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Finally the website is done!

7/30/2012

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Hello! 

My name is Shiho Sparkle Hooper. I have a passion for hula hoop dance.

So finally the website is done! For the last 4 months, this has been my project as I have dreamed to write of my hoop journey. I am very excited to share my dream, my thoughts, my passion and my excitement here. I hope it helps and brings energy and happiness to all of you who are interested.

I want to talk about the one big reason why the hoop is so fascinating to me. There are many reasons why I love hooping, but one of the biggest reasons why I am so fascinated by the hoop is that the hoop connects people. When I started to hoop, I realised it was so much easier to make friends and to get closer. Even though I am overseas, where people are from different countries or various ages... even though I don't know them at all, we can get closer easier and faster when I start to talk about hooping. This is how it is if you have a hobby, passion or favorite thing -  you can easily get along with someone.

I have studied in the U.S for 5 and half years for university. The place I was staying in is located at Mid-Western; Kansas. There, some people are very conservative. It was hard for me to make friends at first in this place. If you have studied overseas, or you have stayed in in foreign country, maybe you have had a similar experience.

However, when I have started playing with the hula-hoop, I started to make good friends so quickly and easily. Before doing hoop dance, I had to think about what I was going to talk  about with strangers. If you meet someone for the first time, what are you going to
talk about? "What is your name?" "How old are you?" "Where are you from?" "What is today’s weather?" Yes, that is the regular conversation template. 

But I ask hoopers many questions.... "how long have you been hooping for? " "Do you know this trick?" " Have you ever been to hoop camp before? " "Who is your favorite hooper? " "Which size is your hoop?" "Woow!  That tape (on a hoop) is so cute!" etc...

Yes, there are so many things to talk about. You don’t have to think about creating the topic. It comes so naturally to ask a lot of questions that interests others. 
 
This is a miracle!

Also, people talk to me more than before I started to hoop. If I have hoops with me on the street or a bus or train, people talk to me more.  When practicing hooping at the park, kids come to talk with me, take photos, shoot video... even a TV guy asked me to film my hooping... I have even been asked out on dates.

This is also a miracle!

I didn’t feel talented before I started hooping. I didn’t have any special focus or passion in life. The hoop brought me confidence and happiness. Hooping makes me myself. I am so grateful to hace found hula-hoop dance. For me the hoop is not a regular big polyethylene ring, the hula-hoop is a MAGICAL and MIRACLE big ring which connects people to people and me to myself.


はじめまして!SHIHO です。フープダンスに情熱をかけける夢見る旅人です。

フープについての本を書こうと決めてから4ヶ月を経て、やっとウェブサイトが完成しました!!このウェブサイトでは、自分の夢や、情熱、楽しさを伝えていければなって思っています。そして、読んで下さった人達の何か力になったり、元気がでるようなそんな想いを書き連なっていきたいと思っています。

さっそくですが、それではHOOPの魅力について書きます。
HOOPについての魅力は果てしないのですが、そのうちの一つに友達や知り合いができやすいということがあります。

海外に行っても、外国人でも、年齢がめちゃめちゃ離れていても、全然知らない人なのに、ひとたび一緒にHOOPしたり、HOOPの話をするとめちゃめちゃうちとけます。これは共通の趣味を持っていると、ひとたび気が合うというあの法則です!

私はアメリカの大学に5年半留学していた経験があるのですが、カンザスという田舎町だったせいもあってか、現地の友達をつくるのがとってもとってもとっても大変でした。留学経験がある人はそんな想いをしたことがあるのではないでしょうか??

しかし、HOOPをはじめてからは超高速でめちゃめちゃ仲のよい友達を作ることができるようになりました。今まで知らない人と話すとしても、まずはどんな話をするかが問題でした。あなたなら、初めて会った人に何を話しますか?

名前は?年齢は?仕事は?出身地は?今日の天気は??

これは一つの典型的会話の例ですが、、

私はHOOP仲間には、、HOOP歴は?このトリック知っている??HOOP CAMPに行ったことある??どのサイズのHOOP使っている??そのテープ(HOOPに巻いている)かわいいね。

そうです。確実に話題は増えます。というか、無理やり話題を作り出さなくっても聞きたいことがたくさん、会話がどんどんどんどんどんどん思い浮かぶのです!!

これはミラクルです。

そして、街を歩いていても声をかけられる率が高くなりました。
公園で練習していても、子供がよってきたり、写真をとらせてと言ってくれたり、テレビの撮影をお願いされたり、ナンパされたりもします。

これもミラクルです。

HOOPは何もなかった自分に自信を与えてくれました。
HOOPに出会えて、感謝の気持ちでいっぱいです。
自分にとってのHOOPはただのポリエステルのかたまりの大きい輪っかではなく、人と人とをなげてくれる魔法の輪なのです!! 
3 Comments
Trent link
8/9/2012 01:24:19 pm

You're awesome, Shiho! It was awesome meeting you way down south. The trip to Antarctica wouldn't have been the same without you. Keep doing what you're doing!

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chika link
7/3/2013 07:52:12 pm

hi!! i didn't know there is jap hooper from japan!!! where are you now? i want to meet you!! chika

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Shiho
7/3/2013 10:51:30 pm

Chika san,
Thanks for your comment. I am still in Sydney and will stay here till end of the year for sure. Where are you?? I would love to meet you too!!!

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    Shiho Sparkle Hooper is a professional hula-hoop dancer in Sydney, Australia.  She learned hulahoop during a world trip on Peace Boat 2010. Since then she has been hooping around the world. Also, she has  known as a polar hula-hooper to hoop in Antarctica having workshop or performance with the passenger. 

    Shiho は、シドニーで活躍中のフラフープダンサーです。2010年、NGO PEACE BOATが主催する『地球一周の船旅』に乗船。88日間で世界一周し、船内で習ったフープダンスに魅了される。それ以来世界各地でフープを回し。2012年から毎年乗船している、南極クルーズでは、ワークショップやパフォーマンスをする、ポーラーフーパーとしても知られている。

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