1. It’s after Labor Day and Burning Man and Hoop Camp, which all take place in September. 

2. It’s after school has begun and people are ready to learn again.

3. It’s on a Saturday, in the lovely autumn when you can make hoops the colors of the changing leaves.

4. It’s before any major international holidays.

5. October is a 10 – a person and a hoop.  If you look at things like many of us do. 

So here are the dates for 2012 through 2020.  Love  to you all.

Wed 12/12/12

The first Saturday of October:

10/5/13

10/4/14

10/3/15

10/1/16

10/7/17

10/6/18

10/5/19

10/3/20

So here are the top suggestions for the date.  Please respect the whole planet.  You never know if you will be moving to South America, South Africa or New South Wales.  Also, consider the January dates very carefully, since 12/12/12 is the next one, do we really want a WHD one month later and indoors unless you live south of the equator?  March 14 is Pi Day, and also Albert Einstein’s birthday.  Coincidence?  Well, it’s also cold in most of the northern hemisphere.  8/8 is when all of Europe goes on vacation and people aren’t really planning big events.  October is autumn and spring.  People are returning to school, ready to learn to tricks, skills, work-outs and though, in 2016, if 10/10 wins, we will have to share that date with Canada’s Thanksgiving.  We could always make it the first Saturday of October and the date will change, but it will always be a Saturday in nice weather and well, it has 2 hoops next to 2 people.

So vote.  Please vote for your favorite choice once and one time only.  We have powers that block you from multiple voting anyway.    The polls end on 12/10 and I will announce the future dates of World Hoop Day on 12/12/11.  Thank you for your time.

I truly appreciate the time and thoughts put into this! I’m so grateful that you are giving WHD 2013 some deep thought. A splendid soul even gave ne dates through 2049.

Keep ‘em coming and I’m going to Spreadsheet tally them and let the world vote very soon. Mean time Happy Thanksgiving Prep. Love ya, Annie O

For the next week, I am asking you to submit your ideal date choice for 2013 and beyond.  Think globally.  Spring and Fall are equally pleasant seasons and opposite on either side of the globe.  While summer may be a great time to hoop outside, it’s only fabulous in one hemisphere.  Some suggestions I have already been given are 3.14 for Pi.  Also, I’ve been asked to make it 1/3/13 and 1/4/14 and so on.  Others have suggested two WHDays a year, summer for both sides of the planet.  Still more suggestions are the 2nd Saturday of one month and 1/13/13 and then 2/14/14.

Think about it, but don’t think too much and send me your ideas.  By 11/21/12, we will tally the top five suggestions and have a vote.  The final dates will be revealed on 12/12/11.  Yes I love numbers and there is a reason a circle is infinitely 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288….

UPDATE:
Thank you all for your thoughtful submissions!
We are preparing for the final voting process and will keep you posted.

Are you ready for the global UNITY of the hula hoop on 11-11-11.  Come and celebrate from 11:00AM  to 1pm at Ben Breman Park off S. Picket St , parking, music,  vendors, Alexandria Drum circle, Pois, jugglers, spinners and hoopers….Hoop competitions, hoop circle, hoop demos, hoop donations. This year I’m representing Hooping.org as an Ambassador, forAlexandria, VA.  I’m sending hoops to Central America; your donations will be appreciated for those undeserved  families and kids.

Can’t make it that day and time?, I’ll accommodate a donation pick up.

Hoop is good! Read more here.

Get into the circle, give happiness

Please add your event to OneDayOnEarth.org so we can include all videos into this amazing documentary. Peace, Namaste, Shalom.

Annie O-originator of WHD

Aaron Smith started the discussion “My Flow Through Life and the Hoop” in the group Hooping Challenges on Hoop City – Hooping Community – a space for hoopers.

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“I hope it’s not too late to post our story, but I put a lot of thought into whether or not I wanted to write about my story or not. Today is Halloween, a time where people learn to face their fears, and well…I need to learn to live me life without so much fear. Over the past year I’ve realized just how much hooping and flow has gotten rid of some of those fears…This is my story.

Today, I am a senior in high school. It’s supposed to be the best days of our lives filled with many memories. However, I look at it as a final count down. Why you might ask? Well to begin, my transition from 8th grad to 9th grade was quite interesting. I didn’t play football or any sports honestly. I went to school and came home, not many activities at all. I had a hard time fitting in with the guys so I tried to surround myself with things that made me for masculine. So I got into heavy metal joined a band just to try to cover up those feelings of not being one of the guys…little did I know that there was more to it than that.

