This video demonstrates some cool new advancements in hoopdance techniques. Many who have taken one of Baxter’s classes will recognize this as a development on his point meditation exercises. Bax nails some incredible moves in this video, in particular check out 1:30 – 1:50. Most of the development in this video shows contact stalls, in the vein of sustained stalls, very meditative slow motions.
I’ve been playing with some “Touch Technique” taking inspiration from contact staff. I’ve been calling it contact hooping. Essentially I’m playing with off-body hooping without ever gripping the hoop, which is exactly what a lot of Bax’s video demonstrates. I have been focused exclusively on dynamic moves rather than stalls. Bax’s video demonstrates a whole new direction to take it.
If you haven’t witnessed MCP, check out the video below. If you look up “contact staff” on google, her website is the first thing you find and for good reason. I’d recommend checking out her website too http://mcp.tepookatoys.com/. I would love to see a technical hoop move website like MCP’s (Silverstar?, where ya at?)
