Category: Japan Tricks showcase

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Naomi hoops for pleasure and comes to most of our hoop jams and events. During the week, she’s a doctor. On the weekend, she’s an adventurer and hula hooper. And she’s always a thoughtful and lovely woman.

I couldn’t guess what trick she was going to bring to the video.

Yoyogi Breeeze was named after we shot it at Yoyogi Park during 4th Sunday Spin in April, but I know Naomi figured out the elegant and graceful sequence in advance. It’s comprised of tricks we all know, but have you ever put them together like this? I know I haven’t. But I will now!

If you like Naomi’s trick, please consider donating to help the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami survivors.

Thanks to features on Hooping.org and Hoop City, the Japan Tricks Showcase has been viewed 569 times in 2 days. Welcome international hoopers, to Spin Matsuri.

I hope that the donations are following as swiftly as the view count increases, though I understand that statistically only 10% of the people who look at something are likely to act on it. So thank you to the 57 people who have donated! I am grateful that you are one of those people.

We’ll never know the amount the showcase raises for the charities because your donations go directly to them, but I know they will all appreciate whatever you give.

And to be honest, I must admit that I am in the 90% who has seen the video and not donated. I’ll be rectifying that with some donations today. 🙂

While we were at Guru-guru Camp, I put together six of my hoops into a cube. It was fun to play with and everyone was getting incredibly creative with it: Miki crawled through it a dozen different ways, Masa grappled with it and then…Paolo jumped into it. Not a little jump – a standing leap right into the middle.

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He revealed to us that he’d been a high jump champion way back when.  He certainly still has the knack and a new trick was born – Dorobo (thief).

We all hope you like this trick and all the others. Please consider donating to help the people in Tokohu who struggling to recover from the earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. Details here.

The hooping community in Tokyo and throughout Japan is pretty incredible. Since the Tohoku quake and tsunami struck, many of our active, lively and lovely hoopers have been helping the disaster victims in many ways.

Sareh volunteered for a week of clearing muck in Ishinomaki and plans to return for more. She organised a flea market, too. Roon Roon has been performing in the shelters. Ayumi collected donations for the Red Cross in her classes. Deanne sold all her extra hoops and donated the proceeds. Heather gathered items for a local aid initiative. Soness made a call for a private shelter run by her Japanese family. Some hoopers are too humble to talk about what they are doing and I know there has been move volunteerism. Countless others have donated money to charities and NGOs.

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And now we launch a new fundraiser as a community – the Japan Tricks Showcase – as an outreach to hoopers around the world.

Over the last month, I’ve been running around filming my favorite hooping friends doing new and original moves. From early April until the end of Guru-guru Camp, I collected 20 moves from 19 clever and wonderful hoopers then edited them together into a 13 minute long video.

It’s sort of a tutorial with each move shown in real time and in slow motion. Each move is also a individual tutorial. There are tricks for beginners and by beginners, complex combos for performance, some moves that are elegant and some that are funny. They are all free to watch.

We truly hope that you will donate to one of the charities we support. They are all described on the project page with links to their websites and donation pages. I’ve been in touch with the leaders of each of them and they are grateful for our support. Whether you offer one dollar or a hundred, whatever you can afford will help to ease the trouble in northern Japan. Please open your heart, open your wallet and give generously.

This week I’ve had the joy of filming three of my favorite hoopers: Kana, Heather and Ayumi. Their original tricks have been edited into the Japan Tricks Showcase. This is going to be an epic tricks tutorial and reference. I am loving all the creativity and effort everyone is putting into this project. Thank you all so much.

One of the tricks Ayumi contributed is the Dango Break, which is a cute move inspired by  the Dango San Kyoudai (3 Dango Brothers) animation. Dango are a popular treat in Japan and Ayumi brought some to share at the filming session on Monday.

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This weekend I’ve had the pleasure of filming and editing the first three hoopers for the Japan Tricks Showcase, our charity video featuring original moves. Here are a few stills to give you an idea of the creativity and variety of the tricks being created.

At this time, there are a dozen hoop stars signed up and I hope even more will join the project. If you have a trick and want to be filmed, please drop an e-mail to spinmatsuri@gmail.com to schedule a time. Filming wraps up at the end of Golden Week Guru-guru Camp (May 5th) so don’t wait too long.

