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November Hip The Hoopla
NOVEMBER 2013 Hip The Hoopla Class Schedule:
11/2, 5, 9, 12, 16, 19, 23, 26, 30
♥ More Hip The Hoopla info at www.HipTheHoopla.com ♥ and www.facebook.com/HipTheHoopla (please “like” 🙂
♥ **NOVEMBER Holiday Class Pass-1 Month UNLIMITED $60!!! (less than $7 a class! Save $75!)
♥ Mini Personal Coaching Special: *10 Minute 1 on 1 Coaching Session~only $15 (phone or in person)
♥ Holiday Class Packs:
$60/5 class card (=$12/class, Save $15!) (good for 3 months from purchase)
$100/10 class card (=$10/class!, Save $50!!) (good for 6 months from purchase)
♥ Private Lessons/Sessions Available — De-stress your holidays!
Bring your hoop skills to the next level-Fast-with Hip The Hoopla Personalized Attention!
+CELEBRATE!! Custom Hoops, Classes, Private lessons, Coaching, Performing, Accessories, Gift Certificates, etc.
♥ RSVP your classes online at www.HipTheHoopla.com
Contact us for your own hand-crafted custom hoop, too! ♥
+Hip The Hoopla GIFT CERTIFICATES Available for classes, class packs, custom made hoops, private lessons, Hip The Hoopla Hoop-O-Grams, and more!
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~~~Hip the Hoopla Class LOCATION: *Red Elephant Workshop*
244 Sante Fe Drive, Denver CO 80223 (Between 2nd & 3rd on Sante Fe Drive– free on-street parking 🙂
Please allow a few extra minutes to park, sign in, and prepare to hoop
Cost: $15 Per class
OR…Save BIG with a Class Pack….
$60/5 class card (=$12/class, Save $15!) (good for 3 months from purchase)
$100/10 class card (=$10/class!, Save $50!!) (good for 6 months from purchase)
*Private Lessons/Sessions Available*
Please contact for other special offers & group discounts.
Class prep-Bring/Do/Wear: ~Water ~yoga mat ~stretchy snug clothing-the hoop loves sticking to skin & stays up better! A notebook & pen are really handy to remember key moves, hints & tricks. Bring your own hoop, purchase one at class, or borrow one provided at class. FYI: you can order YOUR OWN cool custom color/personally sized hoops for your hooping style and needs–Even collapsible hoops for easy carry & traveling!
Please RSVP your class spot at www.HipTheHoopla.com.
Please Note: A 24-hour courtesy cancellation required for the limited space class spot. You will be charged if within 24 hours of class.
RSVP/Questions/Info/Contact: Che@HipTheHoopla.com 303.980.6295
Hip The Hoopla is available for PERFORMING–special events, private/semi-private personally focused lessons & motivational meetings (way easier than walking on hot coals)… Plus bridal and bachelorette parties! And try out: Hip The Hoopla Hoop-O-Grams–better than a singing telegram–in person or virtual, and way more fun!
More info: www.HipTheHoopla.com
Please “Like,” visit often & recommend Hip The Hoopla on Facebook for schedule, updates, news and cool videos. http://www.facebook.com/HipTheHoopla
Also find us on Yelp! http://www.yelp.com/biz/hip-the-hoopla-denver
…and LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/company/hip-the-hoopla
…and YouTube http://www.youtube.com/HipTheHoopla
…and another YouTube channel with Hip The Hoopla http://www.youtube.com/ToucheToon
…and Pinterest http://pinterest.com/hipthehoopla/
…and Twitter http://twitter.com/hipthehoopla
Recommendations & testimonials are very appreciated. ~Thank You 🙂
We appreciate your interaction and connectivity!
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2013 has been such a great year to Get Your Hoop On!!!
