp, etc).
www.HipTheHoopla.com
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~Che’ Rippinger is Hip The Hoopla‘s CHO (Chief Hooping Officer)/Owner/Founder and head humorist, with heart. She’s been hula hooping since 2008 and founded Hip The Hoopla in 2011 – while teaching, performing and making pro custom dance hula hoops. A dancer most of her life (30+years), Che’ has also been a humor writer/columnist, illustrator and cartoonist for The Denver Post and her Touché! Cartoons have been featured in PLAYGIRL Magazine.
Want more awesomeness? Sign up for our Whirled News e-mail and get your very own 10 motivational ways to make changes workbook.
Please follow Hip The Hoopla on Facebook. We’re even on YouTube (with our own channel), Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Yelp,and Instagram. To contact us for group classes, private coaching, premium service packages, VIP days, events, performances or custom professional dance hoops, please call 303-919-9280, visit www.HipTheHoopla.com or e-mail Che@HipTheHoopla.com. (Please do not add us to call/e-mail lists without permission.)
Egyptian Shoulder Dip Laughter Yoga Exercise
Here’s a belly dance inspired (remember the Bangles song, “Walk Like An Egyptian?!”) Laughter Yoga exercise that a fun quick way to get in some laughter, deep breathing and a little home arm exercise–or anywhere you want to take a little “happy break!” Live Well. Laugh More.
#LaughterYogaExercise #waystolaugh #funwaystoexerciseathome
*Sharing Health, Humor and hula hooping information and tutorials in a fun, entertaining, and personable way.
♥ For more positive ways to move and get motivated, check out the Hoop Love Ya’ll Show with Che’ Rippinger of Hip The Hoopla, bringing you happy Health, Humor and hula Hooping hints and hacks that you can try…and Share, today!
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WATCH NEXT:
• Laughter Yoga Exercises: https://tinyurl.com/rph32tn
• Wake Up And Sun Shine stretch sessions: https://tinyurl.com/um6efgn
• Watch the #stepupandshine series playlist on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/uw69u6d
• Hoop Love Ya’ll Show FULL Playlist on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/ux727q6
• Hoop Tutorials you might enjoy learning from: https://tinyurl.com/t3xxkax
• Hoop Performances: https://tinyurl.com/tto74hg
• Hoop Jam Sessions: https://tinyurl.com/vbdkmvu
• The Matador Hoop Tutorial: https://youtu.be/7Fp4hKUoWjg
Have someone who needs a smile, hug or some positive energy? Sharing is caring 💞. Share this video: https://youtu.be/EYAZ3i2iqdM
♥ Thank you for watching ♥
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~Che’ Rippinger is Hip The Hoopla‘s CHO (Chief Hooping Officer)/Owner/Founder and head humorist, with heart. She’s been hula hooping since 2008 and founded Hip The Hoopla in 2011 – while teaching, performing and making pro custom dance hula hoops. A dancer most of her life (30+years), Che’ has also been a humor writer/columnist, illustrator and cartoonist for The Denver Post and her Touché! Cartoons have been featured in PLAYGIRL Magazine.
Want more awesomeness? Sign up for our Whirled News e-mail and get your very own 10 motivational ways to make changes workbook.
Please follow Hip The Hoopla on Facebook. We’re even on YouTube (with our own channel), Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Yelp,and Instagram. To contact us for group classes, private coaching, premium service packages, VIP days, events, performances or custom professional dance hoops, please call 303-919-9280, visit www.HipTheHoopla.com or e-mail Che@HipTheHoopla.com. (Please do not add us to call/e-mail lists without permission.)
Clap And Press Laughter Yoga Exercise
Want a way to boost your energy, happiness and stress-reducing endorphins, in just 2 minutes? Try this short Laughter Yoga Exercise right now to inject a smile in your day. It’s one of many fun ways to get moving and ways to exercise at home, office or even on the go!
