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I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

topic posted Mon, January 19, 2009 - 2:16 PM by  Hoola Monster 		Share/Save/Bookmark
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Hello, Hoopers!

As many of you know, there's been lots of talk in the Hula Hooping Tribe, as well as the Hooping Journal Tribe about critiquing, comparing and feedback... GREAT conversations, by the way.

I've been thinking about the discussions all day today, and I had an idea. (Btw, if you haven't read Khan's post in the Hooping Journal Tribe or Caroleeena's in the Hula Hooping Tribe, you should check them out). I thought it would be fun for us to go back and post our very first hooping videos. You know, the ones that we look back on and are a little embarrassed of... the video where it's all still so new to us, and 'Flow' isn't even a word in our vocabularies yet. So, with that said, here's mine... (pay close attention to the limping chicken head bob at :32 - it's pretty sweet!)

www.youtube.com/watch

Let's laugh at ourselves and be proud of where we've been and where we're going. There's always a starting point, and I know you guys have these videos too. Bax, Christabel, Ann, Spiral, Sharna, Beth, Rich, Shakti, G. Meggz, Michelle, Natasha, Catherine, and all the rest of you lovely hoopers... show me yours. I showed you mine ;)
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  • Lulu...
    Lulu Hoop *aka* Levona
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    Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

    Mon, January 19, 2009 - 11:55 PM
    This is awesome! Keep 'em coming. I still haven't made my first vid yet. And I can't do a lot of the moves you guys did in your first vids. :) But it's really cool to see how much progress others have made! Great idea :-)
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    • Mond
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      Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

      Tue, January 20, 2009 - 1:07 PM
      I love this! More, more! It's so helpful for us noobs..: ))
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      • Ann
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        Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

        Tue, January 20, 2009 - 1:35 PM
        Damn it, I *just* made that shit private!!! Y'all are determined to bust my ego! ; P

        In the spirit of newbie-ism--here 'tis, in all its awkward, stupid-feeling, cringe-inducing glory:

        www.youtube.com/watch

        Points of interest:

        * This was filmed in that celebrated locale, Baxter's backyard, birthplace of the Hoop Path.

        * The *BAM* that you hear in the middle is Bax's hoop hitting the shed (and not a gunshot, as you might suppose)

        * I had been hooping (daily) for about 6 months at this point

        * Kimo was there too!
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        • FireFly
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          Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

          Tue, January 20, 2009 - 1:47 PM
          Aww.....Ann, I loved it, loved it, loved it!!! When it ended I realized I had been grinning from ear to ear the whole time. This is a great thread....MORE! MORE!
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          • beth
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            Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

            Tue, January 20, 2009 - 2:08 PM
            Okay, here goes. These are two of the first videos made of me hooping that i know about. (if there are others, I probably DON'T want to know about them!) These were made in the summer of '06 after I'd been hooping already for several years on the Weaver Street Lawn. I seem to remember having a bad headache that day and being uncomfortable in my unflattering and ill-fitting cutoffs that revealed my even less flattering boyshorts underneath. The music was actually more hoopable than most that we danced to on the lawn, but it certainly didn't inspire the most spirited movement. I love these videos because they capture the chaotic vibe of the famous Weaver Street Lawn and because the videos also feature two of my dearest hoop-pals, Spiral and Bonnie. That's Baxter's goading voice in the background. The last video makes me laugh every time.


            www.youtube.com/watch

            www.youtube.com/watch
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            • Caro...
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              Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

              Tue, January 20, 2009 - 2:17 PM
              Okay, that made me laugh too. It was fun to hear Bax being so impressed. (Me too! I've never seen you do that move!) I enjoyed watching you all and slipping back through time. It seems like just yesterday and yet it was two and a half years ago. Wow. You were still very good then and you've gotten even better over the intervening years. All of you have. Thank you for posting these.
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        • Caro...
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          Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

          Tue, January 20, 2009 - 2:20 PM
          Ann I remember the first time I ever saw this video. I was like, "Whoa! She just started hooping and look at her go!!!" This was one of those times when I got to practice cultivating non-comparison myself! You got so good, so fast, that I had to work to not be daunted by it. And in the year since then you have continued to grow exponentially. It's been a pleasure to watch and I love watching you hoop.

