Topic(s): Arts
Tags: "hula-hoops" hooping excercise+hoops
Hula-hooping has re-emerged as a fun fitness trend for all ages. Learn to make your very own fancy, weighted hoop that’s bigger and better than store-bought hula hoops.
Web site: http://www.laurascarborough.com/hooping/hoopinfo
Jake Lenahan
Master of many trades including hooping and hoop craftsmanship.
Laura Scarborough
Laura Scarborough is a local Austin musician / piano teacher who has been “hooping” and constructing hoops for over two years. What is hooping? It’s a term for hula hooping with larger, weighted, customized hoops. Unlike the smaller mass-market hoops, the larger hoops rotate slower around the body making it easier for the user to keep up. Regardless of size, height, age, weight, or sense of rhythm, most everyone can master it.
Laura's first hoop was loaned to her by a friend, and she quickly fell in love with the movement. Everyday she improved, learned new tricks, and in the process lost 15 pounds in the first 4 months. She started making her own hoops of various sizes, weights, tubing diameters, decorative tapes, and styles. Through her hoop making experimentation, she's found the combinations that work best.
Laura would take the large hoops out to events, parks, and friends houses - finding that children and adults alike would light up with smiles in discovering that they could successfully hula-hoop. Early this year she was in Berlin teaching east German ladies 65-80 years old hooping. They all mastered it.
She’s incorporated hooping into her music performances and has written inspired songs including "Circle" and "Who-La-Hoop." Both of which have a corresponding video.
She writes, “It changed my life. I've become more fit, agile, strong, flexible, and confident. It's meditative, empowering, fun – plus it gives you an incredible massage! I want to continue promoting ‘hooping’ to young and old.”
www.austinhooping.com