Day 239 - Never Bored

Remember when I was bored?  Well, I am happy to say that I am no longer bored!

I think I was in a bit of a hooping rut.  Ruts happen, whether it is in hooping or in life.  The trick is to remember that it is just a phase.

Every since returning from In Flow I have felt like I have so much new and exciting material to work on, so I never feel bored!  If I get tired of working on one thing, I move to something else.  Sometimes I'll start to feel myself getting bored, and then I'll remember something we learned in one of the workshops and go "Oh Yeah!", and will get lost in it all over again.

Obviously I have been completely loving all the twin flow I've discovered and I've been working on that a lot too, but there has been so much more.  One thing in particular that I've really enjoyed practicing is the balance work I learned in Tessa's workshop.  I have to admit that while I absolutely loved Baxter's workshop in February, I hadn't been particularly inspired to work on balance.  I don't know what is different this time around, but I have really been enjoying it.  I've been trying to incorporate a little bit of balance into my practice for even just a few minutes every day, and you know what?  Tessa was right!  I'm already seeing improvement in just a few weeks!  It's starting to feel more natural to balance the hoop on the back of my hands now. 

I can also see how this type of practice is going to help with other aspects of my hooping as well.  I have been working on body rolls for awhile now, and while I have been getting them, I haven't felt like they've been as clean as they should be.  Now I think I have approaching it in an incomplete manner, and have been using momentum to fling the hoop across my chest/shoulders instead of using balance to guide it across.  Not that what I have been doing is completely wrong, I was just missing the balance portion of it.  I'm hoping to have some cleaner, more fluid body rolls on the go soon.

There are so many things I learned from the workshops that I have been incorporating into my everyday flow and practice.  I find that Tegan's style of moment jives so well with my own that I'm always using moves I learned from her in my dance.  I've also loved many of Beth's moves and flow, especially this break and reverse type of move that involves changing the direction/flow of the hoop behind the back while spiralling up and down.  It's hard to explain, but it's a really lovely movement that has been working really well for me.

I love that my hoop practice has been renewed, and that I'm feeling good about my dance again with all these refreshing new movements.  It's a good feeling.