With the weather being so enticing we have been spending late afternoons out in the backyard - our Preschooler gets really involved in her role playing, today it was making chocolate - aka mud - smoothies and our Toddler limps around with his wagon (still with a toddler fracture) and me working in the garden.
The hula hoops hang at the ready on the back porch and I have found them to be a very fun way to break up the tedious back breaking work of weeding on my hands and knees.
I can not remember learning how to hula hoop...so I performed a search for instructions that covered what I know about this skill. Why reinvent the wheel?
- Hold the hoop at the waist with one hand on either side of it.
- Position feet slightly wider than hip width apart.
- Move one foot a bit in front of the other.
- Move the hoop so that it is touching one hip.
- Spin the hoop and let go to set it spinning around the middle of the body.
- Shift weight from one foot to the other, making hips rock from side to side.
- Coordinate movements so that the hip bumps the hoop as it rotates.
- Persistence
Point number 8 is my contribution. I must say that at this early stage of learning this skill, it almost seems an impossible task. But as I told my little one today...we are not born knowing how to do everything. We all have to learn how to do things...small steps first, and then a lot of practice.
The above is the basic method but the hoops can be rotated over the wrists, arms, legs, thighs, and shoulders. Once the basic movement is mastered it is possible to move the hoop up and down the body without stopping the rotation.
"...try, have a go, try again, keep trying, don't stop trying, take a break and go back to it.."
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