Dwiizie
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I sent you a message sarichmond. And @Sinnamon my doc is now certified to do some form of acupuncture. I've forgotten what they call it. Getting some money to do that soon lol, its on my list. The tailbone and back pain is gone, I actually sit up straight now, I'm getting core strength like apples from doing backbends on the balance ball, tagging the ground, and doing a full sit up. Gets those lower abs that can be hard to target off-pole. My headaches are a thing of the past, I haven't needed excedrine since the first month of me visiting. Its awesome. I can't wait for October to come around so I can put enough in my flex spending to get a visit plan for my husband too. Life is goood 🙂
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I have a pole up in my apartment. There is a little smushing of the drywall in a circle, but oh well, they probably won't notice there are so many sags in the ceiling. You can tell where the beams and nails are lol. I plan to put a fresh coat of paint to cover my hoop scuffs and if I leave any dents, I'll caulk them over. Cheap, easy, and the place I'm renting from is so cheap and stingey, they probably won't notice in the least. I HAVE heard of people putting wood up to keep from making marks on the ceiling, but I'd imagine you'd have to secure the wood to the ceiling or else the wood/fabric could slide. Good luck!
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Recently I showed my little brother my recreation room for the first time. "Sweet! Bus seats, accordions…got your record player, and… uh… a stripper pole….riiiight" One of his friends when he was much younger was there. It was SO ackward. Remembering them playing around when they were like 7 years old, and having the friend tell me now 22 yrs old "You're looking goood as a mo'fo by the way" Thanks honorary little brother lol.
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Why not put the baby stuff in the guest room? Do you have guests planned or just decorating? Is it the baby's future room anyway? Even if you do have guests come, couldn't you stash the baby stuff in your own bedroom when you have visitors? Hope you find a good solution. The front door could be interesting. I agree with the garage. Spiders and temperature changes alone would make me steer clear of a garage.
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I remember my mom had some tweezers that were supposed to shock and kill follicles when you plucked a hair. It didn't work very well if at all. And legs would take forever, a pluck at a time. I don't know these brands or how they work, but if its similar, I'd say pass.
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Not what you're looking for, but this is pretty cool: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4321014304_7360211b69.jpg
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I've hunted for anything matching this description. A few of us hoopers were talking about going in on a Cyr wheel together, so I've REALLY been researching these and similar circus things. I can't find a thing! I can only imagine it's something the person custome made for themselves or had manufactured for them specifically if its not something that you come across when looking all over. I sure would like to know, it sounds awesome. Maybe you can start designing one yourself?
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@ DedeJoy I just turned 26. I've been stretching regularly since december of 2009, and actual flexibility training (both splits, back, side, arms, all of it, but first focused on splits) for 1 year and 5 months. I actually looked back on a forum post I made on another site when I started the flexibility journey. I'm still about 8 inches off my center splits. I'm about an inch off on squared front splits, easier right leg forward, and if really warm and really stretched I can get the full split on both sides, but its like one day out of a month. I'm pretty sure hip flexors are the issue with front splits, so I've been paying extra attention to stretching those. For the center split, I'm not sure. Before I went to a chiro, I used to have horrible pain in my right hip when stretching. Now I don't. I've been mainly working on sitting on the ground and straight backedly leaning forward, while trying to creep my heels just a little further back each day.
