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5 Best Tips When Learning
It doesn’t matter if you hula hoop or not. Here’s my 5 BEST tips when learning. Let’s GO!
My #1 one favorite LEARNING TIP?
1.) When you are trying to learn something new…try saying “I GOT THIS” to yourself.* At first you may not believe it to be true…but eventually, with practice, it WILL Be!
In addition to this “I GOT This” exclamation/affirmation Here’s my other (not so secret Now!) learning tips:
2.) Most of us work well with positive reinforcement. We are usually so quick to pull ourselves down, so anytime we can counteract our own negative forces, is a positive leap in the right direction.
3.) I have a saying, “Tell the universe what you want, not what you don’t, because the universe cant take a joke.” Putting forth what you do want, will help you way more to actually achieve it.
4.) When you focus on what you want, you magnetize it to you.
5.) *P.S. If it just feels so weird to say something positive, that you just know you won’t believe…try saying THIS! The simple switch to stop using the word “Can’t” and also adding in the word “YET” will be a positive learning game changer!
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Hoop Cross Training: Dance Footwork
If you’ve ever just danced in place, this will get you moving around more with your hoop tricks. This Hoop “Cross” training will help your dance footwork for hooping, plus give you more variety and creativity to try new combinations.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.)
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.)
How To Get The Most Out of Workshops and Events
Going to a great workshop, conference, or learning event?
Here’s 8 of my favorite ways to get the most out of the conference/event/workshops you’ve invested your valuable time, money and energy into.
1.) Take a notebook…take actual notes and make some stick figure illustrations to help you with positioning, movement, direction, things that make sense to you, etc.
2.) Take video of the summaries, if you can. Make sure you do NOT post these anywhere, as that’s the instructor’s livelihood.
3.) If you can, get video of Yourself doing/demonstrating the moves, or even explaining it, that’s really helpful! Part of the reason is that your brain will be spinning with all the new info you will learn in those many learning moments.
Plus, the videos will help you remember that you actually DID get these moves (at least once in the workshops!), and are possible again, with patience, and lots of practice.
4.) Review your favorite parts you want to remember right away…it’ll help you retain the information.
5.) If you can, teach your new information to someone else, that will also help solidify the info even deeper so it stays in your mental toolbox. Make sure you credit your source, and just share some key key points, or cool moves, not the whole workshop, so people are interested in studying with that instructor when they can.
6.) Another note that I’ve kept true to for many, many years…Pick “one golden nugget,” just for you, from each thing you go to. That will serve you well over time, and help you feel better when you can’t remember it all (but paid to be there and participated!).
7.) Meet others, and get their contact info!* You may end up having them as a friend for years to come, as a colleague to share notes and review with, and to expand your community connection. So many wins!
8.) BONUS TIP: Always have fun. You’ll be happy to remember something you really enjoyed.
If you put these 8 tips into play, you will retain new information Sooooo much better, gain fabulous friends, and really get the most value that you can possibly can from all of your experiences!
~Che’ Rippinger, Professional Hoop Dancer, Instructor, Coach, Performer, Hoopsmith, and Founder of Hip The Hoopla www.HipTheHoopla.com
♥ *This is dedicated to Josanne Jackson of the Fab❤Over 40 Hoop Community, who inspired this article!
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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.
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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!