I'm glad you bring that up....I think Richmond does need two hoop tribes.

Here's the reason Joe and I decided to keep the tribes both active and separate....

Joes has spent the past two years working with Citizens Against Crime, the Boys and Girls Club and others to provide community awareness by using the hoop to bring people together. The primary focus of Richmond Hoopers will always be around charitable and volunteer efforts. RVA Hoop Lovers and the MeetUp group I started, will hopefully feed more ideas and volunteers into Richmond Hoopers.

RVA HOop LOvers is more focused on the individual Hooper. The Hooper that wants to improve hoop skills, needs help from other experienced hoopers, wants to meet up and share flight time, etc.... We might even take a road trip from time to time to meet up with other hoop groups...RVA HOop LOves is more for the performer. It's new and it's open for all sorts of creative ideas for advancing hoop skills.

The separation is clear to me today....but who's to say it might not change tomorrow. At this time, my goal is to build a community of hoopers that just want to be involved in "something"..... the overlap is good, but the separation is necessary for now.

Hope that clears things up for anyone that's been wondering about WHY.....

I'll try to do a better job of making things more clear going forward.

Thanks for bringing this up, Danny.