Dear Japan-based Hoopers,

With thoughts of relief and recovery in our minds, Tokyo hoopers have raised money for the Red Cross and collected food to help Peace Boat provide hot meals in Ishinomaki. Now join the Japan hooping community to create a video to raise money for local charities. Let’s show off our talents and reach out to hoopers around the world with a unique and fun fundraiser.

Japan Tricks Showcase

The Japan Tricks Showcase will be a tutorial video featuring Japan-based hoopers and their original hoop tricks. The video will show each trick at regular speed and then in slo-mo with the trick name and your name and city on screen. We’ll put it online and ask hoopers around the world to watch it and donate to charities in Japan.

You can invent your own original trick! Any sort of hoop trick is great – simple, silly, complicated, poses, circus, burlesque – anything goes. Every hooper in Japan is invited to participate, and you can do your trick solo or with a partner or group. The only “must” is that your trick’s name is inspired by Japan: sakura, kawaii, neko-chan, sushi. etc.

Filming Dates and Locations

* April 6, Wednesday: Ueno Park 12:00 – 14:00
* April 10, Sunday: Yoyogi Park 10:00 – 12:00
* April 16, Saturday: Utsunomiya 11:00 – 13:00
* April 17, Sunday: Ginza 14:00 – 17:00
* April 18, Monday: Hibiya Park, 11:00 – 14:00
* April 23, Saturday: Inokashira Park, 11:00 – 14:00
* April 24, Sunday: Yoyogi Park 10:00 – 12:30 before 4th Sunday Spin
* and at Guru-guru Camp, April 28 – May 5 on Niijima

Filming will take 15-30 minutes per trick. Bring your hoop and wear your favorite clothes or costume. If you cannot make it to one of the scheduled shoots, please make an appointment with me for a special session. Or submit your own HD footage directly (ask for specs) for editing.

To participate, please e-mail spinmatsuri@gmail.com the info below and I’ll get back to you with a confirmation and further details.

Your name:
Trick name:
Preferred shoot date/time:

Start thinking of a trick and I’ll see you in front of the camera soon!

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Kristen

P.S. Not sure you can invent a new trick? Pick a name and be inspired by it. Play, be silly. Mine’s called the Obi and it goes around the waist. 🙂

日本技ショーケース

日本技ショーケースは、日本に住むフーパーズのオリジナルフープトリックのチュートリアルビデオ編集です。スローモーションやタイトルごとにトリックが含まれます。それをオンラインで公開され、寄付をお願いいたします。

自分だけのオリジナルトリックを考案することができます！フープトリックのすべての並べ替えが素晴らしいです〜シンプルな、愚かな、複雑なポーズ、サーカス、バーレスク〜何でもいいです。日本のすべてのフーパーは参加に招待され、ソロ、パートナーやグループ、トリックを行うことができます。唯一の”必要”のトリックの名前が日本に触発されていることです：桜、かわいい、ねこちゃん、お寿司など。

* ４月６日（水）: 上野公園 12:00 – 14:00
* ４月１０日（日）: 代々木公園 10:00 – 12:00
* ４月１６日（土）: location TBD
* ４月１７日（日）: 銀座 14:00 – 17:00
* ４月１８日（月）: 日比谷公園, 11:00 – 14:00
* ４月２３日（土）: 井の頭公園, 11:00 – 14:00
* ４月２４日（日）: 代々木公園 10:00 – 12:30 第４日曜日スピン前
* そして ４月２８日−５月５日： 新島＠ぐるぐるチャンプ

撮影は15〜30分かかります。フープを持って、お好みの衣装を着て下さい。

上記の日程は不十分な場合は、特別セッションのためにお問い合わせください。または編集するための独自のHD映像を提出してください。（映像を送信する前に、技術的な仕様についてはお問い合わせください）

参加するには、以下の情報をメールspinmatsuri@gmail.comしてください。私は確認と詳細とあなたに戻って取得します。

名：
トリック名：
撮影日付/時間：

トリックを考えると私はすぐにカメラの前でお会いしましょう！

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クリステン