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February, 2009:

North West Hoop Gathering

NORTHWEST HOOP GATHERING TICKETS ON SALE NOW!
Thank you Mollie and all the others who have contributed to making this amazing event happen. I’m honored to be participating in the first North West Hoop Gathering!
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SPIRAL-Spiral Hoop Dance
ANAH-Hoopalicious
BAXTER-Hoop Path
CHRISTABEL-HoopGirl
RICH-Isopop
PHILO-Hooping.org
KHAN
CANDICE-HoopShine
And many more special guests!

When:
April 10-12, 2009
Where: Bend, OR Location TBA
Where to stay: We’ve booked a block of rooms at the Phoenix Inn 541-317-9292 for $99 (20% discount). McMenamins Hotel (no package price) 541-330-8560. With friends or other hotels in the area.
How: Drive, walk or fly! (Just get here!) If flying, the Bend/Redmond airport is the easiest access, and isn’t much more expensive than PDX,or, Portland and carpool, shuttle or rent a car to Bend (three hours). Johnny from Green Energy Transportation is on call for all shuttle/taxi service within Central Oregon 541-610-6103.
Why: To grow our amazing hooping communty. To learn from and be inspired by the incredible talent that will be here (including you!). To create another regional Hooping event! To continue to move us into mastery.
Who: ANYONE who has been bitten by the hooping bug! From novice to expert! We all have somthing to learn from each other. If you’ve been in the industry for a while, you know how incredible this line up is. If you are new to hooping, this is an amazing opportunity to emerse yourself in hooping heaven.
Flow: is the theme of the weekend. You’ll get to know it intimately!
Cost: $195 (that’s about $10/hour…you can’t beat it!)

There will be an array of great things going on this weekend that are still in th the works! If you are a local hooper and want to house a fellow hooper from out of the area, please let me know.

To purchase your tickets, click here, or go to the hoopdazzle website. For more questions, contact mollie@hoopdazzle.com and put NWHG in the subject line! Hooray…this is going to be GOOD!

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1) Spare Connectors.
2) Digital Fish Scale. This is my favorite accessory. I like having hard data on my hoops, ie. 34″ I.D. 11 oz hoop. You can get a scale like this in any store that sells fishing supplies. I recommend the digital scales with accuracy to the oz. For hoop weighing purposes the cheap spring loaded scales don’t work nearly as well. This one cost about $30. Available on Amazon.com.
3) Bicycle lock. Lock your hoops to a bike rack outside so you don’t have to carry them up and down the canned foods aisle.
4) Tube cutters. Get some. Hacksaws are for hacks.
5) Mr. Zogg’s Sex Wax (Surf Board Wax), Tropical Water. Grant came up with the idea of waxing black sanded hoops. It works great. The hoops are super grippy, great for moves that require extra traction, like vertical duckouts. Plus it smells good.
6) 100 grit sand paper for sanding blank hoops. I also keep some other grits depending on the feel I’m looking for.
7) Large tool box with tape from Identitape.
8 ) Various tube sample from McMaster-Carr.

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