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  • That was amazing!!

  • Hello I am five years old and learning to hula hoop. Mama always tells me "never give up!" and I keep going because I want to be the best me I can be! I love hooping and hope I can be as awesome as you someday! Love and sunshine, ~Autie

  • Awesome video. Right at the point I think I can get no better, and I see this. Thank you! Nearly crying with relief to see someone so good dropping so many hoops! My boyfriend just accused me of being a total suck up to people I don't know (heartless loser!) but I really thank you for doing this vid. :) Happy hooping x

  • Me levantaste el ánimo, hace rato, no pude hacerlo, ya deje de prácticar mucho y ahora que veo tu video, que los intentos son buenos y no hay que dejarse vencer, gracias! y que bueno q ahora te salga a la perfección!!, la´práctica hace al maestro ;)

  • This video ALWAYS makes me cry. Love it.

  • This is beautiful. I hope that these three years later, still receiving comments from new hoopers, that you're doing as well as when you made this video. I hope you're still loving the hoop, and you're still making videos that make people want to pick up what they've put down.

  • Thank you from a beginning hooper! This gives me hope that one day I'll be able to do more than just lasso haha :)

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you for this video <3 I'm looking forward to joining your online class soon.

  • Wow!!! I'm so grateful to have stumbled across this amazing video! This is super inspiring, thank you for creating this. I'm brand new at this, only a week in, I loved the "drop" segment lol. My family laughs everytime it hits the wall. This really motivated me, thank you :)

  • a lot changed since 2006 :) try harder and good luck :>

  • As someone who is very critical of herself, hooping is the first thing I've found where I have, from the start, loved the process of learning and loved even the mistakes I made. This video captures that perfectly and motivates me even more. Thank you for sharing with us. <3

  • Gorgeous video! Made me cry.

  • This was amazing! So inspiring

  • I always watch this when I am feeling down and need to be inspired again. I am too hard on myself sometimes. I need to have patience with my hooping but it is hard sometimes when I want to be AMAZING NOW! Thanks for the reminder!

  • this video was such an inspiration for me. especially the " try it slowly, even if it barerly count" and "try not to judge yourself" Hopefully i can get videos up soon to show my progress also (: I absolutely fell in love with hooping

  • Thank you so much for your amazing video! I, myself am a fellow hooper and am approaching my 1 year anniversary of hooping ... unfortunately, I feel as if I'm behind with the entire process but your video has reminded me that everything takes time :] Thank you so much and hopefully we get to hoop some time in the near future :]

  • ive just started hula hooping and i suck, i know most ppl suck when they just start. its just hard bc i dont know anyone else who hoops and cant afford classes. but this video makes me want to hoop even if i forever suck haha hopefully ill get better!

    thank you!

  • hi, where do you get your hula hoops from? Are they specially weighted ones? Or can I just pick them up from like Toys R Us and put tape on that? lol been trying to ask around!!

  • <3

  • i give up often, but this video gave me the hope that i WILL be the hooper iwant to be!

  • That little waddle at the end makes the video.

  • this video is awesome.. it's so easy to forget there are other hoopers in their bedrooms smacking themselves in the face repeatedly trying to learn tricks when all you see are gorgeous videos online.. thanks for the inspiration, you really are an amazing hooper and person!!

  • Very impressed, nicely done

  • omg thank you sooo much for this video .. i have been hooping for about a month now and have been documenting my journey all the way :) so that one day i can share my story like you :) hopefully i will keep getting better and better .. i love it .. its so self expressing and ive never had "a thing" that i can express my self with, and have something that is so much fun to just do by yourself even you know? just me music and the hoop.

  • Where did you get your outfit on 3:10?? I love it :)

  • @bamagirl595 I made it! That was the first hoop costume I ever made.  ; )

  • @FireSandra Thanks!

  • @FireSandra This is seriously beautiful. Thank you for being my biggest hooping inspiration. This video made me cry because the process IS so beautiful....sometimes so difficult, but always so beautiful. And I absolutely LOVE the outfit you made!! I have been looking everywhere for a pattern for a skirt like that! What is that type of skirt called?! SaFire, thank you so much for this video, and all you do. <3 xoxo happy hooping and love from KY - Leah

  • Great video, thanks for sharing!

