Archive for December, 2013

• Episode 10 – Antonio Gomez and 10 Years of the Bay Area Hoopers

  Date: 2013.12.31 | Category: PODCAST! | Response: 0

  Hello hoopers, hoopers in the making and hooper lovers!

  I met my goal!!! I got my tenth episode done before the new year!! My next goal is to make this podcast professional. What does that mean? It means a simple and redesigned website, sponsors, advertisers, maybe even some fun prizes. I want to bring hoopers from around the world to your ears and hearts. If you’re interested in helping me make this a reality and bring it to the masses in a more polished formed, you can reach me at hoopanista (at) hulahoopla (dot) com. Thanks!

  On this episode – EPISODE 10!! – I talk with Antonio Gomez of the San Francisco Bay Area Hoopers, or BAH. And I saved this one, my 10th episode to honor BAH’s 10th Anniversary! So cool. I haven’t even known about hooping, as I’ve come to know it, for 10 years!!

  

  Antonio Gomez

   

  I met Antonio when I came to my first BAH hoop jam in December of 2012 and felt an immediate connection. I had just started coming down to the Bay Area to visit my long-distance fella and wanted to meet hoopers in area. Headed over from East Bay to Inner Space in San Francisco and I have to admit I was pretty nervous, sort like I was on someone else’s turf. Aren’t we our own worst enemy?! I was welcomed with open arms and had a blast. My guy came along and hooped with me!

   

  If you’re ever in the Bay Area, check out BAH’s weekly indoor hoop jam. Right now going into 2014 it’s every Sunday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm at Inner Mission, 2050 Bryant Street in San Francisco. All experience levels welcome and kick in some cash to support the group.

  I’m putting this episode out while I’m down in the Bay Area for Christmas and the New Year and will indeed be heading to a BAH hoop jam. Can’t wait!

  Weekly Indoor Hoop Jam
  Every Sunday 1pm-3pm
  Inner Mission
  2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco

  Bay Area Hoopers
  http://www.bayareahoopers.org

  Article on Bay Area Hoopers from Hooping.org
  http://www.hooping.org/2013/05/bay-area-hoopers-celebrates-ten-years/

  Facebook Group
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/bayareahoopers/

  Bay Area Hoopers Documentary by Victor “Supervictorio” Ibarra

   

  

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• Episode 9 – Beth Lavinder!

  Date: 2013.12.23 | Category: PODCAST! | Response: 0

  Hello hoopers, hoopers in the making and hooper lovers!

  OK. I have got to stop bitching about my voice recorder. It’s actually pretty cool. It’s operator error – it’s all me. So a big thank you goes out to my friend Joel again for loaning it to me!

  

  This is Episode 9. I had a fortuitous meeting with Beth Lavinder, of all places, at the last indoor hoop jam of the season for the Bay Area Hoopers in San Francisco! I was visiting the Bay Area and she was on her way to teach at Jaguar Mary’s Sacred Circularities in Bali.

  She told me she’s not really comfortable about talking about herself. I feel pretty lucky. She opened up and shared so much about herself and her hoop journey starting out in Carrboro, North Carolina seeing Vivian (Spiral) for the first time, hooping with Julia Hartsell and Baxter and her experience with The Hoop Path.

   

  

  Beth Lavinder

  Beth is part of my hoop journey.  The first time I saw her was at the Northwest Hoop Gathering in Bend, Oregon, April 2009.  I walked into the big gym where the event was taking place and saw sooooooo many hoopers doing incredible things!!  And Beth was one of them.  She was rolling her hoop up her body with her hair flying.  So beautiful.  I saw her again at Hoop Convergence in North Carolina in 2010 and then we were actually able to sit down and talk at Hoopcamp in Santa Cruz in 2010.  This is an incredible lady and an inspirational hooper.

   

  We really do have an amazing community.  I hope to introduce you to so many of its members.

  Next episode is the 10th!  And it is in honor of the Bay Area Hoopers’ 10th Anniversary.

  Happy Hooping!

  Beth Lavinder Interview with Hooping.org
  

  Sacred Circularities

  The Hoop Path

  Julia Hartsell

  Vivian (Spiral)

  Hoopcamp

  Hoop Convergence

  

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