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~Che’ Rippinger is Hip The Hoopla‘s CHO (Chief Hooping Officer)/Owner/Founder and head humorist, with heart. She’s been hula hooping since 2008 and founded Hip The Hoopla in 2011 – while teaching, performing and making pro custom dance hula hoops. A dancer most of her life (30+years), Che’ has also been a humor writer/columnist, illustrator and cartoonist for The Denver Post and her Touché! Cartoons have been featured in PLAYGIRL Magazine.
Want more awesomeness? Sign up for our Whirled News e-mail and get your very own 10 motivational ways to make changes workbook.
Please follow Hip The Hoopla on Facebook. We’re even on YouTube (with our own channel), Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Yelp,and Instagram. To contact us for group classes, private coaching, premium service packages, VIP days, events, performances or custom professional dance hoops, please call 303-919-9280, visit www.HipTheHoopla.com or e-mail Che@HipTheHoopla.com. (Please do not add us to call/e-mail lists without permission.)
4 Elements to Boost Your Hoop Dance Creativity
How can you inspire creativity to your hula hoop dance flow?
By borrowing an idea from Mother Nature, you can incorporate the four elements of Earth, Air, Wind, and Fire to boost your hoop dance creativity. Inject some #hoopspiration into your hoop dance practice. So get out of your boredom rut. Surpass your static plateau. What movement essences of these elements can you inject into your happy hooping to get you overflowing with ideas to try?
EARTH
Earth has the feeling of being grounded. It’s sturdy, solid, and foundational.
For Elemental EARTH Hooping Try:
• Actually connecting your hoop to the ground.
• Or connecting various parts of your body on the ground.
• Perhaps try foot hooping while lying down.
AIR
Air is the element of lightness and breezy movement. Unless you’re taking on twisting tornado energy!
For Elemental AIR Hooping Try:
• Hoop tosses.
• Moving your hoop through space and tracing it’s movement with your other hand.
WATER
Water flows, ripples and waves. Water can have gentle swish and grace.
For Elemental WATER Hooping Try:
•”Walk The Dog” hoop trick and variations.
• Linear Isolations.
• Cat-Eyes.
• Escalators.
FIRE
Fire heats, seduces, and burns.
For Elemental FIRE Hooping Try:
• Experiment with Anti-Spin Flowers.
• Wack yourself with some Wedgies.
These are just some of the interpretations of these elements.
How you interpret these elements can be completely unique to your experience and perspective. Try meditating, journaling, or mind-mapping on the ideas of what each element means to you.
And if you are an aficionado of Feng Shui, you can change things up using their ancient 5 elements of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. These elements can flow in a constructive or destructive cycle, depending on how you use it. The Feng Shui elements also have corresponding colors,”cures” or remedies, areas of the body, and emotions associated with them. So you see, you can really go down the rabbit hole of creativity, pretty fast!
Bring a buddy, so you can find your way back. ♥
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~Che’ Rippinger is Hip The Hoopla‘s CHO (Chief Hooping Officer)/Owner/Founder and head humorist, with heart. She’s been hula hooping since 2008 and founded Hip The Hoopla in 2011 – while teaching, performing and making pro custom dance hula hoops. A dancer most of her life (30+years), Che’ has also been a humor writer/columnist, illustrator and cartoonist for The Denver Post and her Touché! Cartoons have been featured in PLAYGIRL Magazine.
Want more awesomeness? Sign up for our Whirled News e-mail and get your very own 10 motivational ways to make changes workbook.
Please follow Hip The Hoopla on Facebook. We’re even on YouTube (with our own channel), Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Yelp,and Instagram. To contact us for group classes, private coaching, premium service packages, VIP days, events, performances or custom professional dance hoops, please call 303-919-9280, visit www.HipTheHoopla.com or e-mail Che@HipTheHoopla.com. (Please do not add us to call/e-mail lists without permission.)
Learn How To Hoop Online
Looking for a great happy way to get fit and have fun? How about hula hooping?! Did you know that you can learn how to hula hoop ONLINE? From anywhere in the world, you can learn the healthy habits of hula hooping.