  • this is an awesome video.. very inspiring (not only for hooping but) for everything in life.. Thank you for sharing SaFire! I'm sharing this with friends as well.. ;)

  • safire u rock~~very inspiring~~~:)

  • i decided to watch this video because i was looking through the videos in your "plant the seeds" course on hoopcity.. honestly, i've already watched it a bunch of times and it NEVER ceases to inspire me and feel more confident about my hooping in general. your words are medicine to the hooping soul :) keep on being awesome, safire!!

  • Thank you so much for this. I really needed this message today, for hoop and for so many other things.

  • i LOVE LOVE LOVE this video :)

  • just started hooping today, this vid made me feel 10x better bout it haha

  • Thanks for making such an motivational video, you're truly inspiring.

  • Heh, great video :) you know how to motivate, thanks :)

  • youve inspired me to pursue my hooping with more passion. thank you so fucking much. i love my hoop <3<3<3

  • i love this i love you weeeeeeeee

  • @ GhostieDarling : Are you using the right size hoop? It sounds like that may be your problem. Hooping in the opposite direction seems a bit akward at first, but I just have a feeling that you may be using a hoop that is too small. I was kinda dumb & started out with a toy hoop I bought @ K-mart. haha. Maybe try making another one and see if that helps at all & good luck! <3

  • beautiful video. You are such an insperation. I so wish I could afford your classes!! (not that they're really expensive or anything...I'm just poor) everytime I start dropping the hoop, and dropping and dropping and dropping it, I come here. Thanx for the reminder of why I do this in the first place! <3

  • I have actually downloaded this and put it on my iPod to watch when I get frustrated. Such a great reminder. <3 Thanks for this and all your awesome tutorals. You've taught me so much!!

  • u r great

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  • I've been hooping everyday for the past few weeks, and I've been challenging myself with hooping int he opposite direction. very hard for me. And when I get mad at myself and throw my hoop down, I come in and watch this video and you make me never want to give up on anything I do in my life.

    Thanks, Safire <3

  • wow thank you sooooo much!!

  • so positive wonderful thanks for sharing!

  • this really truly helps me to keep at it! thank you so much sandra :)

  • Whenever I start to feel discouraged or like I've hit a wall in my progress I watch this video and that child-like enthusiasm and determination washes over me again. Thank you. <3

  • thank so much for such an inspiring video!! your message really applies to everyone no matter what they want to achieve!

  • You ARE my inspiration!!! I've learned SOOO much from SaFires vids!!!! Ready for my fire hoop!!!!

  • Thanks so much for this video, it's very inspirational!

  • This is such a great video!!!!! I LOVE IT!!

  • I'm just beginning my hooping process and whenever I get frustrated with something, I watch this video and it makes me teary and smile-y. Thank you so much for sharing this.

  • <3

    

  • This video is very inspirational for me. On days that I have trouble and get frustrated with a particular move, I like to remember the advice you give here.

    With that in mind...is there any way you can make this video playable for iPhones? I can't get to a computer right now and I'd love to watch it!

  • Such an inspiring hooping video. Watched it a few times now, probably will a few more.

  • The reason why I love this video, and how it was edited, is it shows the beautiful process of struggling, up to the wobby and unsteady success, to finally landing it. And I love seeing your "mini audience" (aka roommate/boyfriend?) and how he is admiring you; fascinated at witnessing a little facet of your world :)

  • love it!

  • This is like soft porn, very nice :D

  • 1:22

    that's what she said? :P

  • i love this video T_T

  • YOU'RE AMAZING & inspiring! Please check out my hoop video. It's not meant to show off, but to spread the joy of the sport....alot like this video ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

    Much love :)

    -Kimberly3eb

  • This video meant a lot to me. I find it easy to get discouraged by comparing myself to others and lose track of why I'm hooping in the first place--- because it feels good. This was a nice reminder that brilliant hoopers are only brilliant because they've dropped their hoops 10,000 times before and will continue dropping hoops because they never want to stop learning. Love the process indeed! I'll take your advice and start documenting my progress for myself so I don't take it for granted.

  • Thank you! This is so inspiring! I finally bought and used my first hoop last night after months of watching youtube videos and googling hooping and I love it. I will be watching this video over and over when I get discouraged. Thanks again!

  • its amazing that you documented it from beginning to end and shared it to everyone. Amazing. ^_^

  • You are an inspiration.

    Not just to aspiring hoop spinners or acrobats everywhere,

    But to anyone that has ever had a dream.

