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World Hoop Day is just around the corner. Are you planning to celebrate?It’s not too late to put something together with your friends or hoop troupe. You can become a World Hoop Day ambassador and bring happiness to the world! Get your local hoop community together to make hoops, host a hoop disco at a senior center, school, or other facility, or give hoop lessons to kids (and adults) who need some fun in their lives. It is so satisfying to share the hoop love, and World Hoop Day is the best day to start.

Of course, I hope you’ll be incorporating the WHD Dance as part of your World Hoop Day celebrations.

Whether you are celebrating the solstice  the new year, or World Hoop Day, here is a gift from Spin Matsuri to you – a DIY hoop journal. 

Keeping track of your hoop journey on paper has many benefits. You can see progress over time, recall moves you worked on, note your inspirations and sketch out new ideas. Now you can put everything in one place, a journal that you can carry with you.

We’ve supplied page templates and two colorful cover options. Take them to your local copy shop to put it together. Make a few and gift them to your hooping friends!

Read more about it and download the files: http://spinmatsuri.com/free-stuff/hoop-journal/

WHD Dancers: (front) Deko, Aiko, Uko, Ayumi, Ogi, Grace (back) Tink, Kana, Swinky, Kouichi, Chie, Rio, Masashi, Keiko, RoonRoon

Mother Nature gave us a gift of unseasonable warmth for our WHD Dance filming yesterday. It was beautifully sunny at Yoyogi – everyone took off their coats and danced for almost two hours while we shot several takes.

I woke with laryngitis and aching lungs from a theatre workshop the day before, so I could neither lead nor follow. I am extremely grateful to Kana, who listened to my whispers and voiced them in two languages, and Ayumi who jumped in and got everyone rehearsed and drilled. Rob took charge of getting the right shots. I stood back and scribbled messages in my notebook. Thank you to everyone who read my notes and understood my terrible handwriting.

Rob says the raw footage looks good. I will edit it into a proper video to share later this week. Jesse’s fun panorama pictures look great. Visiting hooper Grace brought a friend along to photograph the event and I hope we’ll see those pictures soon.

Look it’s us…and us!

Beautiful day, beautiful hoopers! Thank you all so much for joining in.

Yesterday was the last stop on the World Hoop Day Dance tour – an elementary school in Utsunomiya. I taught three 6th grade classes excerpts from the choreography and gave everyone a performance along with their English teacher and hooper, Heather.

Heather and I practiced the choreography for about two hours on World Hoop Day and made some modifications for the kids’ version. It worked out very well and I think we are both happy with the results. We sneakily filmed one of the classes dancing, so expect a clip of them in the final compilation.