          Abby, I remember your video too. I guess it's a testiment to how many of these things I watch. I really enjoy watching everyone grow and get better over time. You're all so very inspiring!!!

          Lucian, I remember your video too! It's wild how much you've improved (even though you were pretty much rocking it even early on). I'd forgotten about this video and it was fun to see it again. What a sweet little dog! I remembered the video but I'd forgotten the dog. (And I usually remember animals. It's a testament to how good your first video was.)

          Meg, I don't think I'd seen your video before but you were still very good and that's a pretty place.

          Gabby, you too. It's amazing how fast you zoomed into leg hooping. That took me years!!!!

          It's fun watching everyone's "Remember when" videos. It's like "Before" and "After" vids ... only the "After vids go on and on and on.... I love it. This is why I watch videos. It's funny to think that when I started hooping, there were hardly any hooping videos. Baby look at us now!!!
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          • jewels
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            Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

            Tue, January 20, 2009 - 2:56 PM

            This is my first practice video (though there is probably some hidden footage around that hasn't made it into edited format for youtube=). This was also filmed in Bax's backyard. I appreciate him helping me film and upload this one to youtube as I had been practicing for over five years, but hadn't invested in a camera to capture practice or performance footage. I rarely post practice footage these days, but it sure is nice to witness and document one's own progression of practice.

            www.youtube.com/watch

            This video WAY pre-dates the above, but was found and loaded MUCH later. This is one of Spiral's and my first fire performances in early 2004. From the looks of it, it pre-dates angle and maybe leg hooping in our worlds=) We made our first sets in late '03 and immediately came into this interesting gig. We found this excavating vintage footage last year and found it absolutely hilarious and humbling. It is fun to see how far the practice has come. I'm sure at this time, I'd never have imagined hooping with two fire hoops simultaneously!

            www.youtube.com/watch
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  • Caro...
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    Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

    Tue, January 20, 2009 - 2:43 PM
    Alright, I can't believe I'm going to do this ... This is a little hoop ritual that me and AliCat and Valerie and Pamelala did to celebrate Earth Day at Shakori Hills in 2006. The drummers are our friends Rythmicity. As soon as we touched our hoops together, us, the four elements, we brought a huge thunderstorm! I mean, it freaking poured. It rained so hard that you can't even see it raining. You just see our clothes getting progressively wetter and wetter and wetter... (The drummers were under a shelter.) My hoop was wrapped with electrical tape and it became so slick, I couldn't even hold it. By the end, I could hardly hoop at all -- both because it was slippery and because I was laughing so hard. You can hear it on the tape. Still, I love these girls and my drummer friends and my buddy Paul who filmed this. I'm glad we all had that experience together, even if I can hardly watch it now because I feel so embarrassed. Still, it's funny.

    www.youtube.com/watch
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  • khan
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    Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

    Tue, January 20, 2009 - 3:19 PM
    This is my first video that has hooping in it. It's a weird one because it's more of an artsy-fartsy music video than a proper hoop vid. However, it was the first time I captured and posted any of my hooping on tape. I had been hooping for 3 months when it was filmed and had just started playing around with minis. June 2006:

    www.youtube.com/watch

    This one is my first straight-up hoop video and first posted practice session. I'd been hooping for one year + 4 months at this time. July 2007:

    www.youtube.com/watch
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    • Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

      Tue, January 20, 2009 - 3:31 PM
      This was my 5 month anniversary. I was so shy and nervous of posting but somehow I felt as if I would be safe here posting in this tribe and I was :-) I would never have believed then that I would go on to post so many video's. Funny eh? The camera always limits me, the need to perform in one form or another, for perfection, for whatever monkey chatter swishes around my mind, I remember being all disappointed with myself because I froze and nearly fell over....still milestone it was :-)

      Youtube took away the original music which is "Oxygen" by Willy Mason, so it seems a bit odd but I had to change the music swift or loose it forever :-(

      uk.youtube.com/watch
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  • Claudia
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    Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

    Tue, January 20, 2009 - 3:38 PM
    All of these videos are so great! Most of you guys were still so talented even from the beginning!!