    Don't ever cease to be amazing.

  • new crush in progress. so i just have to keep going even though i suck? Nice :)

  • Hi hi.

    I'm a poi spinner, recently met some hoopers, hence: looked up some vids and found this. Very well done. It's so awesome that you put your own experience into this video to show the human element of learning, trying, failing, and succeding, instead of just posting a vid about what you CAN do.

    It's what we CAN'T do...yet... that determines who we're going to be later on.

    Good job.

    mew!

  • That was so cute! I havent hooped in about a year but have been dying to get back in the hoop...maybe this is extra motivation! :)

  • jajajaja i cry!!!! jajajaja awesome video!!! congratulations. from torreon, coahuila, mexico :)

  • this is so inspiring it makes me want to cry. she goes from being such a beginner to being beyond amazingfantasticincredible. such an inspiration

  • so inspirational...what is the best hoop to use for the one leg hooping. what weight and size works best for that trick? :) Thanks!

  • What an inspirational video about hula hooping...... lmfao

  • Thank you sooooo much for this. I have been practicing for a few weeks now and this helped me remember that its not something I can learn over night. It gave me inspiration and hope to be as wonderful as you some day! I am going to watch this video every day before I get out there and hoop. :) Once again thank you for this video

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  • inspiring...and so true!

  • No matter how long I have been hooping, or how long I neglect learning something new, when I teach others how to hoop I always think of you when I need help. Thank you for sharing your gift of talent SaFire! Hope to see you in Seattle again soon! Tierany

  • I love this. Makes me smile knowing even the awesome struggle to get there :D

  • I'm not into hula hoops, nor will I probably ever hoop.

    But, you've made a big fan out of me. You're video has inspired me to keep going on my own journey.

    You're awesome.

  • I'm not into hula hoops, nor will I probably ever hoop.

    But, you've made a big fan out of me. You're video has inspired me to keep going on my own journey.

    You're awesome.

  • My respect has just increased for you tremendously (was that even possible?) Thank you for making this video. It shows that even the best of the best are human :) Wonderful inspiration. Thank you.

  • This is just what I needed after some frustration today with my hoop. Off to do more practice now :D Thanks!

  • Truly beautiful. Makes me feel better about all the difficulties I'm having with the hoop. Thanks for sharing.

  • You are incredible! Such an inspiration - it's truly all about the process.

  • That is awesome! I'm just beginning and have a few videos of my hooping, but they all look terrible at the moment :P

  • Love it!

  • Well done Sandra, you are an inspiration!

  • i love this video!:)

  • so true! 

  • <3 Love Love Love this just as much as I did the firs time I saw, maybe even more. You are beautiful! Thank you for inspiring so many of us to keep pushing through- and it is so important to love the process. Hooping, like life is about the journey, the experience. Much love sweet woman! Thanks for all you do for the hooping community. You ARE AMAZING!!!

  • I.n.s.p.i.r.a.t.i.o.n.a.l

  • so awesome ! I want ot be like you!

  • Awesome! 

  • I absolutely love this video. It makes me want to keep trying, even when I want to give up. And to remember to have fun with the process of learning! :D

  • This has to be the best video I have watched yet! Thank YOU Thank YOU Thank YOU!!! You are so amazing and such an inspiration!

  • so inspirational! thanks girl :):):):):):)

  • This is amazing. I love it. Such an inspiration to everyone :D

  • I love this video! I am so glad that you shared it and let all of us aspiring hoopers know that even the very best have to go through "the process". I get so frustrated with it but I know you just keep plugging along and you will get it! XO. Diana

  • right on sister

  • finally got my hoop! can't wait to get started!

  • love this! it's so true!

  • You are so beautiful and inspiring! This also inspired me to record my first video of me hooping yesterday, so thanks! :)

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  • this is wonderful! so inspirational, thank you!

  • I love it what inspiration

  • Hey, great vid! Thanks for sharing =)

  • Great encouragment for love and life as well, what an intriguing place to find good philosophy.

  • THANK YOU for this! So encouraging :)

  • Have you had any formal training? And this is a very excellent inpirational video. Nice job.

  • I love this its brilliant!!! this made me laugh and reminded me not to get too cranky at myself! when im practicing to perform, i show my boyfriend and totally screw up n drop it, but when im on stage infront of hundreds it goes really well, haha go figure, THANK YOU :)

  • wonderful!!! and very very inspiring for beginners! you rock safire!!!