♥http://hipthehoopla.com/classes/♥
***♥ PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE! ♥***
Recent performances at:
Live LiveWell Colorado Fitness Performance Event
Mercury Cafe Denver
With Blue Soul at Boulder Beer Company
Boulder IPA Festival with blues band Blue Soul and The Goonies
One Gathering with rock band Trickshot
Bellies on Fire! Show at Casseleman’s
Boulder Creek Festival after the Boulder Boulder
Lanie’s Clock Tower Cabaret’s “Mythic Summer Circus” with Bella Diva Dance.
♥ 2013 Personal Hooping Inspiration Challenge ♥
How is hooping inspiring you to be better?? It could be laughter,weight, happiness, health improvement…what ever your personal WIN is. Tell us in one quick paragraph…send it in now for your chance to be featured and INSPIRE OTHERS as our “Motivational Mover of the Month”. One winner monthly will a special Hip The Hoopla gift!
Hoopspiration: Grace, Humor & Innovative Recoveries
Hoopspiration
by Ché Rippinger
In-Joy! <3
How can you have more Graceful, Humorous & Innovative Recoveries?
(Hooping & Life!!!)
Join us in Denver at Red Elephant Workshop in Denver and find out 😉
Hip The Hoopla Tuesday 10/29 6:30pm
Please click on www.HipTheHoopla.com to RSVP or for more info
(RSVP’s highly recommended & drop-ins welcome, if space available)
Che@HipTheHoopla.com 303-980-6295
Travel Purse Sized Hula Hoop
Compact Fitness Equipment+Big Sized Happiness=Hoop!
What? You don’t have 5 ‘ of travel space for a fitness apparatus? Then you might want to try something that condenses into something more easily portable.
This is my regular sized “hula” hoop…it is one of my new “”Convertible / Collapsible” hoops. It can be one full size hoop, two mini twin hoops, or just compacted for ease in travel. This one pictured is a 32″ polypro with slide connectors that converts into two 16″ mini twin hoops. It’s a little small for most hoopers.
I make a 38″ HDPE (sturdier material) hoop that comes apart to form 20″ twins that seems to be a great choice for many hoopers!
Custom orders are available!
Che’ Rippinger, Hip The Hoopla, Che@HipTheHoopla.com
www.Facebook.com/HipTheHoopla
Hoop Info: www.HipTheHoopla.com/hoops
303-980-6295 for info
August Hip The Hoopla Schedule/Info/Deals
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♥ More Hip The Hoopla info at www.HipTheHoopla.com ♥ and www.facebook.com/HipTheHoopla (please “like” 🙂
AUGUST 2013 Hip The Hoopla Classes: 8/3, 6, 10, 13, 17, 20*, 24, 27, 31**Classes Tues. 6:30pm & Sat. 10am.** ♥”BRING A New FRIEND and they can try class for $10″ (RSVP encouraged!)♥ ♥ **HOOP LOVE UNLIMITED SUMMER SALE!** 30 days for YOU for only $60-UNLIMITED ($135 value-save $75! Good for 30 days from purchase date) ♥$60 for a 2 HOUR Private Hoop Session! (Please add $10 for Studio rental or travel fees–Save $20+) +CELEBRATE SUMMER!! Custom Hoops, Classes, Private lessons, Coaching, Performing, Merch, Gift Certificates, etc. +Personal coaching sessions available (phone or in person!) ♥ 2013 Personal Hooping Inspiration Challenge ♥ Drop in prices are $15 — Save big with your class packs, now!! +Class Pack Cards: great $Savings 5 Pack ($50) & 10 Pack ($90) classes, too! Hip Shakin’ Deal: 30 day-unlimited classes $75 (Save $45-$60!) +PRIVATE Hoop Sessions: Bring your hoop skills to the next level–Fast! Hip The Hoopla Private Hoop Tutoring $40/hour or $60 for 2 hour block ($20 off/regularly $80)–(Please add $5/hour for in-studio rental fee (regularly $10). +Hip The Hoopla GIFT CERTIFICATES Available for classes, class packs, custom made hoops, private lessons, Hip The Hoopla Hoop-O-Grams, and more! ######################### ~~~Hip the Hoopla Class LOCATION: *Red Elephant Workshop* Please allow a few extra minutes to park, sign in, and prepare to hoop Cost: $15 Per class *SUPER SUMMER SALE–See ABOVE! Please contact for other special offers & group discounts. Class prep-Bring/Do/Wear: ~Water ~yoga mat ~stretchy snug clothing-the hoop loves sticking to skin & stays up better! A notebook & pen are really handy to remember key moves, hints & tricks. Bring your own hoop, purchase one at class, or borrow one provided at class. FYI: you can order YOUR OWN cool custom color/personally sized hoops for your hooping style and needs–Even collapsible hoops for easy carry & traveling! Please RSVP your class spot. 24-hour courtesy cancellation required. $5 cancellation fee…goes to charity 🙂 It’s on the good karma honor system. RSVP/Questions/Info/Contact: Che@HipTheHoopla.com 303.980.6295 Hip The Hoopla is available for PERFORMING–special events, private/semi-private personally focused lessons & motivational meetings (way easier than walking on hot coals)… Plus bridal and bachelorette parties! And try out: Hip The Hoopla Hoop-O-Grams–better than a singing telegram–in person or virtual, and way more fun! More info: www.HipTheHoopla.com Please “Like,” visit often & recommend Hip The Hoopla on Facebook for schedule, updates, news and cool videos. http://www.facebook.com/HipTheHoopla Recommendations & testimonials are very appreciated. ~Thank You 🙂 We appreciate your interaction and connectivity! ♥ AUGUST 2013 Hip The Hoopla ♥ ♥http://hipthehoopla.com/classes/♥ *AUGUST 20th, Tues. 6:30pm Special Guest Teacher Felicia Tatum Heyn. About Felicia: Felicia has been happily hooping for about 3 1/2 years and sees absolutely no sign of ever stopping! As a successful holistic bodywork therapist of 12 years she has enjoyed a variety of other fun physical explorations including body building, belly dance and pole dance. “I’ve always felt the need for deep healing through movement, and knew somehow dance was the answer. Hoop dancing, so intricately and gently integrates the body, mind and soul to express it’s energies in loving and creative ways!” She currently enjoys learning to perform and teach hooping with mentor Che Rippinger at Hip the Hoopla. ***♥ PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE! ♥*** Saturday, August 24, 5-9pm with Blue Soul at Boulder Beer Company Recent performances at: |
Success in Chest Hooping: Tips And Tricks
Many people find chest hooping challenging. In a recent comment on Facebook, a hooper commented: “I swear, learning to chest/shoulder hoop is going to be the death of me.” Hope not, but here are some helpful…
Hip The Hoopla tips, tricks and techniques to get you more successfully hooping on your chest, quicker!
Three tips (plus some other helpful hints, too) I use in my Hip The Hoopla class, will help — and FYI, most of my beginners even get it pretty quickly (and a performance video example below):
1. Begin in your warm up with chest isolation movement–without your hoop. Good positions for this are either seated cross legged, or standing with knees in a good bend (abs in, head & spine lifted, pelvis tucked in & under). I like to place hands on upper thighs and use them to push into my maximum chest extension. Move/slide/hit each position: front, right, back, left a few times. Then smooth it out into a solid circle…with your sternum (bottom center of front ribs) leading the movement & connect the points. Speed the chest rotations up and then repeat and reverse that in the other direction (make sure to keep your shoulders parallel to the ground–they are not part of the chest isolation).
2. Start spinning your hoop above your sternum with your arms up and out of your hoop and just get the chest isolation going (while turning!).
3. TURN in the direction you hoop is spinning (and keep turning!). This is not only one of my favorite “recovery” methods to get the hoop back up the body (gravity makes it easy to move it down), it combines well with the other two basics:
Speed up your hoop (not waist/hip) “rotations” or “beats” as I call them–as you are focusing on using two contact points, ie., ‘front/back’, ‘side/side’, etc.
