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Now we have the remembrance of the world renown: HULA HOOP! (Hello!...Guys...down here...keep reading!)
There is no modern company or a single inventor that can claim they invented the...hula hoop. It has been discovered as far back as ancient Greece, where the "hoop" was used as a form of exercise.
Hula hoops have been made of metal, bamboo, wood, grasses, and vines. Today's models of the hula hoop are often made of plastic, some have glitter, and others make noises as they twirl around your waist. They also have collapsible hoops...for easier storage!
As early as the 1300's, Great Britain was "hooping it up" and when the British arrived in the Hawaiian Islands, they came to witness Hawaiian dancers using hoops in a dance called "Hula Dancing"...thus we have referred to hoops as "Hula hoops" since that time.
A company named the Wham-O company, started by Richard Knerr and Arthur "Spud" Melin, was a promoter of the hula-hoop.
Actually, the company got started back in 1948, operating out of a garage in Los Angeles. "Spud" and Knerr were attempting to market a sling shot...for training falcons and hawks. The sling shots would fling meat toward the birds in training as a reward technique.
The name "Wham-O" came as a result when the meat would be fling and "hit its target", it had a kind of "wham" sound...thus the "Wham-O" company was formed.
But the trademark for the Wham-O company was..."the hoop toy." They obtained the first patent of this invention and in their first 6 months of sales they sold 20 million hoops at $1.98 a piece. The company was also interested in another upcoming "toy"....something called a "frisbee".
Ok, I know this info I am sharing with you...is so vital! (lol) Here then are a little trivia on the infamous.....Hula Hoop:
1. Japan once banned the "hoop". They did not want Japanese girls walking in public with a "rotating hip action". It could cause men to be distracted...and even excited! (Perhaps it was kind of like being "hoopnatyzed"...I know..don't say it).
2. On June 4th, 2005, an Australian named Kareena Oates set a Guinness World Record for hula hooping...she had 100 hula hoops that spun around her body for 3 full rotations.
a) In June 2006, Alesya Goulevich of Belaus spun 101 hoops.
b) In October of 2007, Jin Linlin of China spun 105 hula hoops at one time.
3. The largest hula hoop: 51.5 feet in diameter, Ashrita Furman spun it around her on June 1st, 2007.
4. Roxann Rose of the U.S. hooped for...90 hours straight; between April 2nd and 6th of 1987.
5. Hooping can be a serious recreation for hoop-enthusiasts....check out hookedonhooping.com.
Oh, and did you ever wonder if Jesus used a hoop...why yes!...yes he did!
I don't know anymore about him...but he seems to like the hula hoop!
You don't think I was meaning...Really?
P.S. No...do not be caught with one of these!
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