Vibram fivefingers

Justin put me onto these, aren't they just so hilarious !! My wife certainly wont come out with me wearing these !! Oh that's ok, I have other attire already where I have to walk alone if we are out together, lol.

But they are fantastic to wear, they arrived today and I've worn them around the house and garden all day. It really is like bare feet.

These are the sprint model; for training, running, walking, hiking, swimming, fishing, climbing it says but of course we have added the hooping. You can just wash them out and hang them on the line to dry.

Haha ... just off to try them at hooping !

Oh just blogging

I have not blogged for ages !! I just put up some of our garden photos, it looks delightful this time of the year.

Although we have a fair sized garden there is actually little space to hoop. You can see my favourite place by my green hoop mat under the very old overhanging apple trees. Sometimes I place the mat on the lawn but even then there are only two areas to hoop without crashing the plants down. My wife must take the credit for the garden and my life would not be worth living if I hoop smashed the plants !!

We have a tarmac yard also where I hoop but this is on a slope, not so good and it demolishes tape on the hoops instantly.

Haha I'm not moaning really !! Just telling ya what its like. I do try and hoop daily, but then keep forgetting and getting sidetracked with work, so its about three times a week in reality.

Going on my annual week French fishing trip on Wednesday 25th June. 5 guys .. fishing, eating out and drinking. Great, can't wait and my hoop is there waiting for me.

Still have not converted any locals to hooping in spite of making so many free hoops for folks. I just need a couple of converts and we will be up our Village Park for sure. I have some great mp3 travel speakers for mobile music, just need some m8s to join me. I still feel a dickhead going up the park on my own .. so I dont !!

Well great weather forecast for hooping tomorrow, better make sure I make the most of it !!!

Don't try this at home !!

Just reading about The Royal Academy summer Exhibition this year.

Apparently Tracy Emin is curating a room. We all know she tries to be shocking and one her choices caught my eye.

It is a video by Israeli artist Sigalit Landau showing a naked woman hula hooping with barbed wire. The longer it goes on the more cut and bloody she becomes !!

uk.youtube.com/watch

Happy Easter

Hooping in a winter wonderland !!

Amazing to get snow Easter Sunday in the south of England but I just had to go and hoop in it.

Not a bad morning really, I found I had won £20 on the lottery, hooped in the snow and looking forward to the Arsenal match this afternoon .. perfect day.

Happy Easter Folks

Jackson's Lane

Well in spite of it being Mother's Day it was well attended .. I counted 14, still room for more in this magnificent venue.

Two young girls brought their mother for a treat.

A great afternoon, I've been really lax recently hooping, so much pruning and needed in the garden right now !! So I had a ball.

2 hours is so much better than just a one hour session.

I put a vid on google video: video.google.co.uk/videoplay

The great young hooper with the yellow top is Hooptrix (Beatrix) .. super hooper !!

Thanks Diana, looking forward to more .. Alan

Jackson's Lane Arts Centre. with Diana Defries

What a fantastic Sunday afternoon. I think we were all feeling the winter effects!! I for one cannot hoop in my low ceiling house.

It certainly has has a well being effect on me, to have a 2 hours hooping session with like minds !!

Absolutely delightful venue, high ceilings, mirrors, with plenty of space and a brand new sprung floor.. couldn't ask for more !!

Its not a class, but folks were ready to assist and help each other.

I counted 14 hoopers, and Diana says it will continue once a month. Hoorah, it took me 40 minutes each way such and easy drive.

Well worth a visit for UK hoopers within distance. Also delightful to meet Sharna again with her mate.

There are 3 more photos in my album and I will edit my small vid clips and put these up shortly.

Thanks Diana for such a well oganised afternoon.

Whooohoo I'm in a good mood and off to the pub !!

China

Wow what an adventure!!

I have put a few pics up but I had an absolutely amazing time. Sarah is an internet Skype meet from 3 years ago, we always said one day it would be for real and I kinda took on a bluff,. she never thought I would go!! .. but I did and it was fabulous, it never rained in 17 days and we did Shanghai, Nantong, Tongzhou City (her house, son and parents) Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Zhou Zhuang and back to Shanghai.

Being accompanied by a local was fantastic. Eating with chopsticks full time, local flavours like steamed dumplins, cookpots in restaurants .. fish heads, ducks feet, sheeps intestines being all local favourites !! Hahaha it was good if you don't think about it.

But after doing hooping in first hotel that was it unfortunately. I got stared at enough without hooping !!

Good to be back now and going hooping tomorrow in Hemel Hemstead at Diana's class.

Gone to China

Just to let you know I'm off to Shanghai tomorrow on my own. A little adventure and will be visiting Beijing and other attractions in southern China. My first visit to China.

Of course my hoop is packed !! I will have to get some candid pix / vids to show you upon my return on 3rd December.

Happy hooping folks XX

Yay i got my psi

It arrived this morning, beautifully packed with 6 pages of destructions.

Faultless so far .. I've tried it on grass (be ages before I use this on tarmac methinks).

I really like it, the 1.25lbs weight is amazing with 16 leds and rechargeable batteries.

It was coiled in a much smaller box seen on left in photo but it went back to perfect round immediately.

The recharge is so simple, just plug it in for a few hours with the charger provided.

****** MAGIC ******

Hooping in Hemel Hempstead

Wow what a gorgeous day today to go to Hemel and hoop. The building was delightful as was the company.

It was only 20 minutes journey for me, brilliant, and Diana Defries is going to do more there with a 6 week course starting in November.

Yay I don't mind starting from scratch with folks, its just great to be hooping with a group.

Just a small vid off my phone: www.youtube.com/watch