And Duck in (with a little speed wind up).
Important Distinction: When you are hooping on your core (waist/hips) you are NOT circling your body to get the hoop moving. (Way too much work…but if you really want to, knock yourself out!) Just a simple forward & back, or side to side motion will do.
…But…When you are chest hooping (above the breast line), you ARE rotating your chest!
When you want to get your shoulders inside the hoop with your chest hooping, your shoulders will be doing an alternating shoulder shrug (right shoulder up towards right ear, left shoulder to left ear). The shoulder shrug is done–WITH the chest rotations–help keep the hoop up on the chest. (Keep turning!)
When you have chest hooping you can challenge yourself to 1. Not turn with your hoop 2. Chest hoop on your knees (on a soft surface or with knee pads if you can), or 3. Seated (cross legged or seated on your knees).
Helpful tip: Definitely consider what hoop size you use. If you are working with a smaller lighter hoop, chest hooping may be way more challenging for you than trying with a bigger heavier one. (Smaller hoop=you need to go faster/speed up, Bigger hoop=slower so you can catch up/recover more easily)
Getting specific information like this, is just one of the many reasons having a good class or teacher is really important. We can give you great hoop and technique advice, for your particular needs. And we can help you with ideas in the moment, based on what you are doing. You can tweak, correct, practice and get the moves quicker and with greater success and happiness.
With Hip The Hoopla, I like to teach with laughter and joy. That usually makes even challenging or frustrating things much easier to get!
***ALSO, please remember in your hoop practice (and as a metaphor for life):
You don’t have to get 100 of anything in a row for you to have the move. One or two successful rotations really do count when it comes to muscle memory and brain success 🙂 Keep practicing!!!
Thank you Rachyl Frank for your inspiration 🙂
♥Hoop love & blessings ♥
~Ché Rippinger, head hoopstress at Hip The Hoopla based in Denver, Colorado
Please contact for classes, coaching, hoops & performances. 303-980-6295 Che@HipTheHoopla.com www.facebook.com/HipTheHoopla www.HipTheHoopla.com
Here’s two video channels to see Hip The Hoopla in action (more performance and tutorial videos soon): www.youtube/HipTheHoopla and www.youtube/ToucheToon
And here is a video example of my chest hooping from one performance (chest hooping at about :46 and 1:12)
Che Rippinger of Hip The Hoopla performing-example of chest hooping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP9AaDxjIfY
Hoopspiration-Balance, Focus, Concentration
WOW-Here is a Hoopspirational-worthy video of extreme balance, concentration, dance and beauty! In-joy <3
~Che’ Rippinger of Hip The Hoopla
5/18/13, Sat. 10am Hip The Hoopla class theme: Focus.
“Bring A Friend for $10” until the end of May (you and a friend can come for $10 each, save $5 each!)
http://www.facebook.com/events/598916990125962/
Classes held at Red Elephant Workshop in Denver, 244 Sante Fe Drive.
Please call, or e-mail or facebook your RSVP. 303-980-6295, Che@HipTheHoopla.com, www.Faceboook.com/
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Hip The Hoopla Performing at StarFest
“Super Trooper Hooper” Ché Ripinger
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Hip The Hoopla Performing at StarFest
Friday, April 19, 2013 at 9pm with Champion for the Denver Digifest Kickoff party. Ché was also interviewed by FOX31 KDVR.com in Denver and Examiner.com
Stay for the whole StarFest extravaganza or at least check out
Sunday, 4/21 her hubby Bill Owen of Elevated Color will present: “Getting Found In Web Searches” there, from 1-2pm at the Marriott DTC (4900 S. Syracuse St., Denver), Digifest 1 Room.
