“Sports Rap” piece produced by Robert Manciero
summer 1996
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HULA HOOP HOOPING Mat Plendl HOOLA HOOPS 1996
Ohio Fire Dancers – Lara’s Fire Hula Hoop at the Spring Fling 2008
We’re fire performers for hire. Contact us at www.soulfiretribe.com and we will **ROCK** a party like nothing you’ve seen before. This is one act of many and we always have a fun time. Check out our other videos on youtube and pictures at our site.
Here is the link to our promotional video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IVLaUSXj60
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Ms. Hoola Hoop can dance
Just another day on the street.Cirque Du Soleil – Alegria – Hoola Hoops
The hoola-hoops act in Alegria, performed by Elena Lev. The song is “Cerceaux”, and the singers are Francesca Gagnon and Eve Montpètit. Enjoy!
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Hula hoop in the park in Ojai
Here we have a lesson in the hula hoop given to me by Phyllis from Ojai who I met in the park in that town. Fans of the six million dollar man may remember the town from the 1970s as the home of Steve Austin and Jaimie Sommers (the bionic woman). Ojai was once named Nordhoff but with the anti German sentiment caused by WW1 the name was changed to Ojai which comes from the local Chumash language.
Throughout history, the hula hoop has been used in various cultures for a number of purposes. In ancient Greece, citizens used the hula hoop as a form of exercise. In Egypt around 3,000 years ago, hoops made out of grape vines were propelled around the ground with sticks. Native Americans used hoops as a target for teaching accuracy for hunting. The word “hula” was added in the early 18th century as sailors who visited Hawaii noticed the similarity between hula dancing and tripping hoops.
Plastic hula hoops were first manufactured and sold in Australia. In 1957, Coles department store sold bamboo hoops, but the supplier couldn’t produce enough to meet demand. So they invited Alex Tolmer, the founder of Toltoys, to produce plastic ones. Toltoys sold 400,000 plastic hoops in 1957. In 1958, Melin and Knerr of Wham-O started to market hula hoops in the USA, selling 100 million over that summer. The craze lasted from January to October, then suddenly died. In only four months, an estimated 80 to 100 million of them were sold in 1958. Hula Hoops became famous all over the world. In Indonesia, playing with a hoop in public was banned because in that culture it was not socially acceptable to shake one’s hips in public. Later in 1965, WHAM-O developed hoops with several ball bearings trapped inside of the ring.
In 1957 the hula (also frequently spelled “hoola”) hoop was reinvented by Richard Knerr and Arthur “Spud” Melin, founders of the Wham-O toy company. (The two had founded the company in a Los Angeles garage in 1948 to market the “Wham-O” slingshot, which was originally invented to shoot pieces of meat into the air, as a training device for falcons). The idea came from an Australian who had visited California who told Knerr and Melin about children twirling bamboo hoops around the waist in gym class. The new Hula Hoops were made possible by Marlex, a recently invented durable plastic.
Knerr and Medlin were unable to patent their vastly profitable “re-invention”, as it had been in use for thousands of years; making the device out of a new material did not meet patent requirements of originality. They were largely able, however, to protect their invention by trademarking “Hula hoop”.
After the hoop was released in 1958,Wham-O sold 25 million in the first four months and over 100 million in its first year. As the fad ran its course, Wham-O again struck lucky with the release of their Frisbee.
My channel on you tube : http://www.youtube.com/alanheath is one of the most prolific from Poland.
There are a number of films here on the packaging industry. This is because I am the publisher of Central and Eastern European Packaging — http://www.ceepackaging.com – the international platform for the packaging industry in this region focusing on the latest innovations, trends, design, branding, legislation and environmental issues with in-depth profiles of major industry achievers. Most people may think packaging pretty boring but it possibly effects your life more than you really imagine!
Central and Eastern European Packaging examines the packaging industry throughout this region, but in particular in the largest regional economies which are Russia, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Austria. That is not to say that the other countries are forgotten, they are not, but obviously there is less going on. However the fact that there are so many travel related films here is not from holidays but from business trips attending trade fairs around the region and the sites http://www.ceepackaging.com/articles/… and http://www.ceepackaging.com/articles/… give a pretty good idea where future films are going to come from! Every packaging trade fair is a new excuse to make another film!
In 1997 I founded Polish Business News http://www.pbn.com.pl .There are a number of business related films here and I intend to do many more on CRM (customer relations management).
My blog can be found via http://www.ceepackaging.com and http://www.pbn.com.pl and contains background information and more details of many of my films. This information is in English.
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Roscoe Umali f/Liberty “Hoola Hoop”
http://www.myx.tv LA Jumpoff performance
Roscoe Umali f/Liberty “Hoola Hoop”
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SaFire Hoop Dancing Tutorial: Hooping at the knees
http://www.hoopcity.ca
http://www.safiredance.com
Instructional video demonstrating a basic technique for hula hooping at the knees.
This is my first hooping tutorial. How did I do? Does it make sense? Feedback is awesome!
Let me know if there is a certain trick you want to learn and I’ll see if I can break it down.
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Kabarett Cirque De L’Enfer – Hula Hoop
Seduced By Circus – Charlie – Hula Hoop – Kabarett Cirque De L’Enfer – Sheffield Library Theatre
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Mya Hula Hoop Hamster Dance
Mya’s kindergarten talent show hula hoop apolooza – be sure to watch past the first 20 seconds
Duration : 0:2:51
Golden Gate Hula Hoop Chick
Four in the afternoon in Golden Gate Park on Saturday January 20, 2007, the smell of spleef on the breeze, the rhythm of many drums drifting across the lawns, and the undulating ease of a hoop chick who’s got it down
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