1. your facebook newsfeed is all hooping related

2. you see circles everywhere

3. your friends automatically know you’re going to bring your hoops with you wherever you go

4. you start to air hoop to a song if you don’t have a hoop near you

5. before you go to bed you imagine yourself flowing in your head

6. you open your hoop Etsy shop

(Alexa Ponton)

7. you keep a hoop in your car just in case an opportunity arises

(Clem Boylan)

8. you are mad you think…“I need my hoop” when you are happy you think…“ I need my hoop” when you are anything you think “I need my hoop”

9. all of your friends have hoops

(Nikki Smith)

10. people think you are being abused because of all of the bruises and battle wounds you have from spinning

(Chealsea Smith)

11. your friends refer to you as the hula hoop girl

12. you have hoops at your house, in your trunk, and at your boyfriend’s house

13. you can’t walk past the toy aisle without stopping to get down with a hoop for a minute

14. you go on Etsy and every single LED Hoop related site to mentally budget how much longer it will take until you can finally save up for your first LED Hoop

(Sabrine Vin)

15. when you start taking selfies of yourself and your hoop

(Kelly Anne - Tiny Tangerines)

(Kimberly Raspantini)

16. you isolate your steering wheel

17. you start buying clothes based on their hoopability

18. you ask your friends to take pictures of you hooping

19. you get severely depressed when the tape on your favorite hoop gets damaged

20. you get weird looks taking your hoop everywhere with you

21. you have more hoops than you can count

22. you contemplate starting yoga, because there are some kick ass yoga hooping poses

(Brooke Lynn)

23. you are a happier person now that you were before you had hooping in your life

24. people constantly mistake your hobby for basketball

25. words like isopops, breaks, paddles, isolations, and flow make sense to you

(Brittney Marie)

26. you are in the minority of male hoopers, but that just makes you that much cooler for rocking the hoop!

(Moisés Olmedo)

27. your tape gets scuffed but you keep on hooping regardless of the scratches

(Emily Watson)

28. you start hooping in creative places and in creative ways

(Alex Gallo)

29. you have thought about hooping naked in nature

(Kayla Wilkinson)