Beginner Hoop Dance

If you're interested in my Beginner Hoop Dance class, here is the full course description, week by week.

Beginner Hoop Dance

Instructor: Katie Wilson

Description: Learn to hoop dance, meet new people, and get fit! Hoop dancing is a fun way to get moving and challenge yourself. This course will teach you the basics of hoop dance including how to hula hoop, walking and turning with your hoop, off-body moves, beginner level tricks, and so much more. No previous hooping experience is required. All hoops are provided.

Objectives:

The students will...

* Understand the benefits of hoop dancing as an exercise, meditation and art form

* Learn to keep a hula hoop going around the waist for over 30 seconds

* Learn to walk and move around a space with a hoop

* Learn transitional moves to place a hoop on and off the body

* Develop short movement routines with a hoop

* Demonstrate progress is using and performing with a hula hoop

Course Outline

Week 1- Introduction to Hoop Dance

Week 2- Moving and Turning

Week 3- Horizontal and Vertical Planes

Week 4- On-Body vs. Off-Body Hooping

Week 5 - Combos

Week 6- Prep for Intermediate Hoop Dance/ Additional Tricks

Week 1- Introduction to Hoop Dance

Topics covered will include the benefits of hooping as an exercise and tool for meditation. There will be an introduction to hoops, how they're made, what the different materials and sizes mean, and which one is right for each student. Students will have an opportunity to practice with different sizes and weights of hoops. Also, students will learn what to expect for each class, best clothing to wear for

hooping, and the instructor will address questions. Finally, students will practice hooping around the waist using a two-point push method until they are quite comfortable with their progress.

Week 2- Moving and Turning

This class will build upon the last practice of waist hooping and introduce moving, walking, and turning with the hoop. Hooping in opposite directions and redirecting the hoop will be addressed as well. If progress permits, breaks will be addressed as well.

Week 3- Horizontal and Vertical planes

This class will introduce the hoop in different perspective: in the vertical plane. Students will learn how to move the hoop on hands and arms in the vertical plane as well as weaves and other off-body tricks. If progress permit, transition from the vertical plane to the horizontal plane will be addressed.

Week 4- On-Body vs. Off-Body hooping

This class will introduce more tricks on the body and off the body as well as how to transition between the two. New tricks introduced in this class will include knee hooping, chest hooping, coin flips, spins, and tosses. Time permitting, routines or "combos" will be demonstrated and practiced.

Week 5- Combos

This class will focus on taking all the previous tricks and transitions learned and combine them into a hoop dance routine. Time will permit to practice the routine. Tips will be addressed for creating ones own personal routine. If progress permits, a couple more intermediate level tricks may be introduced.