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What This Performer Does With Hoops is Astonishing

For Irina Akimova , that skill is the hula hoop. With incredible grace and control, she embodies that special quality that only comes with unending practice and a genuine mastery of the field. A remarkable performance!

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The Master of Hoops - Terrific Performance!

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Watch This Master of Hoops in Smooth Action!

He began juggling with hoops and sticks by age 9, and together with his father, created his own unique stick-tricks. This act's music has been specially composed, and Valeri did not disappoint with skilled showmanship, wowing the audience with his incredible dexterity.

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Incredible Acrobatic Performance With Hoop

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This Performer Glides Through the Air With Ease...

Using her hoop, she has managed to charm her way into many a heart, and always has something fresh and interesting to show us. Enjoy one of her most iconic routines and witness her immense grace.

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Circular Motion - Incredible Performance!

performance, art, dance, dancer, hoop Incredible One Man Dance Performance

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Magical Art Forms That Are All About Staying In Motion

This art in motion tricks includes incredible juggling, hula hoop, and even fire performance skills. It all takes tremendous talent and is absolutely mesmerizing to watch.

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This Performance Combines Balance, Art and Skill!

Alla Klishta from Odessa astounds judges of Ukraine's Got Talent with a hula hoop show that combines art, dance and quite a bit of acrobatic skill. I love the incredible control and precise movement that make her performance. This Performance Combines Balance, Art and Skill!

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Acrobats From China Perform Impossible Feats

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This Impossible Acrobatic Performance Will Blow Your Mind

From a mind-blowing contortionist to a team of unbelievable acrobats jumping through hoops stacked over ten feet high, these artistic performers push the limits of what we ever believed people were capable of doing.

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8 Old-Fashioned Ways to Describe Happiness You'll Love

These Bygone Terms for ‘Happy’ Need to Be Brought Back

Cock-A-Hoop Meaning: Triumphantly and obviously pleased; usually for an achievement This adjective comes from the 16th-century phrase " to set cock a hoop, to set (the) cock on (the) hoop ". Apparently, this meant to turn on the tap and let the liquor flow.

Riddles & Quizzes

Take Our Test: Can You Pass the US Citizenship Test?

In order to achieve that goal, one of the hoops they must jump through is to pass the citizenship test - a test that quizzes you about the United States and its systems. Think you can do well on this quiz? Try your luck!

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7 Fun Activities of the Past That Would Be Absurd Today

Some Pastimes of Past Eras Were As Weird As Can Be...

Hoop rolling Hoop rolling has been a thing since the time of the Ancient Greeks, and numerous variations also took hold in Europe, China, America, and Africa. The most popular version involved throwing up a hoop in the air with a stick and catching it with the same stick.

Sports

It Requires Serious Skills to Make Such Basketball Shots

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These People Pulled Off Incredible Basketball Shots

Getting the ball into a hoop requires plenty of skill. But these talented youngsters seem to have mastered the art of slam dunks. Watch them pull off some crazy and impossible shots in a wide variety of ways in this video.

Nature

These Record-Breaking Dogs Will Amaze You!

The Quickest 10-Hoop Canine Slalom Plenty of dog shows hold competitions where dogs have to jump through hoops or slalom around stakes, but Neo the border collie holds the Guinness World Record for doing both at once in the fastest time possible.

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Wow! These Record-Breaking Dogs Are Incredibly Talented

The Quickest 10-Hoop Canine Slalom Plenty of dog shows hold competitions where dogs have to jump through hoops or slalom around stakes, but Neo the border collie holds the Guinness World Record for doing both at once in the fastest time possible.

Tips, Life Hacks and DIY

8 Running Mistakes Most of Us Make

“If you don’t take a couple of minutes to stretch or warm up before a run, you’re increasing your chances of getting injured,” says Hoop. 4. Not Breathing Properly Breathing comes naturally to all of us, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that you know how to breathe to best facilitate your run.

Tips, Life Hacks and DIY

7 Cute Button DIYs You Can Do With the Whole Family

Supplies: Light fabric - burlap or felt in any light shade you want Old buttons Needle and thread Scissors Pencil A simple clock mechanism An embroidery hoop Battery How to: 1. Place the fabric in the embroidery hoop, make sure to stretch the fabric so that the front part is not loose. 2.

Humor

This Funny Short Film Shows How Engineers Play Basketball

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How Engineers Play Basketball - Award Winning Short Film

Throwing a basketball into the hoop isn’t easy. It requires great skill and smarts to find the right angle. Well, you can learn the art of tossing the ball into the basket with perfection from this janitor. This 6-minute video is an award-winning short film named “3x3.”

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WOW! These Phenomenal Basketball Shots Were Unintentional!

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15 of the Most EXTRAORDINARY Shots in Basketball History

Getting a basketball through the hoop isn’t as easy as it looks if you have ever played the game. It requires a lot of practice and patience to get the angle and accuracy right. However, sometimes players can surprise us by pulling off some of the most extraordinary shots.

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These DIY Fixes are Ridiculous But Oddly Impressive

15 Ingenious Makeshift Solutions for Everyday Problems

From making a homemade roller coaster to fashioning a basketball hoop out of PVC pipes, these DIY fixes might appear unusual, absurd, or ridiculous, but they sure are impressive. More importantly, they get the job done.

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Joke: Calling Up the Circus

I can hula hoop for like 30 seconds straight!” “Sir, I really don’t think you understand what the concept of a cir...” “No, please, I... I... I can jump on one leg while saying the alphabet backward!” “...” “...” “Goodbye, sir.” She hangs up the phone.

Design & Photography

These Vintage Photos Shed Light on Life in the Early 1900s

James Naismith, the creator of basketball, with this wife, shooting hoops. Source 9. A graduation ceremony held in 1895. Source 10. An Iranian woman. This photo was taken in 1960. Source 11. Margaret Hamilton, the principal software engineer for NASA, 1969. Source 12.

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Clueless Moms Were Also Present In the 1950s...

Mom, You Haven't Got the Terminology Right (Funny Joke)

A moment later, Peggy Sue came down the stairs looking pretty as a picture wearing a pink blouse and a hoop skirt, and with her hair tied back in a bouncy ponytail. She greeted Fred. "Have fun, kids," the mother said as they left.

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These 24 Fascinating Photographs Will Surprise & Amaze You

woman killing herself, Brazil A Map of car bomb attacks in Baghdad since 2003 Cave painting of lions in France - the oldest in the world at 32,000 years This man donated his body (and his pet's) to medical science Albert Einstein teaching a class [related_articles] When a gorilla met a lizard Hula-hooping

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The Guinness Records Broke in 2013!

University in Thailand, over 5,000 people broke the world record for largest group of "hula hooping". Breaking the Guinness World Record for largest national flag in the world, with dimensions of 349.4 at 226.9 meters.

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21 Mesmerizing Photos to Capture Your Imagination

Some Photos Just Have to Be Seen to Be Believed...

An amazing skirt or a hula-hoop full of LEDs? 12. Pac-Man is alive and well! 13. Just a small patch of rain to report. 14. This dog has a caricature of its face on its ear! 15. A seagull shows the way to these fighter jets. 16.

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