Hoop Tutorial: Horizontal Cateyes and Unit Circle Theory

By popular demand: a follow-up to my last hoop tutorial, this time on the horizontal equivalent of the cateye pattern I demoed last time. It breaks down in a very similar fashion to the vertical, but requires a bit more wrist strength at a couple intervals. I've also included a brief discussion on how you can use both vertical and horizontal cateyes in conjunction with isolations and extensions to flow between tricks. This is a variation on Alien Jon's unit circle theory. For more info on this, visit his YouTube channel. Enjoy! :)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• hoop
• cateye
• horizontal
• unit circle
• tutorial
• lesson

[krissztiina]

this is craaaazy, cateyes with hoop, what an insanely fantastic idea!!!

[TaoAvatar20]

I really wish I could claim it was mine ;)

If you really want to see some great applications of this concept, look up some videos from Rainbow Michael or Sean Stogner--they make what I'm doing here look like a kid on their first day of school.

[RyenElwoodo]

HA! "The response has been rather...deafening."

[larnjune11]

Thanks! I need to keep working on this!

[marisaminonno]

Got it! finally with a smaller hoop, what size are you using?

[viverrss]

HAHAH the part where you retrieve the hula hoop after it spins off was too cute.

[Gr4ssr0ots]

thank you soooo much! ive been searching and searching for a horizontal iso video and you broke it down perfectly, I can finally wrap my brain around it now :)

[ForestFaerieLaughter]

CIRCLE THEORY!!!! yes FINALLY something mathematic to explain these movements. Thank you!!! I think in math and physics, but the illusion of this motion has fooled me. Until you came up with this explanation. Thank you!!

[ShelleyHoops]

I love both of your cat eye hooping tutorials! More please!!

[dubstepfrenzy]

You are an amazing isolation teacher!

[fuckyeahyourpixie]

This was very helpful! it took me about 20 minutes of my own practicing, but i now i have it down! Thank you so much!

[dubmango]

this was a great tutorial, i am suddenly able to do things with my hoop that i never could have fathomed before (well at least i try to!). thanks for this, and i hope you will make more tutorials about poi moves you can do with a hoop. do you ever use minis?