Before I started stretching, I could barely touch my toes, and my center split was the top of a plie lol. I was never a flexible or athletic child, was never interested in it. I remember trying to do center splits in 2nd grade and a cheerleader friend of mind jumped on my back to try and make it happen. I was about a foot off the ground at that point lol. I started out, when trying to touch my toes to the back of my head, about 2 feet off the mark. Back flexibility is my biggest problem. As of last night, I'm about a foot off. So I KNOW I'm improving and getting better. I thought I could NEVER EVER do a split, and I have. Its taking for freakin' ever, but I'm getting there. I, personally, don't stretch into pain. I do allow discomfort, as is natural, but pain for stretching? Nooooo, not for me. So thats the story of a mid 20's learning flexibility who was not at all bendy/athletic/whatever as a child or teen 🙂
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Thats weird….. Maybe try hoopdance or Safire or love or something? I can't remember what I did when I signed up (it was a loong time ago). Yeah, I don't even know if my myspace still exists, I just throw it out there anyway. I heard they deleted everyone who isn't a musician page, but I never looked to see. I have a musician page anyway though (I sing too hehe)
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I should really read before I hit reply lol. I meant, seems there is more drama on hoopcity (IMO), and less repetitive questions on hooping.org. hooping.org also does a lot of articles on hooping, where people are making news, updates on native american hoop dance, articles on hooping in relation to learning, weight loss, brain function, healing, meditation, etc. I dig that its an info hub.
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Yeah, its .ca. I like both sites. hoop city is kind of like Veena, Saffire offers lessons, theres chat, music, forums. Hooping.org is more like a hooping newspaper, photos and videos of the day, forums to specific topics, but not the standard format chat thread. If I ever need to reach a bunch of people or ask a big topic, I usually go to hoopcity, but for daily life, I'm on hooping.org (seems there is less drama there, and more questions asked over and over again. For example, there is a great thread in Beginner Central forum for shoulder hooping, and the mods put the threads mostly together so you don't have to look for 20 different threads.) My screen name Dwiizie everywhere lol, you can find me and friend me, I'm on youtube, Facebook, Myspace, they're all me 🙂
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Does anyone ever use/spray grip aides on clothes? I don’t own any aides, just curious about the whole thing. LOL@ magic jeans 🙂
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And yeah, Caroleeena is definitely awesome. I've not gotten a chance to meet her, but we've spoken online enough times. I recently did a workshop with Brecken. THAT was a fun weekend! I love that Caroleena loves the dance, its not always all about the tricks (though she can throw you some good ones!)
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It made sense to me too, then I was hooping on my lunch break and realized I had said it opposite. It sounds very weird when typed because you're going backwards when it feels like you should be going forwards. I actually played a lot with it today because of this thread. I've found, I can actually make my upper torso stiff as a pencil, and bounce back and forth from leg to leg, creating enough side to side to get that "BEAT" from side to side. No shrugging, no "cat cow-like" movement. Its literally using legs to power the hoop, and the power is so strong, that even the boxiness of the shoulders can't fight it.
I also found that if I hunch up a little, I can use my "shrug" method to hoop anywhere on my arms from shoulder to forearm.
I also discovered that the BACK push on the shoulder shrug carries more power. I naturally hoop to the left. I swirl the hoop around and actually move my RIGHT shoulder back as the hoop comes around, and the left shoulder front (which, again, seems to be AGAINST the rotation of the hoop, but its where the magic is)
I even played around and found that I can shoulder hoop (to the left) focusing almost exclusively on throwing my right shoulder back and letting the left arm/rest of torso go slack. It doesn't have the same effect trying to throw my left shoulder forward.
In second current (to the right, the other way, whatever lol) its all about throwing my left shoulder back, but the mobility on my left is very muted compared to the right (as I am right handed) Its such an interesting move. I remember one of my first ever hooping videos with me trying soooo hard to get the hoop to chest level. I actually yelled at the hoop "Come oooonnnn!!!" lol.
I do moderate the daily practice forum on hooping.org and I've seen waves of beginners, and they all eventually get it, so I truly have faith that anyone determined to do it can.
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I just realized, the bit of info I gave about the shoulder shrug, thats if you hoop to the RIGHT lol. Reverse that if you're a left hooper.
I also didn't answer about Hoopnotica. I love hooping because of the freedom of expression. Nothing is "the wrong way" or "the right way" its however you want, it suits you. Hoopnotica is very much "This is how you do this, and that is how you do that" and that just doesn't suit my learning style (though some LOVE it)
Its very much a "find what you like" sort of thing 🙂