    I took my first video after about 2 months of hooping - so nothing looks very spectacular...and I look extremely sad/angry due to the amount of concentration I needed to pull off any hoop moves...

    www.youtube.com/watch


    yeesh.
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    • Bonnie
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      Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

      Tue, January 20, 2009 - 4:05 PM
      OMG, Beth I totally forgot about that video. Wow, that brings back a lot of memories. The next one we did together too in Bax's yard, while he and Ann dealt with the police cuz his house had been robbed....ummm awkward....yeah, I've never seen that footage, which is probably a good thing.

      I love watching all of these. It's really great to see each person climb their own mountain and progress on their path. What a great way to start of the "real new year".

      Love.
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      • Hool...
        Hoola Monster
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        Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

        Tue, January 20, 2009 - 4:33 PM
        YES! This is so wonderful. I forgot to mention that mine was taken after three months of hooping (and it's definitely apparent in the video... I had a lot of learning ahead of me ;)

        It's really cool to see everyone's early vids. Caroleeena, I'm like you - in the sense that I watch a TON of hooping videos on You Tube. So, I had seen a number of these already but it's still nice to go back and see my hooping idols in their early stages.

        Ann, I love your bouncy-ness. Lucian, you are so exploratory in yours... I could definitley relate to that feeling. Jewels, I know that one of you and Spiral is old because I haven't heard that song in YEARS! You guys were still rocking out, even back then. Beth, I've been cyber-stalking you for a while now, so I had seen those videos on your You Tube, but it was great to see them again. Meggz , I've seen yours too but your smile + the rocks and water is a great combination. It's obvious that you were a hooper at heart, even then. Caroleeena, that video was awesome. Nothing to be embarassed about at all. It appeared to be some sort of tribal goddess rain dance, and I love how you hug and hold the hoop in front of you at the end, so it frames your faces. Claudia- yours made me smile, even if you were pissed off in it :) Gabby - I love it when, each time you do a trick, the camera person cheers! You seem so happy in this video. Khan, the effects on your 'Looking Glass' video totally tripped me out. It was awesome. Your hooping was WAY smoother than mine was at 3 months :) Plus, there are two of you which makes it even better. Sharna, I think you were born a badass. It's so wonderful to have a glimpse back to your beginning. You've inspired so many, and it's humbling to know that we all started somewhere. And I find it really interesting that, even in our early days, there are traits and movements that are true to the individual. They manifest over time, but I can see glimpses of what's to come by watching these. It's a beautiful thing.
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  • j. flo
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    Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

    Thu, January 22, 2009 - 7:22 PM
    i've been hooping for about 5 months and have been very hesitant to post something on here-mainly because of my lack of dancing skills-you'll notice, especially with the barrel rolls, that my arms are tucked up tight-like a newborn baby. and you'll love the nervous leg maneuver before i do the vertical step through:) i learned a lot by watching myself in this and i'm working on it. oh-and my vortexes aren't usually that wonky-i'm just getting used to the weight of the battery in the led hoop. i hope this helps you all to get to know me a bit better. i'm going to work on posting videos of my hooping space and me introducing myself (but i'm a dork so don't get too excited). i think i might change my screen name to jflo (jen flores) instead of jen (but you can still call me jen;), which is a bit boring compared to all of your unique names...

    so now that i've got all the disclaimers out of the way, here goes nothing...
    www.youtube.com/watch
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  • silv...
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    Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

    Fri, January 23, 2009 - 3:48 PM
    I'm in the process of uploading all my existing hoop videos to vimeo (because youtube deleted a bunch of my practice videos recently - the whole music debacle). The computer I had at home when I started hooping is RIP, so when I started looking through my new computer to see which videos had survived, I found some extreme old school videos that made me cringe and laugh.

