Recurring Seasons

[@lavinder5]

My dear friend Matthias, wow. Absolutely blown away with your hoopflow here. You and your wonderful, Warrior Ways. Powerful, agile, steady, resilient. I love how you open and close with the humble living room scene, then depart into other magical worlds as you flow with your hoop. A perfect mirror of the worlds we visit when we put our hoop on, our body between the couch and the picture window, and our spirit flying over snowy hills, autumn forests, green meadows, red deserts.

[@RhymingMime]

Probably the most captivating hooping Ive ever seen, couldnt take my eyes off the flow.

[@therealsoyboy]

My man, you've just cemented your place in the Hoop Hall of Fame. I feel lucky to know you. Brotherly hoop love.

[@SparrowVisionQuest]

Happy tears. So blessed to know you and share such a sacred family bond. You constantly inspire and aspire to be nothing short of golden. Mind blown. Heart sewn. Love ya bestie! This is ART!

[@MaisieHoops]

This is the most inspiring hoop video I've seen that I can remember. You have such a talent. Beautiful scenery, perfect choice in music... Loved it.

[@evenfurthurspaceage]

Wonderful wonderful wonderful! So grateful to have been able to take part in your workshop at Flow fest...sent me home with new found inspiration just as this video has done. Thank you.

[@MrBrodhi]

Well done. I think the hoop allows us an abstract connection to nature and the natural circular systems of life so I love the transitions to so many beautiful places! Perfect blend of elegant talent and play ( love the winter hat!!). Keep on flowing (and recording!)

[@Shwhipples]

I love your purple and yellow hoop...compliments are my favorite color combos :)

[@y3llow5ub]

wowwww the isolations in between the weaves at 4:11 are AMAZING

[@omwoods]

Wow this was magical, beautiful landscapes and beautiful hooping! ♥

[@mutantsong]

Dude, this is so awesome! What a spectacular first video. Your hooping is so dynamic and clean, especially the Warrior stuff. The shots in nature are so beautiful, particularly the canyon one. Wow. This is great hooping and great videomaking. Great job. I love this vid. Inspiring.

[@itsthatkatt]

so moving..... just wow and thank you for sharing

[@Groovinmegzz]

I love it!!!!!!!!! beautiful editing! great hooping! Matthais I am honored to call you a friend! THank you for sharing your groove so wonderfully!!! your breaks are wicked sick!!! I love the setting at 2:31 great job!!!

[@hoopsmiles]

Just saw your video on hooping.org under the Hoopie Award nominations. Beautifully done!

[@yabadabaoliveu]

Yeahya! why am i just seeing this? I love your energy, amazing. Enjoyed watching your antispin and not antispin type variations, mind confusion. Plus the inner hoop isolation .

[@mediatinker]

Beautiful, beautiful.

[@therealsoyboy]

Wow. Stupendous. Such beauty, power, control, speed, flow, pure liquid. Tight tight tight. And the vistas! One of the most beautiful hoop vids I've ever seen. Ever.

[@oobritteroo]

Love ur video! Totally deserved a hoopie for this! Just wondering, what kind of hoop are u using? Polypro or a regular hoop? Like 1/2 100 or 3/4 100? Could not decide from the video but am dying to know :)

[@solitaryhathor]

wow love it! you appear to be blessed with some outstanding surroundings!

[@ohohashleyy]

Paul Bunyan up in these woods gettin it with some hula hoops! :D you are so fascinating to watch. Very inspiring, thank you :)

[@komizutama]

:-) Thanks, I like doing those a lot, I've been really into two handed off body lately... I think it may have started with this movement.

[@komizutama]

@oobritteroo Hi, good thing you are a hoopmaker! It's something I recommend all hoopers try. First off, an important nugget of knowledge that you may find useful or may already know, irrigation tubing (ie, your 3." 100psi) is a measure of internal diameter (ID) This is because you can use the pressure and volume of the tubing to calculate the amount of fluid travelling through the tubing... good for irrigation problems.. for hoping we're more concerned about wall thickness and diameter.

[@christinabrittian]

you are a real gem, this video was inspiring to say the least. much much love and respect your way brother =] =]

[@komizutama]

@oobritteroo continued: both of those attributes affect the weight and stiffness of the hoop. materials also affects that. most irrigation tubing is made from LDPE low density polyethylene... some peopel like anah hoopalicious use high density polyethlene and others like myself use poly propylene. HDPE and LDPE are wax esters so they are well waxier and more plastiv.. poly pro is to my knowledge more of a crystalline structure.. the long and short of this is that pp is snappier and fractures..

[@komizutama]

@Deboola6 That's in the woods by a pasture near my mum's house in NC the day after christmas. I scrapped a lot of video that I was going to use after that day. wonderful solo hoop in the woods!

[@gelliott53]

Awesome Dude, thanks for sharing.

[@komizutama]

@Psypolip Thanks! "Recurring" by Bonobo

[@nettepetzi]

you have a look for backgrounds and a handing for hoops. really great

[@Jonana.bread0]

you are brilliant!

