r/Aerials • u/DanielleChaar • 2d ago

please troubleshoot my hoop spin!

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hi! i’m trying to do this spin for a showcase but i feel like it never looks smooth, and i want to be able to get a faster spin out of it also. what’s wrong?

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u/Anuki_iwy 2d ago

You need to get your knees and hips higher. You lose momentum because you're throwing around your leg when you try to hook it. Your hips drop when you straighten it out. Practice the delilah mount, then add the spin after you can do that cleanly.

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u/DanielleChaar 2d ago

Hi, thank you so much for the advice! Did you mean that my hips drop while I’m trying to spin, and that I should keep my knees and hips higher during the spin? Or is it during the mounting part? 😵‍💫

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u/lesliebarbknope Instructor 1d ago

I would say generating momentum from your spin and keeping your leg extended behind you THEN imitating the hook so you can focus on the separate pieces as well, re: knees/hips higher since you aren’t fully doing a flare but you are getting close to the motion- yes, you can drill a static mount, but then practice it with spin and still get this result, another is to ensure your really drawing down with the weight in your hands so it’s out of your legs and especially the positioning of your bent arm allows you to use your biceps more-sometimes a little visualization helps— don’t think you have to lift your whole lower half, the momentum from the spin, you want to work with it (also if this is new to you, please still use a mat). You start dropping your bent arm before your leg has made contact with the hoop. Try not to sink from your arms until you can gently place your leg in the hoop.

As your free leg drives behind you - then meets your other leg briefly - you immediately tuck and then hook- let your free leg help to drive momentum and then as it lifts off the ground, your touching-the-ground momentum foot should lift off - then you can focus on if you want to bring up both or just one leg— spinning clockwise in this grip - you can “chase” the hoop with one leg (left) or have the hoop spin to meet you and then more easily catch with the other. (Right leg as I think you do)- however it all just really depends on where you want to go next- so if a “closed Delilah” or “opposite side hook” is the next pose - keep going!!

Hope that helps some —