This workshop lays down the foundation of what is often called “circus hooping”. What is circus hooping? Well…while I find the label generally-speaking to be (pun totally not intended!) a circular definition, since what people call “circus hooping” is often called that simply because it’s the kinda hula hooping that you see in circus shows…right now it’s my FAVORITE kinda hooping! And I think that’s because it’s the type of hula hooping where one day you wake up and come to the mindblowing epiphany that, “This, along with all the other crazy hobbies you have…is all just combo juggling!”
To begin this workshop, I will make the possibly controversial case–while doing much needed stretching to warm up for this workshop–that circus hooping in a nutshell is just a fancy phrase for “onbody hooping on steroids!”…or more specifically “onbody multihooping”, and next make the aforementioned more likely controversial case that circus hooping ends up being a subset of combo juggling.
Unlike similar circus/multihooping workshops, this one is less focused on teaching anyone a particular kind of hoop split (such as the box split) or advanced trick and more focused on teaching the general drilling process that circus hoopers use to progress to more advanced hoop splits. With that being said, this general drilling process can be extended to combo juggling, so our exploration in circus hooping in this workshop will naturally extend into an exploration on the natural combo juggling from circus hooping that ensues!