This blog is designed to chronicle my progress towards a simple goal: I want to hoop until I've dropped my hoop 10,000 times.
What is hooping? Essentially, dancing with a hula hoop. Allow my hooping hero, Brecken Rivara, to demonstrate.
Pretty amazing, huh? So am I saying I can do that? Hell no! I'm just a beginning hooper. Which leads me to why I'm doing this. I've been a beginning hooper, a wannabe hooper, a person-who-has-a-hoop-and-pulls-it-out-once-every-six-months kind of hooper, for longer than I'd care to admit. I've also been carrying around a lot of extra weight, with all the health problems that entails, for even longer than I've been a wannabe hooper.
It's time for all of that to change.
When I saw what people like Brecken are capable of, I was inspired. When I saw that you can combine fire (yes, live flames!) with hooping, I knew it was something I just had to learn to do. I bought myself a starter hoop and two instructional DVDs, and had every intention of having hooping become the form of exercise I was too excited about to put down.
The road to the couch is paved with good intentions. The road to physical fitness is paved with work--even if that work wears a shiny hoop and jams to your favorite music. And the road to mastering any artform, including hoopdance, is paved with lots and lots of practice.
Enter the 10,000 drops challenge. I am going to hoop until I drop the hoop, again, and again, and again. I'm going to track every drop until I've dropped the hoop 10,000 times. By the end of it all, I may not be a pro hooper or a physical trainer. But I'm willing to bet I'll be a good bit healthier, happier, and better at hooping than I am right now. I'm going to use this blog to document and share my journey, and inspire myself to keep going.
Here are my ground rules for this journey:
1) There is no quota. There's no daily hoop number I have to hit, and some days I may not hoop at all. That's allowed. All that matters is that no matter what, I pick up the hoop again, and keep hooping, until I've dropped 10,000 times.
2) Any hooping is progress, and will be celebrated as such. I'm embracing the positive and letting go of the negative.
3) Hooping matters more than posting. As long as I'm recording drops for the day, I'm not going to stress myself out about posting entries. But I will use this blog as a source of inspiration, motivation, and encouragement.
So here I go! Since I began counting, at 7:00pm today, I have dropped the hoop 10 times. Only 9,990 to go!
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