Emma UK Tour

Emma’s Current Touring Workshops

Spring 2012 Tour starts March 24th! Details to follow

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Current Hooping Mad Workshops – see individual city pages to see which workshops are running.

Taster sessions (for absolute beginners)

Starter classes (for absolute beginners)

General Workshops:

Tricks (1 hoop) – (1.5-3hr workshops)

Breaking Planes and Transitioning using Elbow Folds

Always find yourself hooping in the same planes? Rotating the hoop using elbow folds will add a whole new dimension to your hooping. A simple change of grip can completely change the way that you transition. You will leave the workshop playing with the two basic cradles that enable a multitude of horizontal and vertical folds. We’ll explore different ways to access the fold position, from both off body and on body and create new patterns in untangling. It’s an opportunity to develop your individual style: everyone tangles and untangles in different ways, so you’re guaranteed to uncover new, personalized combinations.

Expanding your Vertical Jump Repertoire and Grip variation

Do you prefer to keep both feet on the floor? This workshop will help you find the jumps that work for you! Working on the vertical plane you will learn all the jumps possible from a basic figure 8 start. You will then learn how to explore the use of different grips and body positions to find new ways of jumping.

Using Anti-spin and Body Rotation to Develop Hand Hooping Variety
(aka Flowers for Hoopers)

Is hand hooping a bit too uninvolved for you? By working with and understanding both normal and anti-spin you will learn the basic of flowers. This can turn normal hand hooping into a new realm of possibility if you have never experimented with them before. You will learn how to work with the different planes the hoop resides in with respect to body positions. By adding turning you will come away with a limitless trick catalogue to investigate.

Expanding your Horizontal Jump Repertoire and Plane Melting

Bored always doing the same jumps? Then come and get unstuck! This dynamic workshop will have you thinking up new variations on standard jumps and have you coming up with simple transitions that can dramatically change the overall look and feel of a move. Working in the horizontal plane you will learn how to do a number of basic jumps. Then by varying direction, hand position and plane melting you’ll learn to create different effects and transitions. Not only will your jumps look more interesting, this will also add transitions between moves and make your play more diverse.

Using your Feet!

In this workshop we will be focusing on all the many ways we can use our feet when hooping. While standing we will cover how to use the feet to throw, catch, roll, stall and pass. We’ll also cover floorwork, learning to spin the hoop on the foot including starting in multiple ways, passing between feet, throws to the foot, shoulder stands and moving around on the floor. As well as learning a ton of cool tricks you’ll go away with loads of ideas to play with!
Please note: They’ll be some two hoop variations to play with for those at a more advance level!

Fancy Tricks and Flourishes

It’s a separate skill to produce a ta-da! moment and this workshop is a mish mash collection of the fancy tricks that do just that! In this workshop we will cover a number of ‘crowd pleaser’ tricks including folds, rolls, throws and passes. We will also cover some quick and simple flourishes: Spins, twists and mini-throws that can add an added wow-factor to your hooping style! We will also cover ways of picking up the hoop from the floor that make it seem like you meant to drop it in the first place!

Everything elbows

Passes, throws, breaks, folds and duck ins are just a few of the moves that can be done from the elbows. In this workshop we will work on standard elbow passes, adding in some interesting variations including duck ins. We’ll investigate the huge range of breaks and folds you can do from the elbow, working with the standard vertical plane and moving into the horizontal. We’ll also explore the numerous ways to transition in and out of standard elbow movements so you can easily add your new tricks into your current flow.

Entries and Exits – Increasing Creativity using one trick

Uses the foot pass trick to show how to investigate a trick you know to find different sequences, movements and combinations. Looking at entries, exits, breaks, stalls, body movement from the same trick you will learn a load of new variations and gain the tools to break down any trick.

On – Off body transitions – limitless possibilities.

We will investigate on-body to off-body transitions utilising various grip variations.
This workshop enhances creativity and allows the attendees to break out of standard on:off body transitions and form their own repertoire. Learn a few simple rules to unlock limitless ways of moving off the body.

Line and Tunnel – Techniques to break out of single trick sequence

Moving freely to music without considering a sequence of tricks is the goal of many. To achieve this it is important to understand the two extremes. The learning of “tricks” in all their different variants is vital to teach your hands/body/feet how to move the hoop in different ways without awkwardness but focusing on each individual movement as a unit or a “trick” can limit the way in which you move.
This workshop will aim to breakdown the idea of individual tricks and focus more on hoop movement around and between two spherical networks, called here Line and Tunnel. We will look at standard edge-led movement (Line) and face-led movement (tunnel). In both these types we will explore the limitless possibilities outside the common “tricks” held within the fully extended sphere.

We will then look at how breaking down a movement into all it’s possible variations can help to access new ways of moving the hoop through space. We will cover simple ways of transferring between the Line and Tunnel networks with emphasis put on hand folds and twists.

Neck and shoulder duckouts

On the horizontal plane, starting with neck duck outs with one arm out, progressing through breaks and stalls to shoulder passes. Can also expand this to the vertical plane.
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Twins (1.5-3hr workshops)

Transitioning with Twins

Please note: The tricks/transitions covered in this workshop can just as easily be applied to one hoop play.
In this workshop we will cover having a hoop on the hand and one at the waist, horizontal and vertical off-body movement with twins. We will then learn ways of transitioning between these tricks including step outs/step ins, lifts, jumps and stalls. This will give you a good basis for dancing with your twins which will make it easier to add in more complex tricks as you progress.
Emma will be happy to cover extra variations/more difficult combinations for those at a more advanced level.

Twin Hooping – Seperating the hands

By seperating the movement of the hands you can use all the tricks you know with one hoop and take them into twins. This becomes a great way of finding new tricks and is a great way to create new and exciting patterns.

Starting out with poi hooping

2bt weaves to 3bt
Corkscrews
Reels

More workshops are added all the time.  If you don’t see what you need then contact us and Emma will develop a workshop for you.

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