What's easy?

What's easy? I have often dismissed anything I could do well or what came to me easily. If I think it's easy, it's easy. But I need to stop this. I need to learn how to appreciate what I can do and accept that just because I feel something's easy, or something comes easily to me, doesn't mean it's easy.

Problem is, I focus a lot on what I can't do or what's hard for me.

Shoulder Hooping

This is coming along, not quite there yet. Thought I had an aha moment, if I keep my hands held together in front of my body, arms straight, can seem to keep it going longer, not indefinitely yet. Except I found that's not correct.

Then I showed my husband a cool trick, chest hooping, right arm in to shoulder hooping. He was impressed. It's harder to then get the left arm in, as well, but I did it once, kept it spinning about one or two times.

Now to work on shoulder hooping with more neutral arms. Don't want to learn the wrong way.

Knee hooping is still about a 50/50 hit or miss.

Title

It's been too damn cold to hoop outside, but I have been spending time here and there working on hip and chest hooping. Shoulder and vertical hooping still allude me. Every so often, the hoop will fall to my knees and SOMEtimes I can keep it going, other times not.

I'm also struggling for a cool title to this blog. I keep changing it. I'll leave it as edge and flow for now. I want something that captures everything from figure skating to derby to hooping. Figure skating is all about egdes and footwork. Derby is about skills and endurance and agility. Hooping is flow and off-body tricks.

I'm not so creative.

New Hoop!

Yay, it arrived last night. I let it gradually uncoil from the trip and snapped it together this morning. I did a simple hoop flow with it, working on smear variations and some basic waist hooping. I LOVE the color. And I do like this brand, Canyon Hoops. They make quality hoops with quality tape.

It's their Control Flex hoop, a 3/4 ID hoop, so a bit over an inch thick. It's 40" in diameter. And it weighs 20oz. With blue and sparkly violet grip tape. So pretty.....

My hoop collection

Now to incorporate more hoop flow sessions into my days and weeks. And master hip hooping and chest hooping and just generally fall in love with hooping again.

oops

oops. It's been ages since I've hooped. I'm still going to derby. Although I did skip last Thursday's practice. Boss came into town. I was expected to be in the office, an hour away, three days in a row. And by the third day, I just couldn't stick around uptown to head to practice. I came home. And crashed. I just live too far from anything to not be tired commuting every which way. It's why I no longer ice skate. I just live too far away.

The hoop thing, yea I'm a little ashamed. I've been trying to analyze why I've basically abandoned practice. That new hoop. I hate it. I hate that I bought it. I hate that it was such a cluster with color. Some of the tape is snagged, too. And especially because it's just too advanced a hoop for me. I never spent my birthday money from my mom, so a new hoop got purchased yesterday.

This one will be thicker, like the hoop I've been practicing with for a while. It's a control flex, 3/4" inside thickness. But this one is 40" in diameter. My previous hoop was 38". Again, I got ambitious. Ridiculous to think I was no longer a beginner. I'm a beginner.

Here's hoping my new hoop will re-energize me. I bought it from Canyon Hoops. I trust them. The last hoop I bought, with the cluster in color and snagged tape (she still hasn't sent me more tape like she promised she would), yea I won't buy from her again. Live and learn. Die and forget it all.