You Spin Me Right Round...Like a Record Baby!

All of this hooping definitely has me feeling like a record lately...but it's sooooo fun!  I decided to be brave & make an impromptu visit to a hooping workshop on Saturday afternoon...a 3 hour hooping workshop...yep, you heard right 3 HOURS OF HOOPING FUN! 

I've never seen so many hoops in my life :)

 

I was worried about several things, but decided not to let fear hold me back any longer...

I was worried I would be the "curviest" person there...I was.
I was worried I would drop my hoop more than anyone else...I did.
I was worried I would not be able to last for the entire class...in fact, I was the last one to leave & never sat down once!
I was worried I would make a complete fool of myself...if I did, everyone else did too so there you go!
I was worried I would not be able to catch on as quickly as everyone else...this was true for waist hooping, but I definitely better when we practiced hand hooping...woohoo!
I was worried I would leave feeling discouraged & be afraid to continue in my hooping journey...definitely the contrary...I'm more excited than ever!

Let it be said that I have the best hooping instructor ever!  Rebecca DeShon of HoopEssence is fantastic, super nice, uber talented & a bundle of artist energy!  She took some time after the workshop to chat with me & told me I was doing everything right & to keep practicing, but to get a larger hoop - as was my suspicion.  So, I ordered a new hoop - only this time I got a travel hoop so I can break it apart and/or take out a section when I progress a little.

I got to pick up my new hoop yesterday evening & could not wait to try it out, so with my friend watching, I began.  Now, previously I had only managed about 12-15 rotations before the hoop fell, but yesterday was a benchmark...49 rotations!!!  I literally jumped up & down!

Isn't she a beauty?!?!?

 

Nighty-night from one happy hooping chica!

Awesome

Sometimes I hear a song & can't seem to get it off my mind...as in, I wake up singing it, listen to it 500 times a day, go to bed singing it, rinse & repeat...you get the idea.  On the way home from church yesterday, I caught the tail end of this song (which I have heard before) and for some reason, I can't get it out of my head!  If you're gonna have something rolling around in your head all day, it might as well be MY GOD IS AWESOME!

 

 

The last time this happend to me was back in March; our choir sang a song at church the day I left for a managers conference & I ended up singing this for an entire week.

 

 

Here's hoping you get one good uplifting tune stuck in your pretty little head :)

Celebrate Success

Celebrate success! No matter how small the improvement, celebration is key :)

My small success is that I just managed to hoop 12-15 times in a row!  While this may not seem like much, I've not really been able to hoop more than 4-5 times in a row for weeks now, so to me, this is huge success!!!

Practice, practice, practice!  Here's another fun tutorial about waist hooping:

 

Happy Hooping!