Weave Flow

Yay I'm celebrating for a new "trick"... not really a trick, more like a natural flow.

First I had to nail my front to back weave transitions, so I just kept doing them over and over until I could do them without thinking. This is where you rotate your body 180 mid-weave and simultaneously transition from front weave to back weave or vice versa. It was a lot harder smoothing out the clockwise rotations than it was the CC, go figure.

Once I got these rotations nailed, I realised that I could do a continuous circular body rotation instead of just moving 180. So I started doing FW-turn-BW-turn-FW-turn, etc. continuously.

A few days later, I realised that I could rotate my weave without rotating my body, so that if I could be running a forward weave with my torso torqued 90 degrees leftward, than I could simply rotate my torso 180 (to the right), keeping my feet firmly planted, and in doing so switch to the back weave, on the right side. Neat!

It was only natural at that point to realise that I could stop, start, or reverse both my body rotation, my torso rotation, and my weave direction at ANY TIME in the dance, and I didn't need to have set entry / exit points or "cardinal directions". That was where the fun began. For like 20 minutes I listened to a series of songs (a good mix of 180bpm techno and 45bpm folk FYI) and just freely explored the bodyspace inside the coccoon of the weave. I stopped thinking about where the poi actually were and my body naturally rotated, my wrists naturally reversed when needed, and I reveled in the dance.

backflip 101

oh yes, spiderman cometh!

Steve Harvey's Big Time Challenge

Prolly not a Burner, but a Hooper true to heart:

look, pa, new tricks!

yay, this week I learned two new hoop tricks:

1. the ability to do a lift and without hesitation bring it back down to the waist (with an optional acceleration, nice)... the trick to this was to realize I needed to rotate my hand full around the barrel from inside to outside kind of using my thumb like a hook... I got it from doing: lift, beat, drop, and kept going until i removed the wait beat.

2. that thing i see everyone do where they pump their arms in and out of the hoop one after the other (it looks like some crazed 60s go go dance :) ... that was way easier than i thought, and again I got into it by just putting one arm in, waiting, remove arm, wait, put other arm in (down), wait, etc... then just got more and more in tune to the beat of the hoop and started pumping it without the waits.

3. the neat thing is, both these things have allowed me to come a lot closer to achieving one of my own holy grails, the precision timing of the hoop rotation to the beat of the music.

4. the laser hoop is coming! stay tuned!

In the Flow

Some say "dance like no ones watching"... I say, "Hoop in your underwear!" Greetings, Earthlings! I come from the Planet Hooplaughteron!



PS - beats by Bassnectar. Unless you are allergic to ass-shaking, BUY THIS ALBUM NOW!

PPS - black socks R kewl