Sophomore year came and all my friends had dates to homecoming and were boyfriend and girlfriend. I realized that was not for me. I soon realized that the norms that were taught to me as a child were not going to be lived out by me. I realized during those years that I am gay. For that whole time I tried to make myself “more masculine” by hiding behind things that made people afraid of me because I came off as the tough guy. Later during that year I had my first relationship. It was wonderful, I finally had someone who I could relate with and someone to talk to. My parents are very religious and conservative people.

Abut 3 months into that relationship my mom confronted me. Having no idea about my sexuality asked me “Why did I hear John call you babe?”. She didn’t expect anything bad from it, she thought there was no way her baby boy could be gay. But she was wrong, I told her the truth and sometimes I wonder what things would be like if I didn’t. She was completely silent the rest of the day, not a word. At the end of the day she told me “You have until the weekend to tell your father, or I will do it for you.” That didn’t happen, she told him without me knowing. That entire month she told me things I can’t erase. She said I was going to hell, and that I didn’t deserve to be a father. She even said that there had to be something hormonally wrong with me so she was going to have me get blood work done, instead she sent me to a counselor. I went to my therapy sessions and she told me there was nothing wrong with me and after three sessions she told me I never had to come back. After that my mom forced me to drop the relationship. Ever since that day, an entire 20 months my mom hasn’t brought up the word gay. She acts as though nothing happened. Everytime there is a school dance or prom she asks what girl I am going with and asks me if she is pretty. It breaks my heart. And sometime I have to think whether I am going to have to live my life without my family.

Since, then I decided that it was impossible for me to date until after high school. I realized that it was going to be a long hard road but I wouldn’t allow myself to fall into pity. My junior year was coming up and I had an entire summer ahead of me. So I decided I would learn sometime and become the most interesting person in the world, so that one day I could go on a first date with someone and name a list of things that would make a man fall in love with me.

So one day I was watching a video of my favorite band’s live performance. This band is called Blood on the Dance Floor, and one of the lead singers, Jayy Von Monroe, got this LED hula hoop out and he just rocked it! I loved it, and knowing that Jayy was also a gay man made him an inspiration to me. So I told myself “If he can do it, I can do it. If a little 5 year old girl can hula hoop, so can I.” And I have been addicted ever since.

Through hooping I had opened up. I was no longer the “scary death metal kid”. I had nothing to hide behind; I finally had something I could be proud of. Today, I am playing with fire and planning on traveling the US performing at shows and festivals. If I would have looked back 20 months ago and knew that this would happen I would say shut up! Today, I am proud of myself. Even though my parents my not like that I am a gay man, I know that my friends love me and that someone will love me for who I am and for what I do. I have become such a better person. I am involved with the community teaching others how to hoop. And I love the people I have met. They are the most loving and open group of people I have been around. Although they don’t know I am gay I know that I can be comfortable around them and not have to hide.

This year is a year of goodbyes and to go out with a bang. I will face my fears and make life changing decisions. My senior year will a life changing moment. Without hooping I wouldn’t be the confident young man that I am. And I know that things will change. Hooping has proved that to me…things do change, things do get better. That is what hooping has done for me.”

Friday: Location SF TBA /  Time 4:30-8:30pm

Saturday: Location Oakland TBA / Time TBA

Sunday: Location Pacifica Manor Beach at Manor & Esplanade Avenue / Time Sunset (meet at 4:30pm across from Chit Chat Cafe on the beach)

Friday, World Hoop Day, 11/11/11 We meet to perform the WHD Safety Dance.  Then we do the LED version, and then the Fire version!

Saturday, 11/12/11 come to Oakland to do this dance and give hoops to at-risk youth.  Help keep them out of gangs and give them joy, peace and healthy activities.

Sunday, 11/13/11 visit the World Hoop Day HQ in Pacifica to hoop on the beach, the cliffs and in front of the Pacific ocean.  Enjoy breathtaking scenery, while hooping at dusk.  We will do the dance at sunset to get the setting sun in the video.

World Hoop Day is an international, annual hoop festival.  Bring out your inner, swirling savviness by raising awareness of healthy activities for kids, inner-city and isolated families around the world.

Free for all and hoop lessons, burlesque, fire, LED and performing encouraged.  Donations are highly appreciated, in need and gracefully accepted.  The monies go to send hoops to kids living in remote areas of the world and to local youth and rehabilitation centers.  World Hoop Day has been a dream of mine to create World Peace.

Hoop – It’s the happiest job you’ll ever love.