Last Saturday, a dear friend and I attended a hooping workshop at Dance Central. I was astounded to learn that apparently my rhythmic hoop-skills are still lurking somewhere in my muscle memory because I found it surprisingly easy to do the hand-tricks. Unfortunately, I was not equally at home with the waist-hooping which is what I was there to learn! Happily I can report that I did manage to do it by the end of the two hours if only for short bursts. Anyhoo, the next day I was so sore (particularly my poor bruised and swollen hands) which really inspired me to continue with the activity. I was loathe to spend seventy odd dollars on two hoops so I decided to make my own. It's actually very simple to do once you have the materials but finding the materials is proving to be nigh on impossible. Here are the original instructions: http://www.jasonunbound.com/hoops.html
First I bought the wrong piping after a man from Bunnings gave me a bum steer on the Kpa to Psi conversion so now I have ten metres of irrigation tubing with no irrigation system.
The next day I returned and bought the correct type, blue-stripe poly pipe. Yay! I thought, I'm only hours away from hooping happiness. I was wrong.
Blue-stripe poly pipe only comes in two sizes that are hoop-able: 20mm and 25mm. These measurements refer to the outside measurement. The problem is that the only internal connectors that are available for joining poly pipe are designed for the weaker pipes and are based on their inside measurement. So 19mm connectors *don't* fit 20mm pipes because they are too big.
First I bought the wrong piping after a man from Bunnings gave me a bum steer on the Kpa to Psi conversion so now I have ten metres of irrigation tubing with no irrigation system.
The next day I returned and bought the correct type, blue-stripe poly pipe. Yay! I thought, I'm only hours away from hooping happiness. I was wrong.
Blue-stripe poly pipe only comes in two sizes that are hoop-able: 20mm and 25mm. These measurements refer to the outside measurement. The problem is that the only internal connectors that are available for joining poly pipe are designed for the weaker pipes and are based on their inside measurement. So 19mm connectors *don't* fit 20mm pipes because they are too big.
See? They are exactly the same size!The next size down is 15mm which is far too small. Even when I tried to put the 19mm fitting into the 25mm it doesn't work because it is too big:
Wibble wobble wibble wobble...I have had no luck with any of the professionals who sell these items as they can only see solutions that revolve around the pipe's original use. I have, in desperation, ended up using dowel and glue but I'm not happy with the result. I'm frustrated and disappointed.
And to top it all off, I've probably spent the seventy dollars that two hoops would have cost me in materials - typical...
And to top it all off, I've probably spent the seventy dollars that two hoops would have cost me in materials - typical...
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