    I started hooping in July 2006 and this pair of videos was made in August 06, almost exactly one month to the day that I started hooping. I didn't have a digital camera at the time, so I borrowed the one we had at work so that I could show my mom some of that new-fangled hooping stuff I was talking about. In the first one, be sure to notice the butter churning hand.

    Check it:
    vimeo.com/2573570
    vimeo.com/2573641

    Sadly, I didn't make any more videos until the following January (when I finally got a digital camera of my own). I wish I had been tracking my progress the whole time. It's great to look back and see where I started!
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  • Sara...
    Sarasvati
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    Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

    Fri, January 23, 2009 - 3:49 PM
    I must admit I am still a little off balance on my feet when trying to pay more attention to the hoop. But I have been hooping since June now and I am getting better as the days go by. Yoga is really helping with my balance. Hooping has been an inspiration to me as I am sure that it has with many of you. Its not only a form of dance but also a form of meditation. I enjoy watching all of your videos and would love to comment on all of them but then I would be on this computer all day when I could be practicing ;-P

    I LOVE ALL OF YOU DIVINE BEINGS! HAPPY HOOPING AND NAMASTE!

    BRANDY SARASVATI

    www.youtube.com/watch
    hope you enjoy mine
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  • Kellsey
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    Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

    Fri, January 23, 2009 - 9:20 PM
    Oh this is so much fun! It is so great to see where we've all come from and how much we've all grown. Here is my video. I had been hooping for about four months at this point and it was my very first performance, which was for a local talent competition. It was the first time I had performed anything anywhere in about three years so needless to say...I was quite nervous and I distinctly remember focusing more on not puking than I was on my hooping. At the end, I was soooooo glad it was over but I had soooooo much fun and couldn't wait to do it again! Enjoy!

    vids.myspace.com/index.cfm
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      Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

      Sun, January 25, 2009 - 12:20 AM
      OK - one from the vaults! Here's my first hooping video from 2003, I had just started hooping that summer and this was in the winter, I don't remember when. It was shot at a benefit party at a yoga studio for a friend with breast cancer, some folks may remember this. I just uploaded it to youtube and it is great to see how far I've come and that I'm still hooping here in 2009 and still crazy about it!

      www.youtube.com/watch

      It's funny to look back and see how wobbly I was, and how I do the chicken-head bob dance too. Yet, it's still awesome and fun, and I love that I still have so much improvement and growth that I can look forward to as well.
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  • Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

    Sun, January 25, 2009 - 10:22 AM
    Abby, thank goodness it was Sunday when I found this! I've really enjoyed watching everyone's first videos. Some old favorites. But it has given me a huge problem with this non-comparison ideal which I was trying to foster. Just how people could do what they were doing at a few months practice is amazing!

    I very nearly wimped out as a result. But here is my first video. I'm using a hoop the size of the moon and I don't do much with it. I'd like to say I'm better now, but other than using a smaller hoop, I'm not that sure.

    www.vimeo.com/302003
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    • Caro...
      Caroleeena
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      Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

      Sun, January 25, 2009 - 2:00 PM
      Sue, I loved everything about your video. I really needed that shot of springtime and birds singing and that song is great (I'd never heard it before) and you do a great job also. Thank you for sharing this. It lifted my spirits.
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      • Re: I'll show you mine, if you show me yours! One for the Newbies...

        Sun, January 25, 2009 - 6:05 PM
        aww man!! I so wish I could join in!! I guess the oldest footage I have is this one(which I have already posted).. but I had already been hooping for 3 years or so by then.. It is amazing how much quicker everyone progresses now! I mean if you compare what I was doing after three years to what Ann was doing after six months .. wow! I have another "first" demo that is the oldest, but alas all I have is the vhs tape.. talk about old!

        www.youtube.com/watch

        spin till your dizzy.. then spin some more!!

        xo~Anah
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