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Top is my left hand. Bottom is my right. I am right handed. Usually, hooping shows me how I was supposed to be left-handed because some things feel better on that side. Here I can tell how my hand / arm pain on my right side affects the movement.

It's interesting to me to see the side-by-side of each hand release to see the slight changes and how consistent I am.

If you watch a set long enough they start syncing up!

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That thing where you think you're in the correct position and then you watch your video and see how badly positioned you are.

I need to bend forward more and create a straight line with my arms.

Still tired and sore, so I can't be too hard on myself

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Around the world in a barrel roll isolation. This is part of a combo.

I'm exhausted. Monday was arm day. Today was legs. I'm feeling exhausted. My arms did not want to work.

I think in order to survive and enjoy hooping classes, early morning strength training needs to pause next week.

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This is part of the single hoop combo we learned this week. I'm supposed to be catching it on my elbow, but I don't have it quite yet. That's why I'm pulling ito over my head.

While I like elbow things in general, I haven't been crazy about these past two lessons because I don't have nice long arms. I'll eventually figure it out but it's not been a graceful thing at all in class. I feel so clunky

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My everything hurts but it was a great 4 hours!

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Emma had us warm up to a partially choreographed Gangnam Style. For me it was 7:45 am. It's evening for her and afternoon for the UK folks.

I sped it up a little. Here's some awkwardness.

Cyber SWHoop con is back!

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In hooping news... Apparently I'm part of the crazy advanced twins group that meets on Wed nights. Last night was our last class for 3 weeks and it was last night that I realized that one of the ladies in the class is the Salsa Hoop lady!

Anyway, I feel weird that I'm in that group but I have been picking up things pretty easily. Emma has decided that the next 6 weeks will be for us crazy folks and she might also do a foundations twins hoop block, too

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Today's class was elbow escalators. Tricky for me because I have T-Rex arms.

This is my current fave escalator drill where I send it up and then do a wrap-around reverse escalator down. It's a corkscrew up and then back down around your body type of motion.

We learned different elbow related tricks for escalators. The ones shown in the video involve catching the hoop on your elbow, letting it spin once and then sending it back down. The other one I do once at the end is trying to catch it with my elbow.

The one Emma liked was a mistake!

But yeah, I'm exhausted. There were other things we did that are not shown.

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My darling girl passed in January. I'm still very sad about it

It's the Gigabyte and Marilyn show 😸

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Emma is starting up hoop classes next week but I'm not going to be able to do them, which I'm fine with. I don't even have FOMO about it

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My favorite bit from Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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Hoop workshops this morning. Gigabyte visited for a bit. She was not pleased.

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I can't waist-hoop tonight. Can't bounce to straighten out the hoop on my elbow. Jaw hurts when I do either of those. But this was ok.

Amy cracks me up. The backwards pass she's talking about is a shit show is when the hoop is spinning backwards. When my face is facing the left side of the screen I'm spinning backwards. It is tricky.

My arms are short and my boobs are an additional challenge so I'm surprised I did these with not a lot of warm up

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I offered to go to the UK time class today because I'm the only student in the Wed 8pm class because it didn't make sense to me for Emma to wake up early on Thursday Bali time to teach me. That meant a 5 am wake-up call for me.

I enjoyed seeing other folks in class but I really felt super clumsy. Not enough sleep!

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Amy, my Canadian hoop instructor, had us doing different waist hooping drills last night. Walking while hooping was one of them.

In the GIF on the left, I'm hooping in my dominant direction (to the right / clockwise). You can tell I can move forwards and backwards without having to "catch " the hoop. In the other GIF, I'm hooping in my non dominant direction (this is most folk's dominant/to the left/ counter clockwise). I have to do an extra waist hooping rotation to make sure I have control before attempting to walk backwards.

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From Wednesday night's twins class. My arms are still killing me