I can't hoop.

[GingerFreaker]

During lockdown last year, I bought a Hula hoop and I've just realised that's coming up to a year since I've had it and I still can't do more than 5 hoops🙊

I never mastered it as a child, so no idea why it should be any different now😁

Anyone else failing at the simple things in life??

Is it a weighted hoop? Weighted ones are much easier to keep up. Technique is important too - it's a forward and back motion not circular. There's YouTube videos I'm sure that will help

I couldn't hoop with a lightweight kids hoop but did master a larger weighted hoop

I bought one a couple of years ago but only started using it recently. My personal best is 10 continuous minutes! Takes a bit of practice tho but it does get easier. Definitely easier with a weighted one.

Never could 'hoop' even as a child. It just kept falling down.

I've seen a lot about weighted hoops, are they very effective? Particularly for a woman with a rapidly thickening waist line?

@dementedpixie I'm very good at watching the how to videos on YouTube. Sadly, it just doesn't transfer to real life😁

Is it a weighted hoop you have?
I would find it impossible if it wasn't weighted. The one I have is 5lb in weight.

Funny enough I couldn’t do it as a child but my daughter when she was a teenager took it up and I started doing it and found it much easier.

But I cannot roller skate or ice skate despite my mother being an excellent ice skater in her younger years.

Hula hooping is on my list of 'stuff everyone else did as a child but I couldn't do at all'. Sounds like I need a weighted hoop!

Also on my list are hand stands, cartwheels, monkey bars and french plaits. If you see 'larger lady' of a certain age flailing about in the park trying to do any of this it will be me!

I could never do the hula hoop, or cartwheels 😑

I could never hula hoop or do cartwheels or monkey bars. I’m guessing no core/arm strength?! I’m petite and am good at skating/ice skating tho.

I can't roller or ice skate. The latter was despite going to Bristol ice rink many times during my teens to eye up the boys .
I also cannot ride a bike and let go of the handlebars, or pull the front wheel off the ground and cycle along on the back wheel .
I obviously failed at childhood.