Hoop tutorial: cateyes

On world hoop day, I found myself teaching a large crowd of hoopers how to do a move that's called a cateye in poi. Here's a to-do for it being as how I haven't seen another video tutorial out there for it. To see this move in action, check out videos by Rainbow Michael or Sean Stogner.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• hoop
• hoop dance
• cateye

[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!

[sephiroth87932]

which is harder to do hoop or poi?

[TaoAvatar20]

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

[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.

[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]

H2O H2O H2O H2O H2O H2O H2O paste this to four other videos and see what happens next time you touch water

[haverhill8246]

whats poi



[paigina]

@mefusmelys20 Try a lighter hoop!

[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!