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Foot Hooping: How to Hula Hoop On Your Foot!
Learn how to hula hoop ON YOUR FOOT (or Feet!) with 10 ESSENTIAL “Foot Hooping” tips, tricks techniques to help you successfully “Foot Hoop” fast, with Che’ Rippinger of Hip The Hoopla. Experience the super fun and healthy benefits of hooping and happy living — visit http://www.HipTheHoopla. com — for classes, performances & custom hoops!
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10 Essential Tips To Hoop On Feet Successfully:
- ♥ Start the hoop rotating on your hand.
- ♥ Slide pointed foot up the arm (keep foot and arm connected TOGETHER as ONE rotation point!), into the hoop, and slide the hand out.
- ♥ Go Barefoot! 🙂 Better grip!
- ♥ Use a mat to protect your spine and joints.
- ♥ Hoop on the instep of your foot (toe hooping is harder to control, and keep on the foot).
- ♥ You can do a hoop “break”–sending the hoop in the opposite direction by tapping the non-hooping foot on the outside of the hoop–quickly and gently.
- ♥ Watch your FACE! The hoop will be coming down unexpectedly while you are mastering this new trick. A Smaller, LIGHTER Hoop is recommended for this reason! FYI: Smaller and lighter will rotate faster, but hurts less when it bonks you!
- ♥ The hoop will also be flying off of your foot when starting…probably a Lot…move breakables and keep practicing! 🙂
- ♥ When the hoop slides down the ankle, slide other foot in and up and catch hoop back on the instep of either of your feet .
- ♥ You can move the foot hooping leg to angles by flexing your foot (Flexing acts as a “foot break”…when you point the foot it will release the hoop–so you can catch it, toss it, or transition into other moves!
For more information on hooping, hoop dance, custom professional hoops, group classes, private lessons, coaching, or to book for performances and events, please visit http://www.HipTheHoopla.com Hip The Hoopla is all about increasing your health and happiness through hooping and humor. If this resonates with you, please give us a call! #foothooping #howtofoothoop #foothooptricks
Video Highlights:
0:00 How to Get “Foot Hooping” Tips and Tricks Introduction
0:09 How to Start the Hoop Rotation to Put on Foot
0:20 The Mermaid/Water Movement Technique
0:40 How to get the Foot into the Rotating Hoop
0:49 How to do a Foot Break to Change Rotation Direction
1:00 Practice Time / Hoop Flying Warning
1:09 Importance of Rhythm and Consistent Timing
1:20 How to Switch Feet /Get Hoop Rotating on Both Feet Technique
1:42 Do Socks Help Foot Hooping? IMPORTANT FOOT HOOPING TIP
2:20 Foot Hooping Is A Great Ab Workout!
2:27 How to Turn While Foot Hooping
2:53 Foot Hooping Recovery Technique for Hoop Coming Down from toe to ankle
3:18 How to Start Foot Hooping with Kick Up Position Technique (Hoop hook, with push/pull movement) 4:18 Fab Over 40 Hoop Group
4:26 Love to Connect and Learn More? Visit http://www.HipTheHoopla.com to learn from Master Dance Instructor Che’ Rippinger of Hip The Hoopla
– Enjoy Hooping & Welcome To The Circle ♥ O ♥
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• Hoop Jam Sessions: https://tinyurl.com/vbdkmvu
• Laughter Yoga Exercises: https://tinyurl.com/rph32tn
• The “WRAP WINDER COMBO” hoop dance combo using snake arms: https://youtu.be/aMAMOxY9bNs
• Learn How To Hoop/Best Waist Hooping Techniques: https://youtu.be/_-19rkoay8w
• The Corkscrew Combo Tutorial: https://youtu.be/puyNA3_19d0
• Hoop Love Ya’ll Show FULL Playlist on YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/ux727q6
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“Finger Twist” Hoop Trick Tutorial
Brand new short “Finger Twist” off-body hoop trick tutorial! 💞Thank you for watching, hitting “Thumbs Up” and Subscribing to my channel for more great videos.
