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CAPs (Continuous Assembly Patterns)

This has totally blown my mind and opened up a bunch of new doors for me. Last week after the Temple of Poi Fire Expo, Bax, Ann, Lauren, Khan, Tuana and a I headed over to the Vulcan for an afterparty. It was a packed house with everyone spinning as always over there. [...]

Poppin all over the world…

This image show the top 500 cities that visited Isopop.com in March 2009. The diagram was generated using Google Analytic.

Bend a New Hula Mecca? One Can Only Hoop!

I’m just getting settled back in from a terrific weekend at the NorthWest Hoop Gathering. The event caught the attention of the local newspaper and yesterday we were on the cover of the local section of The Bulletin.
Hoopers learn how to spin a hoop with their hands during a diagrammatic hooping class taught by [...]

Antispin Flower Diagram

I made this (and yesterday’s) diagram for the NorthWest Hoop Gathering. I’m hoping to have an 8.5″x11″ layout to give everyone that will include all of the moves and exercises we work on. So if you are coming to FLOW, you’ll see these diagrams again. My hope is that with a brief [...]

Antispin Quadrant Diagram

Antispin can be done in a full antispin flower, or the flower can be broken into pieces. This diagram demonstrates an antispin quadrant in each direction. I often do this back and fourth as a drill. Also notice that as with many of the moves I focus on, the hoop roles over the [...]

Pop.. slide… pop

This is demonstration of what I call Pop -Slide – Pop.
I call a “pop” any motion where you are moving the hoop, then suddenly isolate your hand, allowing the hoops momentum to carry it in a full rotation. Does that make any sense? A “slide” is just a hoop shifting in a straight line without [...]