[@komizutama]

@Shwhipples working on it. I've got something I'm planning that should be a lot of fun!! I will NOT be taking months with it though :-)

[@oobritteroo]

Hey! I've been making hoops for the last year and love it, But I love even more the quick and responsiveness of a polypro hoop. I'm just so attached to the thickness and sturdiness of my 3/4 100 hoops I can't stand the thought of giving up on them. Ive just been trying to find a hooper that uses the regular hoops to get the same quickness as every hooper with a poly pro... just to watch their technique and see how it can be done... Not to become them, just inspired by them. :) thanks for ur tim

[@komizutama]

@therealsoyboy Wow! that's super high praise esp from you soyboy! I know how many you must review each year for the hoopies! Thank you!!

[@superdannyj]

lovely

[@heyimc8]

Shit, bro. You look like a wizard. Blessed. Be.

[@y3llow5ub]

love love love

[@komizutama]

@komizutama and HDPE and LDPE are softer a "damper" rebound and kinks... it also tends to be heavier... SO... there isn't really a magic bullet to all of this. they DO make PP and HDPE tubing in roughly equivalent OD to irrigation tubing... No in terms of th ephysics of this, you will require more strength and power to use a heavier hoop the way you would use a lighter hoop. You will have to pump faster with a lighter hoop and can go slower with a heavier one. If you break through this...

[@oobritteroo]

@komizutama I was simply asking what your hoop was made from. The 3/4" 100 PSI is the best way of stating the weight and sturdiness of the hoop... the diameter is somewhat irrelevant. Someone may pick up my hoop and love its feel but its too small, so you can change the diameter of the hoop but the feeling is still the same. The diameter is where its a personal preference you have to figure out and change as you go.

[@komizutama]

@jujubeanser yeah, I am kind of a slow hooper aren't I... ned to work on that... ;-D

[@specimn13]

awesome

[@MrRocketpowerG]

i believe you are the one who had a video stolen , and it appears to me you didnt take it lightly!! but your hooping is beautiful and i love the way you express yourself, and i dont want to hoop like you, i want to hoop like me, with the size that works best for me, but i am curios as to what KIND you use, metalic on the inside? glimmers in the sun, its about christmas time and i would love a new polypro that takes my hooping to the next level

[@komizutama]

@oobritteroo Hi, So I actually really hate this question. And here's why: I think we spend too much time obsessing about hoops and what hoop we have and what size and is my hoop too thick or two small or thin or too whippy or springy... or whatever. Baxter uses a plain piece of black polyethylene that he sanded the printing off of, Nick guzzardo uses a cheap gymnastics hoop that's been kinked a billion times. My favorite hoop is a scratched shredded piece of poly pro...

[@EmilyYoga_and_Pilates]

loved it =)

[@therealsoyboy]

@komizutama Hundreds. I consider myself a bit of a hoop historian; I love watching new vids and meeting new hoopers, and this is by far one of my top 10 favorites, ever. :-) Others to check out: Malcolm Stuart Demo #3, Isolation Solution by Nicolas Longuechaud, Gotta Hoop by Philo, Brecken Tears it up on the Hula Hoop at Symbiosis2009, and Baxter hoops to "Spilt Milk" by Paris.

[@msmakeitphunky]

where do you live? sooooo beautiful!!

[@komizutama]

@oobritteroo well... you'll be up for a nobel in physics and you can school me on all sorts of things in this area..... though I'd think you'd be too busy at that point to waste your time on me.. ;-)... more mass=more momentum at the equivalent speed.. soooo yeah.. hope this is helpful.. let me know what you discover!

[@oobritteroo]

@komizutama continued... again... lol But u can look at a strangers hoop and notice its size or diameter, but with out picking it up u wont know its size in the matter of thickness and PSI to properly judge its weight or spring/wonky

[@komizutama]

@oobritteroo Continued from previous... So I think we get wrapped up in trying to do what other people are doign insted of figuring out what feels right for US to do... I would urge you to try loooooots of hoops. ask people if you can borrow theirs... use big ones use small ones use fat tubing and thin tubing, hdpe and pp and whatever this new stuff that patrick is cooking up... but having a hoop built to the same spec is not going to make you hoop just like me...

[@komizutama]

@oobritteroo Continued yet again: And truth be told... you shouldn't hoop like me.. I mean borrow steal rob, whatever from whomever.. but what I want to see is how YOU hoop... how YOU find truth in movement. how YOU reinterpret your life experience into art.... And that springs from picking up a hoop and discovering that it feels good for you and run with it. There are at least three hoops in this video. I currently use mostly 30", 33", 35" and 40" hoops and even one 6 footer. Experiment!

[@Shwhipples]

make more videos!!!

[@komizutama]

@lavinder5 :-D love you beth!

[@komizutama]

Video stolen? Forgive me I actually don't know what you are talking about? I haven't actually produced all that many videos and I'm not entirely sure how someone could "steal" one anyhow. The hoop is a pp hoop that I tape myself with mirror tape. I firmly believe that the hoop does not make the hooper. Currently I use untaped PP more than anything else. Sizing wise It's about crotch high. and small enough that it's just above the ground when I have it cupped in my hand.

[@jujubeanser]

Pick up the pace!! jk;p

[@oobritteroo]

Hey! I've been making hoops for the last year and love it, But I love even more the quick and responsiveness of a polypro hoop. I'm just so attached to the thickness and sturdiness of my 3/4 100 hoops I can't stand the thought of giving up on them. Ive just been trying to find a hooper that uses the regular hoops to get the same quickness as every hooper with a poly pro... just to watch their technique and see how it can be done... Not to become them, just inspired by them. :) thanks for ur qui