Click Here for more Digifest Party Info
There is a phone app with the entire fab schedule (including Stan Lee-creator of Spider Man!!) Already met a real Oompa Loompa – Deep Roy at the Press Party 🙂
~Ché Rippinger has been a cartoonist for over 20 years with Touché! Cartoons, as well as the teacher, performer, coach and hoop-maker of Hip The Hoopla-humorous hoop dance fitness. For more info, please call 303-980-6295 or e-mail Che@HipTheHoopla.com.
Improve Your Skills–Take a Workshop!
Want to fuel your creativity or jump your skills to a new level?
There are many training options…
1. Take a workshop!
Many instructors travel around. Find them, connect with them and see what their schedule is. If you’re not on it, reach out and offer to help host them in your town. You get so much out of in-person instruction and connect with your fellow friends and peer community.
Recent Example: Vivian Spiral’s “Dancing on The Edge: Wheels, Rolls, Traces and Spirals” held at the Boulder Circus Center in Boulder, Colorado. 
2. Go to a conference/retreat/camp.
This may be as simple as a one day excursion or a week or more of intense learning. Travel may be involved, unless you’re lucky to have it in your neck of the woods. You may have an excuse to plan a vacation getaway halfway across the globe to expand your horizons. Or even in your own backyard.
Example: The Spin Summit, Colorado Springs, Colorado, May 2-5, 2013. Click here to register! 
3. Learn Virtually.
From YouTube videos to dvds to personal coaching via Skype, there are many ways to connect with some phenomenal teachers all over the world. Prices range, but spending a little more on personal tutoring can make all the difference in catapulting your know-how.
Examples: www.YouTube/TheSpinSummit and
www.YouTube/ToucheToon and www.YouTube/HipTheHoopla
Whatever your path to learning, the key is to take any steps to get there. You can find what works best for you by trying something and seeing if you like it. Hoop On!!
~Ché Rippinger is the owner, instructor and performer of Hip The Hoopla—humorous hoop dance fitness. She offers group and private classes, coaching, thoughtful critiques, performance tips, custom made professional hoops, jewelry and costuming. For more updates and “hoopspiration,” please follow on Facebook www.facebook.com/HipTheHoopla, (and Pinterest, YouTube, Twitter and LinkedIn, too!).
Hip The Hoopla March Madness
Happy Ides of March & St. Patrick’s Day!
Blessings~Ché of Hip The Hoopla
Class theme Saturday 3/16 at 10am “Twist”
Info: http://www.facebook.com/events/419603358134654/
Hoop Entreprenur Tips & Business Advice
How To Start a Hoop Business (Tips, Tricks & Advice)
…or Get ANY Business Going With A Better Plan & Successful Media Efforts
Hip The Hoopla-Che' makes hoops!
A new hooper wanted to know about making hoops & making money off of it. Here’s Che’ Rippinger of Hip The Hoopla’s advice how much they cost to make & tips for your business growth:
Cost is over the map $$$…depending on the materials you use, where you order from, and in what quantity (Then you need to calculate what you’ll charge based on what the market allows + your quality & experience). You’ll have to do the leg work and crunch your own numbers on these to figure out what works best for you. Making hoops, much like hooping, take some time & practice to learn & get right/aka better!
And here’s 3 more Hoop Entrepreneur tips…
1) Check out www.discounthoopingsupplies.com or your local hardware stores.
2) YouTube has lots of instructional videos.
3.) Groups (online and in person) are a good place to ask questions…Do make sure you contribute there, too!
Most of us in business have spent a great deal of time, energy, and money to learn what we do professionally. Please connect with Hip The Hoopla or Elevated Color now for your own private consultations, consulting and coaching on how to:
- Get your business started
- Promote your business
- Get Social Media Marketing & PR training, advice and your own personalize action plan
- Get Ongoing Coaching & Motivation for continued success
- Figure out how to do it all with a customized strategy
- …or anything else that might help you get your small business…bigger! We have lots of resources for you!
