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!