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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.
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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 Elena, who's going
00:17to explain why we're dangling a thousand feet from the ground.
00:20It's like three. It's okay.
00:22So what is this?
00:23This is an aerial hoop apparatus, and you are going to learn to perform on it.
00:30It's going to be awesome and not awkward and petrifying. You're going to be fantastic.
00:36Okay, 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.
00:55Woo! Yes! Beautiful!
00:59Getting into the hoop and getting out of the hoop, it's not easy.
01:03You always want to hold the hoop with your pointer and thumb touching. Never like this. Safe thumbs, right?
01:08You're going to have your biceps nice and tight, shoulders roll back.
01:11From here, you must make sure that you're going to contract your body.
01:15Tuck in, and then extend, roll back. My hips are right over my shoulders, and I'm going to tuck.
01:21From here, you're going to try to extend your legs straight into a pipe as much as you can.
01:25Nice! Beautiful! And straighten your legs all the way up to the hoop, and bend.
01:30Awesome! I love it!
01:33Yay! Perfect!
01:35From here, you're going to take a little bit of momentum, use a little bit of abs.
01:40You're going to swing on up and reach for the hoop, grabbing towards your face.
01:44If you can't reach high enough, you are going to pull up and slide.
01:47Good. From here, bring your shoulders back, bring your chest up, chest up and slide.
01:52Have you done this before? Yay!
01:55This is a sassy move.
01:56Perfect! Super sassy. Nice long neck, booty back.
01:59Yes! I love it!
02:01We're even going to take our first spin.
02:03I don't know if you want to see this face.
02:03This is great!
02:04Ta-da!
02:04You can wave to your friends if you want.
02:07How you doing?
02:08Yeah!
02:09Beautiful job!
02:11Yes! I love it!
02:14Poor thing!
02:16It's really cute.
02:17This is crazy looking.
02:19So we're out of time, but otherwise we'd set the hoop on fire.
02:22Yeah, totally. That's the next step.
02:23Thank you so much for the podcast.
02:24You did such a great job, everyone.
02:26It was beautiful.
02:27I feel this.
02:28I think it's a bicep.
02:29Oh, it hurts a little bit.
02:31I feel these.
02:31These are calluses.
02:33Let's do a little callus kiss.
02:35Bye, everyone.
02:35See you next time on Refinery.
02:38How long do I have to stay up here?
02:41Oh, are those donuts?

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