Waist hooping can be quite meditative with a slower hoop, allowing you to relax into a routine and enjoy simpler moves while focusing on strengthening your core and keeping the hoop in place. Larger, heavier hoops are also wonderful for exercise, as the added weight of the hoop engages your core during waist hooping. Larger hoops also tend to weigh more than smaller hoops and the extra weight gives the hoop more momentum as it travels around you, which is another element helps your hoop to stay up. Once you have mastered the basics of waist hooping or another trick, it’s common to want to size down from there so you can practice the same moves with a smaller, lighter hoop. Taped Beginner hoops come in a lovely, hand-picked variety of our favorite tapes, and also can be easily customized! If there’s a decorative tape we have in our Hoop Tape section of the store, we can tape a custom Beginner hoop for you 😀 Large hoops are great for beginners and for practicing new moves, especially on-body moves, as large hoops spin around your body slower. The slower movement from a larger hoop also gives more time to react to where the hoop is while executing a move or trick. The extra room inside of a larger hoop lets you move a little slower as the hoop is spinning around you, giving you more time to feel where the hoop is making contact on your body. If you are an absolute hoop beginner ( welcome!), or like to dance slowly, you may want to start with our (large) 38 inch or (extra large) 42 inch hoop size. If you’re at all unsure about whether you want the extra worry of cracking your hoop polypro hoop, HDPE is definitely the better choice, especially for the more flexible 5/8 tubing. With polypro LED hoops, certain moves like breaks, reversals, or even regular hooping can cause the tubing to crack.Īlso, some sort of trauma to the hoop, like a high impact hit or landing on it accidentally when trying to jump through it, is what can result in the hoop tubing becoming cracked. Polypro is extra susceptible to cracking in cold temperatures. The added weight of LEDs, batteries, and electronic only increases the chance of the tubing cracking. However, polypro tubing is more brittle in comparison, and prone to cracking on impacts or when extremely flexed.

Polypro tubing is stiffer, giving it a different kind of feedback during hoop play. HDPE tubing is naturally a more flexible material and absorbs impacts well. Since LED hoops have batteries and weighted internals, the lightness of polypro is not as noticeable from an HDPE LED hoop made in the same size. Lines are more crisp from the clearer tubing,īut material is more prone to cracking on impacts & cold weather. (stiffer with a bounce, transparent/clear tubing)

(more durable material, milky-white diffused tubing) HDPE tubing is recommended as the default option for LED hoops.

34 inch circle actual size