  • Oh SaFire... you are such a creative and inspiring force in the hoop world. Thank you for this!

  • It's so awesome to see the actual process of getting better by someone who is so good, to see what you had to go through to get better! To give us beginners inspiration . Loved it.

  • What a wonderful video! In all aspects.

  • Amazing

  • This video helps me remember that it is a process! I love it and everytime I can't get a trick or am dropping the hoop over and over I come watch this video! Thanks! Your videos have helped teach me to hoop! I can't thank you enough!

  • safire !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!you are amazing i am from argentina i follow you every day !!i love youuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • love this video. every time i drop the hoop and start to get frustrated, i just remember that its part of the process :)

  • Every time I watch you hoop it makes me so happy to know that you were the one who inspired me to pick one up and keep trying no matter what. If I ever get to meet you one day I will give you the biggest hug and probably cry a little bit. Thank you for being my muse.

  • Must....buy....hoola hoop...must...brains.....hoola­ hoop....braaaains...

  • love this. inspiring. <3

  • awesome. now i need some more practice....

  • perfect :) i love it. it's my favourite hoop movie.

  • This is my favorite youtube video. I adore you Sandra!

  • Ahhh love safire!

  • Thank You

  • this inspired me about my hesitations in hooping, most of the time i stumble and you showed me that it's okay...pick it back up and try again you'll get it thanks :)

  • how long had you been hooping when you made the "SaFire in the Sun" video? It's the most beautiful video I've seen.

  • Thanks for making me not give up

  • That's you in all the different parts?

    Your hooping has developed AWESOMELY. :]

  • Thank you!!

  • this is awesome!!

  • :) This was great motivation! Now I gotta go practice some more! :) Thanks for giving hope!

  • that was inspiring. i started hooping today and am having difficulties but your video just made me hopeful! you rock!

  • Excellent video Safire! Thanks for sharing- LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Wow! I couldn't have watched this video at a better time in my life! thank you girl:) you're inspiring and super talented!!!

  • Wow! I couldn't have watched this video at a better time in my life! thank you girl:) you're inspiring and super talented!!!

  • Muchas Gracias!!!!:)

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  • girl... this video made me cry! i'm still in the waaay beginning stages of hooping and i've used your tutorials countless times. your videos are truly inspiring and so helpful. thanks for posting this so we could all see that no matter how good someone is, they had to go through the same things we are going through as beginners!

  • I just want to say thank you.

  • I love this video. a lot.

  • BEAUTIFUL! Thanks so much for this. :)

  • I love this it makes me wanna become better.

  • This definitely inspires :D

  • I absolutely love you SaFire! (: this truly inspires me to try harder everyday and never quit.

  • woww!! n____________n es vdd!!

  • that is so amazing and beautiful and just wow!!! thank you!!!

  • this is perfect for my girlfriend a poi spinner and beginner hoop spinner she hit a wall with poi and hoops she cant do anything and i keep telling her to just keep going dont stop, she'll make it someday...not only for her but me as well, i am stuck at the advanced level of poi trying to push every and any technique i can under me and well sometimes i just wanna give up, but its my dream to become an artist of the flow...i will attain it someday...thank you Sandra :)

  • 4 people just simply cant be :(

  • love that!

  • this is great.. thanks!

    

  • this is great.. thanks!

  • ths is great.. thanks!

  • this is very inspirational, you are right document even if you never plan to share, I recently started hoop and I love poi also, not anywhere near being good but it sure is fun anyways, as long as it makes me happy and its fun, why not..Diana 47yrs young

  • Thank you so much for making this video. I watch it when I get frustrated with my hooping and it helps me to remember to enjoy the process of learning. : )

  • This instantly makes me feel better about my progress. I know it's natural to make mistakes but seeing this makes it sink in, it's all a learning curve. Thanks Sandra xxx

  • Very inspirational video. I don't have my hoop yet due to financial setbacks, but I do know that when I do, I will follow this advice every time I drop the hoop.. I'll pick it right back up and just laugh......

    and keep going......

  • Hey. I'm swirygrrls' other half, Jeff. Thank you; you have insired and taught Kim, who is now teaching others in Baton Rouge the joy of the hoop. I have watched and learned with her and I wish to tell you that of all the vids you've put up, I think this is your best yet.

    Thank you.