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If you're not acquainted with aerial hoop dancing, here's a brief recap. Imagine being suspended in the air. But, instead of hanging around, you're spinning in infinite circles above the ground and moving into contortionist-like poses. Inside of a hula-hoop. All the while, you're looking flawless, no doubt. Obviously we couldn't resist suiting up and trying it ourselves. And, we sent our own style director Connie Wang over to Body and Pole to give aerial dancing a whirl.

Watch on to see Connie conquer the hoop. We won't give the end away β€” we'll let those major biceps (and new calluses, ouch!) do the talking.
Transcript
00:03Does this look good? I don't think I'm doing this right.
00:11Hi, welcome to Refinery29. This is Connie for ConnieCam and today I'm at body and pool with
00:16Elena who's gonna explain why we're dangling a thousand feet from the ground. It's like three.
00:22So what is this? This is an aerial hoop apparatus and you are going to learn to
00:29perform on it. It's gonna be it's gonna be awesome and not you know awkward and
00:33petrifying. You're gonna be fantastic. Okay, let's get started. Now, how do I get down?
00:49If you have never seen an aerial hoop before or touched one, yay! Today is your chance.
00:59Getting into the hoop and getting out of the hoop, it's not easy. You always want to hold the hoop
01:04with
01:04your pointer and thumb touching. Never like this. Safe thumbs, right? You're gonna have
01:09your biceps nice and tight, shoulders roll back. From here, you must make sure that
01:13you're gonna contract your body. Tuck in and then extend, roll back. My hips are
01:18right over my shoulders and I'm gonna tuck. From here, you're gonna try to extend your
01:23legs straight into a pipe as much as you can. Nice. Beautiful. And straighten your
01:28legs all the way up to the hoop and bend. Awesome. I love it. Yay! Perfect. From here,
01:37you're gonna take a little bit of momentum, use a little bit of abs. You're gonna swing
01:41on up and reach for the hoop grabbing towards your face. If you can't reach high
01:45enough, you are going to pull up and slide. Good. From here, bring your shoulders back,
01:49bring your chest up, chest up, and slide. Have you done this before? Yay!
01:55This is a sassy move. Perfect. Super sassy. Nice long neck, booty back. Yes! I love it!
02:01We're even gonna take our first spin. I don't know if you can see this face. This is great.
02:04Ta-da! You can wave to your friends if you want. How you doing?
02:09Beautiful job! Yes! I love it! Poor thing. It's really cute. This is crazy looking. I know.
02:19So we're out of time, but otherwise we would set the hoop on fire. Yeah, totally. That's the next step.
02:23Thank you so much for the class. Thank you, everyone. You did such a great job, everyone. It's beautiful.
02:27I feel this. I think it's a bicep. Oh, it hurts a little bit. I feel these. These are calluses.
02:33Let's do a little callus kiss. Bye, everyone. See you next time on Refinery. How long do I have to
02:38stay up here?
02:41Oh, are those donuts?
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