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Version 1.5 – Contents – Introduction – What is Mills Mess? – The Eight Base Patterns – Sebs Mess – Learning Patterns with Pretzel Hand – Butterfly Messes – Hectic Messes – Siteswaps – Mills Mess Variations – Acknowledgements – Appendix A: List of Patterns – Appendix B: Building Ingenious Messes From Hulking Windmills –…

Double Hoop Fountains Here are some double hoop fountain animations for your viewing edification. The animation doesn’t show some aspects of the pattern but is a simplification to show roughly what shapes are being made. Understanding the shapes makes it easier to perform the patterns. The animation doesn’t show that the hoops go both in…

Here is a list of my favorite juggling/object manipulation scenes in movies. For them to count they have to be in a feature length movie, the juggling has to be center stage and it has to be real, not some dodgy CGI. The order is not necessarily based on the quality of the juggling but it…

Every mover imagines themselves moving in their mind’s eye. Whether it be hooping, dancing, yoga poses, circus skills, etc. Sometimes I find myself imagining myself doing hoop tricks that I can’t do yet. I went through this a lot when I started learning Lyra as well. My brain could see me doing movements but my…

Everyone’s tried to hula hoop before, right? Can you imagine how good you’d get if you dedicated years of your life to it? Well the people in this post have done just that. Here are my top ten favorite/most impressive things I’ve ever seen done with hoops (in no particular order). Some are a specific trick…