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youtube.com/watch

This video isn't the best in the world, but it gives you the basic idea of the rotation on the ball of the foot.

The way I leg and knee hoop is a bit different... I kind of shift my weight from foot to foot on the balls of my feet as though I were taking little half steps in place.
To bring the hoop back up, I shift from foot to foot a little bit faster, turn with the hoop and bump it up with my alternating legs.
I'll post a video when I get home from work tonight, maybe it'll help.

Hello Carrin,

I've got a knee hooping tutorial done: safiredance.blogspot.com/2008/...s.html

Hope it helps,
~ SaFire ~

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Just like in regular (non-barrel roll) shoulder hooping, you want to keep the hoop at the same place as the hoop rotates around your shoulders, chest, and back. Really think about keeping the hoop on the same plane. Imagine your body is a column and you want the hoop to stay at the same spot as it rotates. Right now the hoop is going up and down on the column as you barrel roll.

You need to concentrate on your pushes as you barrel roll. The hoop slips up when your front push is not hard enough. The hoop slips down when your back push is not hard enough. Also make sure to use your shoulders. If you feel the hoop slipping up towards your face, shrug your shoulder up to catch the hoop and bring it back down to shoulder level. If you feel the hoop slipping down your back, shrug your shoulder to bring the hoop back up to shoulder level. When you are facing downward, as you flip up make sure to make a half circle with your shoulder passing the hoop from front out to the side and then to the back (shrugging if you need to get the hoop lower and away from your poor bloody lip!). When you are facing up and flipping down, use your other shoulder, making a half circle from back to the side to the front.

I breezed thru most of Hoopnotica DVD 1 for beginners. Rayna's program is awesome and the troubleshooting parts were alot of help. I got the basics down except for the "floating" bit. I just can't get it. Any suggestions or other tutorials would be great. So, my lovely hoopers, I turn to you and beg for guidance. Thanks, as always, for your help, love, support, encouragement and generously sharing your knowledge and time. Wurd.

yes Meer, I want this one too...just didn't know how to explain it!

I think I understand what trick you are describing (Annie dubbed this the butterfly) - is it the trick done here at :20?
youtube.com/watch

If so, Xta has an excellent tutorial of this move on her website, which is how I learned this trick!
www.christagiles.com/video/x...ping.mov

If the direct link doesn't work, go to <christahoops.com/5.html> and then click on the first link (2005 hooping.org submission).

What helped me most when I was working on this trick was remembering which hand the hoop had to be in and when to pass it. If you start off hooping clockwise, the hoop will go in front of your body in the right hand, in front of your body with the left hand, behind your head with the left hand, behind your head with your right hand, and then back to the front with your right hand.

I second that request.