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~Che’ Rippinger, Founder, Chief Hooping Oficer, Professional Hoopsmith (Hoopmaker), Instructor, Perfomer, and Hoop Love Ya’ll Show Host
~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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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.)
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.)
WTF3X Challenge
WTF is the WTF3X Challenge?
Probably a little different then you are thinking!
In a nutshell WTF stands for:
Wednesday-Werk It!
Thursday-Try It!
Friday-Free Flow Fly It!
X3 means it’s a 3 week challenge. (There…now you are all decoded.) All levels are welcome!
One of the unique things about this WTF3X Challenge is that you can participate on whatever level(s) you feel comfortable growing with. You can do any or all of the following and benefit:
• Smile ~ Increase your brain’s integrative neural pathways with positive input and laughter.
• Dance ~ Learn or find your own dance style.
• Hoop ~ Tips and techniques to help your hooping skills.
Wanna sign up? Click Here.
WTF3X Challenge Details:
WHAT: WTF3X Challenge SIGN UP! (Free, $50 or $112) #wtf3xchallenge
WHEN: Wednesday June 12, 2019-Friday June 28, 2019
WHY: To get a little happier, learn to move and groove your dance a little more, to get or advance your hula hooping skills and mix this all together into a blossoming, progress-seeking YOU!
TIME: Exactly what you put in is the personal benefit you will get out–10 minutes to 2 hours a week for 3 short weeks. You can count on watching a short video (1-5 minutes) each of the WTF days (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday), plus time checking in and posting to the Facebook group, and whatever practice time you put in the effort for. And bonus extra credit might even earn you some extra brownie points (and maybe even a little prize or gift?!)
INVESTMENT: This is SOOOOO easy–no matter what your income status, this *no excuse* to not participate! (P.S. These prices will *not* stay this low!)
Citrine:
FREE! This is for participation in the private Facebook Group with WTF Posting Videos, and group camaraderie!
Commit to Citrine
Aquamarine:
$50 This includes the private Facebook Group with WTF Posting Videos, and group camaraderie!
PLUS One Online Training Class a week (which will further dive into the technique to better help you get, solidify and find more ways to add these moves into your own toolbox)
Act NOW on Aquamarine
Amethyst:
$112 This includes the private Facebook Group with WTF Posting Videos, and group camaraderie!
PLUS One Online Training Class a week (which will further dive into the technique to better help you get, solidify and find more ways to add these moves into your own toolbox)
PLUS ***3*** :20 minute Private Personal ONE ON ONE Check In Sessions–by video, phone or messaging with Che’ Rippinger*, Founder of Hip The Hoopla.
All in for Amethyst
What you will need for the WTF3x Challenge…
• A good attitude with a willingness to learn, try, and practice!
• A smartphone or computer
• Water for brain and body hydration and comfortable clothes.
• Clearance/permission from your health care professionals (doctor, naturopath or caretaker).
Disclaimer: The WTF3x Challenge program is not intended to diagnose, nor promises to heal any ailments. By participating you agree to the responsibility of any and all risk, and agree to take care of your own body, using proper safety and precaution in deciding what is and isn’t appropriate to do, based on your own personal needs.
Questions? Comments? Feedback? Please contact Che’ Rippinger*, Founder, Hip The Hoopla 303-919-9280 (call or text) or message on Facebook (www.Facebook.com/HipTheHoopla or private message. Or connect with us through the Facebook private WTF3XChallenge group.
*Che’ Rippinger is the Founder of Hip The Hoopla. With 8 years in the hooping business, 10 years experience hooping, 30+ years dancing/teaching, background in natural healing, happy wellness coaching, +pro humor years cartooning, and writing a major newspaper column–on life and relationships, Che’ likes to keep the educational commentary loving, light and positive.
Join Us for WTF3X
Wednesdays: Werk It!
Thursdays: Try It!
Friday: Free Flow Fly It!