I didnt know that hoop bootcamp was on, so I missed the beginning of it, but by luck or good fortune I have hooped every day so far in August. Ive really enjoyed all the stuff that Deanne has been putting together, found it so motivating! And I’ve realised that, wow, looking at my hands makes a BIG difference to how well I am able to do what I want with the hoop. There is this one particular trick im trying to do, kind of an extension of a pass float where instead of placing it on the waist, you keep going down, pass to your other hand and raise it up the body again without it touching the body either going up or down. I cant find a name for it, or a tutorial on the hoop dance tricks list. Safire does it on that awesome clip... She’s looking at her hands too when she does it! How did I not notice it before??? Looking at my hands means that I no longer whack myself in the back of the head or the ear when I bring the hoop up. It also means that I’m less likely to drop the hoop. Der.

It seems so simple but this is one of those lessons I have to learn over and over:  If I look at what I’m doing when I do it, it all works better.