Save Time
No need to travel
Avoid traffic
Save Money fuel and fancy overhead
Learn at Your Own Pace, In Your Own Space
No need to be uncomfortable, self conscious or dress up
So…why wait? Book Now! So many levels available to learn with Hip The Hoopla!
Hoop BOTH Ways!
QUESTION: Should you just hoop in one direction?
ANSWER: Hoop BOTH Ways!
Here’s why you should expand your hoop dance to utilize Both Directions (hooping to the right AND hooping to the left).
Hoop Both Ways…It Has It’s Benefits!
- Work your Body.
If you lifted weights, you probably wouldn’t just do right arm bicep curls. You’d work both sides equally, for strength and balance. When you practice utilizing both sides, you train your body to develop stronger muscle memory. - Work your Brain.
The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body, and vice versa. Also, when you challenge your brain with new learning, you create new neural pathways. - Variety and Expansion.
If you are able to get into a variety of moves from both directions, you will exceptionally expand what’s possible in your hooping practice. - Extra Ah-Ha Moments!
You may get something on your non-dominant side that you were previously struggling with when you were hooping in your comfort zone, aka “favorite side.”
Hooping in your “favorite” or “dominant” side is often referred to as your “current.” I like to hoop in both currents. I also highly encourage my students to regularly hoop in both directions. It increases what’s easily possible and accessible. If you can only get into a move or transition from one direction, then you limit your flow dance options to only what feels comfortable and accessible from your favorite direction. By working both directions while hooping, your creativity can become exponential!
How to get that “other side” when it doesn’t feel as natural?
Often we refer to our opposite current as our “bad side.” Those words actually makes me cringe, because that side did nothing wrong to deserve that ill-fated moniker, other than it doesn’t get much practice time. Also when you keep speaking those words, you can come to believe it as truth. And it’s just not fair to put something down about yourself.
So I call my so-called non-dominant side, “My Side That Needs a Little Extra Love.” So give that side more rotations, so that it does feel more comfortable. Muscle memory takes time and repetition. Practice is the key. It may not feel great while you’re first trying it, but as you practice, it will start to feel more natural, and eventually even second nature!
Warm, Cozy, and Stuck
Lastly, know that your current/dominant side can become a warm and cozy comfort zone. Sometimes of not trying new things. It can also become a rut where you get stuck. Often we develop an unconscious habit of how to do something. If you are stuck getting a new move, switch up the direction, or side, that you are trying it on. When you engage in this “beginner mind” methodology, you are way more open to discovering and trying a new technique, than the habitual patterned brain is.
Enjoy hooping in both directions. May your fun incorporating both sides, build your hoop dance tool box of possibilities.
Want to see how to “Go Both Ways” in your hooping? Check out this YouTube video now: https://youtu.be/c2NTraAbeP8
♥ This article is especially dedicated to Kat and the FabOver40hoopcommunity ♥
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~Che’ Rippinger is Hip The Hoopla‘s CHO (Chief Hooping Officer)/Owner/Founder and head humorist, with heart. She’s been hula hooping since 2008 and founded Hip The Hoopla in 2011 – while teaching, performing and making pro custom dance hula hoops. A dancer most of her life (30+years), Che’ has also been a humor writer/columnist, illustrator and cartoonist for The Denver Post and her Touché! Cartoons have been featured in PLAYGIRL Magazine.
Want more awesomeness? Sign up for our Whirled News e-mail and get your very own 10 motivational ways to make changes workbook.
Please follow Hip The Hoopla on Facebook. We’re even on YouTube (with our own channel), Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Yelp,and Instagram. To contact us for group classes, private coaching, premium service packages, VIP days, events, performances or custom professional dance hoops, please call 303-919-9280, visit www.HipTheHoopla.com or e-mail Che@HipTheHoopla.com. (Please do not add us to call/e-mail lists without permission.)