1. While spinning the lasso above your head with a relaxed open hand and let the hoop roll around your hand with full control (replacing the open and close hand motion) . Guide the hoop down and across your body doing nothing different except lowering the hand with the hoop resting on the hand’s side. You will notice it takes one revolution for the hoop to travel down.
2. At the same time as bringing the hoop down on your hand (right hand for anti-clockwise hoopers and left for clockwise) the opposite hand comes up from the side and through the hoop to a straight position in the air. It is as though you are almost crossing hands as they sweep in opposite directions in a fluid motion.
3. Once you have guided the hoop to waist height, whip it onto your body by rolling your wrist inward so the palm faces slightly outward. The hoop is still resting on the side of your hand. You are going to give the hoop some extra vavavoom! as you whip it around your body. Ideally it should land flat and fast so that you need not hoop at all but simply stand nice and straight with the hoop spinning freely around your waist.
Tips to nail the move:
> You must lower your hand
> Learn to let go
> Don’t drop the hoop or hold the hoop but guide the hoop!
> Close your eyes to feel it rather than think about it
> Count it in on 4 so that you don’t turn the trick into psychological torment
> Learn to drill yourself on 4, removing the care-factor
> Remember that there are three elements to this trick that all happen in sequence
> Slow or fast lassos are both OK – slow to begin with is often better
> Remember that you are propelling the hoop in the direction of its orbit
> Make sure your lasso is going in the same direction as your natural ‘current’.
A current is a term used for the direction you hoop in
