I am getting a bit sick, but I still went to hoop practice. So glad I did!

I practiced some super slow double hooping to Buddha Bar music and it was quite meditative. I did the usual moves, but then played with imagining both hoops were actually one. I flipped them around my body continually, and let my body wrap around them and be wrapped by them. It was really kind of passionate and intimate. Erin said it looked like I was treating them like my babies.

I liked the over back propeller especially and also played with body stacking like I have seen Rainbo Flo do -- using the hoops almost like Native American dance props. Trying them out like wings sailing gently through the breeze and then stacked vertically for twirling. Double handed stalls, two as one vertical isolations, flip offs, atomic twirls, matrix, etc.

Played for a while self fanning while hooping on legs (as I saw Elena do in her recent YouTube video -- Hot!), Stefan one-leg step outs, karate kids. Played for a while with slow motion vertical hoop spinning and continually stepping and jumping through the hoop at every possible angle, interspersing with body breaks off feet, thighs and bum. Also included lots of eagles, chest rolls, whispers, tosses into jumps and stalls, etc. My thought is to continue practicing this in super slow motion so that eventually I can accelerate to a super crazy speed and precision.

I was really inspired by Erin, as usual. She has total control of the hoop on her foot while doing all kinds of circus contortions and yoga poses. Also, particularly cool was her striking of profound poses between that shoulder pop move and full stops to reversals... she has taken on a lot of the habits of Spiral with eloquent pauses and rounded or anglular limbs ... simillar to what I have been exploring as well... the curvature of the foot, the knee, the hands, the arm, the neck, the torso... all of these things can be played with to create dynamism and framing in the dance.

Thank you Creator for continuing to send inspiring women my way!