Without our past then how would we understand our future and grow from what we have learned? I want to share this history to give others to help build the passion for hula hooping and to also help people understand why poeple hula hoop. I recieved this information from http://www.hulahooping.com/hoop-history.html .
Many people may think that hula hooping began when Wham-O mass produced the hula hoop in 1958. This is not true. Hula hooping has been dated back to around 500 BC. The hoops back then were made from organic materials such as grapevines and grass.
The common way children would play with the hoops was rolling them with a stick and the common way we know around the waist. Hooping spread to Britian around the fourteenth century where they became very liked. Some back problems and heart conditions durring this time were linked to hula hooping.
British sailors were the ones who came up with the name "Hula Hoop" around 1800 after watching hula dancers in Hawaii. They believed the dance and the way people hula hoop had a lot of the same movements.
Native American Indians used hula hooping to tell stories by dancing with them. They also used multiple hoops to form the shapes of different animals on their bodies such as birds, butterflies, or snakes. The dance style was very fast. Hoops had a symbolic meaning to the Native Americans. The circle meant the circle of life. This was around the 1400's.
Today there are still hoop dancing competitions that are Native American styled. Australia also got into hula hooping in the 50's. Toltoys produced bamboo hoops for Australia but they soon realized that they could not keep up with demand. They began producing the plastic hoop.
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