Hoop tutorial: cateyes

[TheSpeshalKay]

An iso pop is when you're doing an isolation, and then the hoop pops out up, down, to the right or to the left (more or less). Hope that helps!

[TheSpeshalKay]

We call these isolations. It's a cat-isolation in hooping (:

[RyenElwoodo]

hahahhhahah oh my god no way. Drex. This was one of the first hoop tutorials i ever watched back in the day,and its YOU!! too funny!! -Ryan

[meanfacedpanda]

this is awesome!

[love2lol908]

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[haverhill8246]

whats poi

[madidancer121]

I need to learn this...I've been looking for a tute for a little bit too and finally found it! yay. Thanks so much, i'll be trying tomorrow!

[mefusmelys20]

hi, i managed to learn the bounce in the 'lower plane' last yar but absolutely couldn't bounce over the top. so i gave up and have come back to it today, same problem. Feels like my wrist is going to snap when i try to stop the hoop after it swings over the top =S

Huge shame as I really like how this move looks!

[paigina]

@mefusmelys20 Try a lighter hoop!

[tnr320]

Thank you!

[shannonreeves1]

very helpful, thanks for a great tutorial!

[zeldagoblin]

Thanks for this, it helps so much the way you break it down

[codered1416]

thanks, i will give it a try.

[2pinkstars]

this is awesome :)

[Lanofaylin]

Thanks, explaining that the hoop goes one way while your hand goes the other really helped me....now if I just had my hoop at this moment. :D

[judynoel]

Looking forward to seeing the horizonal "isopop" tutorial. I think you're a great teacher! Cheers, Judy

[Bridie2278]

Did you ever get the horizontal up?? I can't seem to find anything on the horizontal.

[Grimsby2162]

u r super hot haha

[missminglegingle]

Awsome!! That was very helpful! Thank you!!! Can you do a tutorial for the horizontal one?? :)

[janetplanet73]

im gonna go try it for the first time! I'll get back to you!

[jjainchill]

I love it! Did you make the horizontal one yet? Great breakdown :)

[candyapple72]

Luv it! Super cool trick, I haven't seen this one before! Can't wait to try and learn the horizontal as well. Thanks for sharing :)

[jtonia]

thanks Tao! I wanted start learning isopops and this video got me started. I just successfully did this move for the first time. Now that I know how it feels, I can keep practicing cat eyes while moving on to some more difficult variations. Thanks for your video!

[Cstrmy]

really appreciate this!

[chewbobington]

Read through your comments and thought I would give a little more insight to the "isopop" move. The term "isopop" was actually coined by Rich Porter (it's also the name of his website, you might check him out, you have similar teaching styles!). Like Khan (mutantsong) says, it starts with an isolation and then lets the hoop "pop" out in a sharp contrast. If you search for Rich on YouTube you can find some incredible examples of this.

Great tutorial! Going to subscribe. :)

[herseyb]

awesome

[laurenislost]

Thank you for this, great tutorial, but for some reason the arm stuff has always been really tricky for me,and this is no exception, I will see if i practice more. My ceiling is low, too!!

[heavenlymayday]

Good tute. I'm not quite to a place that I can manage this one yet, but it's on my list of stuff to work on. So now i know where to look for it when I need it, thanks!

[lavinder5]

OK, been working through this. As with many things, what looks easy is deceptively hard! Your explanation has helped me get the feel of it, even though I tend to hit my nose on the way back up.

I also request more videos. Many thanks.

[lavinder5]

Thanks for this. I'm loving the crossover that's occurring among the spin artists. Feel I have a lot to learn from you.

[mutantsong]

Hey Drex, nice to see ya on the hoop side. Thanks for this. I never really understood what was going on in cateyes before. They're different from isopops -- the difference being that isopops 'pop' out of isolation and the center of rotation switches to the hand for a rotation. In cateyes it's isolated the whole time.

I've been working on the horizontal version but never realized it was a cateye!

[martamima]

Nice, clear job of explaining this. Thank you!

[ribanafish]

This is a very helpful tutorial. Thank you very much. It is extremely detailed! Keep shining!

[TaoAvatar20]

Hey, all--your wish is my command! I've unfortunately lost my camera someplace over the weekend, but I will have a horizontal cateye tutorial up as soon as I find it again. Thanks everyone for the great feedback!

[HoopDanceNederland]

@TaoAvatar20: Great tutorial... really helpfull!! Thanks :) Im a hooper and have been wondering how this cat-eye is done!! Now i can practise!! xx

[asyryda]

Yah horizontal cat eye tutorial!! prettty please

[Hoopforlife]

Your tutorial is GREAT! Very helpful...I really like this move and have been wanting to learn it. I had no idea what it was called. Please do a tutorial on the horizontal cateyes, too!

[moon0989]

i can do the horizontal one but not the vertical! :/

[Justanotherspinner]

This move is easy to do with a hoop but quite difficult with Poi. Learning Poi and staff has helped my hooping loads.x

[BoBeena]

It Was INDEED Helpful! Excellent breakdown and slow demonstration! Your laid-back style really helps, too. Thank you so much. I'd very much appreciate more demos.

[argosxilow]

I really enjoyed this tutorial. I'm looking to work more on my off-body hooping. Would love to see an explanation for the horizontal version.

[ladylambhulla]

thanks for the tutorial ive seen a lot of greathoopers do this move and i never new how to just break it down i really would like you too do the side to side version . i know a lot of ppl appreciate this. thanks so much >> many hoops linz

[SusanWilkinson]

This is really helpful. I love to see the isolations and pops, but can't ever work out what the hands are doing because it happens so fast. This is really well broken down. Can't try it until tomorrow as the ceilings here are even more challenged than yours.

Please do the horizontal version too. You have a nice relaxed style of demonstration.

[HipEHoops]

Great tutorial! I've been throwing around the idea of learning to spin poi in order to better my hooping, and I've heard lots of other hoopers say the same. I would love to see more tutorials on incorporating typically poi moves to the hoop.

[rivesrhllfdr]

great tutorial as usual

[bremoon]

I love this tutorial! I have been trying to get isopops for the longest. I can't wait to learn the horizontal version. Thanks for sharing these awesome hoop/poi tutorials it seems there are not that many tutorials out there for poi style hooping. so thanks again.

[11mcp11]

Continued door fail.

[sonnykennedy]

rofl

[rivesrhllfdr]

sho, clair, and matt just made a bunch of hoops. i think there going to sell afew of them at earthdance if you or any one you know thats going is intrested let me or matt know.

[sephiroth87932]

thanks for replying and for the video it is going to help alot =)

[sephiroth87932]

which is harder to do hoop or poi?

[TaoAvatar20]

I think poi is harder, but then again I learned poi first.

[FireSandra]

I agree. I would say poi is one of the most difficult props to learn because you begin with two at once.

In regards to poi and poi style mini hooping, I'd say the mini hoops are harder because you have to constantly adjust your grip.

Much love,

SaFire of Hoop City

[ambear7]

I think Poi is way harder, and I hooped first! It's very different from hooping and thats what confused me, but it's a very mesmerizing, and meditative art form :]

[sephiroth87932]

do you do the same movement for poi? i have always thought it was circle for hand elipse for poi

[TaoAvatar20]

It is an ellipse for the poi. Here's why it looks different for each tool: poi exist as two points along any given circle whereas the hoop constantly defines the circle. If you put a bit of tape around the section of hoop directly opposite your hand and just looked at that, it would look like a poi-style ellipse. This kind of dichotomy is actually really common between tools. Antispin flowers in double staves, for example, have petals counted completely differently than those done with poi.