how to hula hoop on waist?
Hey Future Hooper!
You want to learn hula hooping around your waist? That’s great, you’re in the right place!
As a first step I encourage you to watch the video, tutorial for waist hooping. If however you prefer reading about this, than jump to the part below the video.
What is the mystery of all hoop spins? Despite the very common misconception about hula hoop combined with circular movements, the facts are slightly different. Each & every circular motion of the hula hoop around our body – spinning around the waist, arm, hips, or any other part of our body, will be based on PULSATION.
In the specific case of waist hooping, it will be going in a horizontal plane front & back with your belly button, producing at the same time a decided push of the hoop.
The tutorial video is divided in three elements:
- Choosing the right hula hoop for learning waist hooping.
- Positioning your body correctly.
- Technique.
Now let’s take a closer look at each one of them. How to choose the right hula hoop? Watch the full video below, or read THIS article to get the big picture, but simply speaking you will need an adult size hula hoop for beginners.
Part 2 – your position. It is a highly important element of the technique, as wrong posture while learning waist hooping might be a cause of a lot of frustration, while the hoop will be dropping down.
- You want to stand up straight & tall, uplifted position. Straight long back.
- Head in a neutral position, looking forward NOT DOWN!!!
- Pelvis is slightly rotated down, to the front.
- Feet on the width of your hips, or one foot to the front, so that you feel balanced & steady.
- NO protruding bum – rotate the pelvis down.
- NO bending front.
- DON’T shake your hips.
Technique:
- place the hoop on-body, supporting it on your lower back,
- give it a nice flat, horizontal push towards your belly button, in the intuitive direction,
- from the first meeting of your hoop & belly, you will be pushing it forward, every time it touches your belly.
Waist hooping is about finding the rythm in this pulsation. Connecting your body, with the motion of the hoop. It takes time to feel it, find your way, your pace, so don’t get frustrated with the first failures – there might be a lot of them. If you encounter a wall, feel that you don’t know what you’re doing wrong that it keeps on dropping down, than reach out for support. I am here to help you achieve it.
What can go wrong? & how to solve this possible troubles. Here are few hints for the beginning:
- mostly common issue in the beginning is that by first attempts in waist hooping you might be moving & pushing the hoop TOO SLOW, or TOO LIGHTLY. Try to make an exercise to go as fast & as strong as possible & than normalize the pace.
- check in with the size of your hoop – maybe it is simply to small & at this moment you will not be able to achieve this speed, to maintain it in motion. Don’t be afraid, or ashamed to use a giant hoop for the beginning. The size of your first hula hoop doesn’t classify you as a better or worse hula hooper. You are entering a totally new activity, something your body doesn’t know – give it your support.
- focus on the first push – it is very important. If you go in diagonal with this movement, than you will direct the hoop straight to the floor.
- check again your position. Read my hints about it from above & go through the checklist again.
If you are still having doubts about what’s going on, why the hoop keeps falling feel free to contact me or write a comment below, I’ll be happy to help.
Kafri
fot. Roland Okoń
video: Milena Lupa
