Hooping Tutorials

In Person Tutorials

For information on local Hula Hoop Classes and private lessons in the Red Deer area, please visit Services.

Exercise Tutorials

If you are more interested in using your hula hoop for exercise purposes and are looking for videos of actual exercise routines with a hula hoop, please visit our section on Hula Hoops for Exercises.

Online Tutorials

This page is a work in progress.  It is a library of various hula hooping tricks to be used as a reference while you are teaching yourself moves at home.  If you know of others that have been useful to you, please let me know.  =)  All of the videos are found on youtube or vimeo.  Make sure to sign up for a youtube account and add these great hoopers to your favourites and subscribe to them so you can receive their latest videos.

Also, please let me know if you use a different name or terminology for a move.  That will help others locate the hula hoop tutorials they are looking for.

For Multiple Hooping moves or Mini Hoop Tutorials skip down to the bottom of this page.

Across the Back Roll
Across the Chest Roll
Ankle Hooping
Back Isolation
Behind the Back Vertical Hooping
Behind the Back Pass
Breaks
Cat Eyes
Chest Hooping
Chest Reversals
Duck in and Drop On
Elbow Attack
Escalator
Foot Pass
Hand Hooping
Helicopter
Horizontal Elbow Pass (Bunny Ears)
Horizontal Jump Through
Hula Hoop Dancing (Improvements to Dance and Flow)
Illusion Hula Hoop Trick
Isolations
Isopops
Jump Through
Knee Hooping
Knee to Waist Hooping
Leg Hooping
Neck Hooping
One Leg Hooping
One Shoulder Hooping
Pizza Toss
Reversals
Scorpion
Shimmy
Shoulder Duck in and Duck Out
Shoulder Hooping
Shoulder Pop
Stalls
Surface Switching
Sustained Spinning
Tornado
Tuck Toss
Vertical Back Roll
Vertical Barrel Roll
Vertical Chest Hooping
Vertical Shoulder Duck Out
Vertical Step Through
Vortex
Waist Lifts
Waist to Neck
Walking While Hooping
Weave

Multiple and Mini Hooping Tutorials

Five Beat Weave
Thread the Needle
Three Beat Weave
Twin Elbow Pass