Hi,

I'm based in North East London and am equally keen to get more of a hoop scene going on in the UK. I know of a few hoopers dotted around Brighton and Bristol but have been battling to find anyone closer to home to play with! I started hooping last year and am dying to learn more tricks.

Well, so far I have the amazing ability to not drop the hoop for about 2 minutes - but I'm getting better. i found that 1inch hoops are much easier to keep spinning than the 3/4 inch hoops but they tend to inflict bumps and bruises when I try to learn a trick (finally getting the hang of lifting the hoop from waist to overhead).

I'm in Bridgwater btw - it's south of Bristol.

Hi Sharna
So pleased to have joined your tribe today and know that I am not the only hooper in the U.K. although I am quite far away from you guys down south (Harrogate, North Yorks)
I do teach very basic hoop classes and have got some fantastic results both for myself and my class members with ab toning. It works so amazingly well and I can tell you when you've had twins, you need it.
The best thing I love about hooping is the fantastic feeling you get while you're doing it: freedom, relaxed, chilled, fun (especially with the groovy beats going on in the charts at the moment). I just want to get better at this and have been so inspired by some of things I've seen in the U.S. that I've been working really hard to get Diana Lopez of BodyHoops and BettyHoops (yoga hoop dance) to come over here to do a conference for us. The only thing is that we need to get 13 participants in order to be able to cover the costs. We do have the offer of a free venue in LEEDS, but I guess that would be quite far for you guys to come. I've managed to get some discounts from local B&Bs if you wouldn't mind sharing. Anyway, if anyone is interested just go onto my tribe thingy (i'm new to tribe as you can tell).

I live in southampton at the moment during university term time, and kent during the holidays - though I am in london a lot during the summer and every few weekends otherwise..

I have only ever met one other hooper, I hope to meet some more soon!

Hi everyone,

I am right in the middle of the country. Nuneaton, between Birmingham, Coventry and Leicester.

I run the Nuneaton Juggling Club on a Friday Evening and we are all getting well into Hooping as well as Poi, Unicycling, Juggling, Tightrope etc etc.

So if you are in the area any Friday evening come and join us.

Details at; www.jugglingclub.co.uk

We could even arrange to meet up in the local park over a weekend if we know you are coming.

Hoping to meet up with you all at a convention or certification event some time.

John the Juggler. :-)

Hi everyone, I just joined today :)
Anyone from the west midlands, or around that area?
I'm from Malvern in Worcester, which is about an hour away from Birmingham.

I saw the Heart FM ad a few weeks ago and was hooked straight away!
I've bought a hoop and the HoopGirl dvd, which I'm just waiting on (shouldn't be too much longer I hope) and I'm so excited about it!
I haven't got any experience in dance or anything and I was never any good at hooping as a child... anyone else in the same boat?? Oh well, at least I'll have fun trying :)

Hope to talk to you all soon,
Natasha

Hey all--
I am an intermediate hooper, (videos of me at Burning Man can be found on videos.google.com by searching "Kapilina firespinning"). I was in the Kapilina Hawaii fire troop, thus the vids.
I am in Cambridge, and if you guys are looking for a quite basic training session I may be able to assist if it is within a reasonable distance close to Cambridge. I moved over here from Boston, Massachusetts, USA, where we have a quite active and diverse community, about two-three months ago, and I have been craving some hooping since. I brought with me a substantial amount of tubing, and about 12 pre-assembled hoops, so I could even bring hoops to any workshop.
I only check tribe occasionally these days, so please be patient if you send me a message. Alternately, you can email me at duncan.odom a t gmai l. com (remove obvious spaces).
and PLEASE email me if you are in the cambridge area--I would REALLY like to help nucleate a community here!
Happy hooping!
Duncan

Spose i'd best announce myself here !

I'm an oldie from Bedfordhsire but have lots of energy and patience to learn.

I got my first hoop last friday, 19th January, from Sharna and I have hoopgirls dvd from John hopefully arriving tomorrow. I did a vid on youtube just so I can see my progress. (toulouz is my nic)

Already I have friends wanting hoops and would like some dif weights myself so I have found some good priced MDPE 25mm tube X 50m @ £18.99 from Screwfix. Its the blue water pipe, is this ok? Cant find any straight male couplers .. would appreciate a source for these?

Well I'll be lurking, watching and learning and of course practising out in the freezing cold weather now, daily. None of my rooms are free enough to do it indoors!

Talk to ya again soon .. I am sure to have lots of probs along the way !! And this group looks the best place to be .. Alan

Hey there all you lovely people, I'm in Bournemouth, where there is a small but growing community. 4of us get together every week for a sesh but there are more people who have hoops and appear at local events and festivals, I'm making hoops and have sold a few, and given a few for Christmas! We were doing a weekly spot at a bar but we're now looking at getting sponcered to do workshops on the beach through summer and also doing some festivals (including "The Fire Festival" if anyone has a fire hoop?) But yeah hooping is very much on the up! About to order an L.E.D. one too... very exciting! x

I'm from Wales but curently studying in Kingston London (Surrey). usually perform with a circus but now gotta make do with my halls of residence.

I am lurking about in SOMERSET, please please let me find someone else near me, need to organise some serious hooping events!!!!!! Dont forget Hoop Day 07/07/07

Hello everyone! I've just started hooping a couple of weeks ago at the British Juggling Convention, and I really enjoy it (though i can't do much yet) I'm in Leeds at the moment, being a student, and will be back living In Aylesbury in about three weeks time. If there's anyone around either of those areas, I'd love to learn some new tricks, have a (admittedly, rather limited) hoopjam, join an existing club, whatever.

Just thought I'd add my 2p. I'm in Nottingham and I've been hooping for about 2 months now me thinks. I'm still learning but absolutely loving it and wouldn't mind meeting up with people in Notts to share tricks and have fun. :)

I'm up in Scotland...miles away from all of you! Glasgow hooper :)