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Hula
hooping 10km new world record by Betty Hoops
[June 9] NEW YORK, NY--On Memorial Day, national Hoop Dance teacher,
Betty Hoops, broke the World Record again. She hula hooped while
running the entire Bolder Boulder 10K in Colorado.
This is her 3rd year hoop running. Team Hoop
fundraises money for different charities each year such as Lance
Armstrong Foundation and the Cerebral Palsy of Westchester NY.
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In 2005 Betty Hoops set the World Record for distance/speed
hula hooping the 10K in 1hr 43min.
In 2006 she broke it by 18 minutes but the camera woman
fell on her face in the first mile and they had no documentation
for the Guinness Book to change her time.
Over Memorial Day, 2007, Betty Hoops broke her
initial record coming in at 1hr. 36min. and 1 second.
“I’m just a Jewish girl from New York
who got kicked out of a step aerobics class when I was 25.” Hoops
exclaims. Rhythmically challenged, she was determined to find an
easy & inspiring way to stay healthy.
She left her job as a chef at Pinons, one
of the best restaurants in Aspen, to hand mold adult hoops & teach
classes. Consumer demand kept growing, so she devoted all her time
to building a worldwide hoop business.
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Hula Hoop workouts have been rated the
hottest trend in America, says recent features in Vogue, ACE Fitness,
Oprah, MSNBC and the View. Betty has been on the Caroline Rhea Show,
Fox 5 News NY, LA Morning Show & ESPN.
Publications write about her ability to
heal others through hoop such as; Aspen Peak Magazine, Santa Barbara
Press, Vision Magazine and Vegetarian Times.
One of her students was even on The Late Show
with David Letterman. He hoop/walked with an original Betty Hoop.
Betty Hoops Dance Therapy® was formed in 1998.
She teaches her programs in schools, health clubs & yoga centers
throughout the country.
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In 2003 she contracted with Gaiam. Together they
sell the Gaiam Dance Hoop Kit in Target & online.
This kit offers a collapsible/padded hoop for adults
and a workout dvd based in yoga & sport training.
Hoops’ resides in Aspen, CO where she teaches
her fun based hoop workout to athletes.
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She is currently working on a documentary about finding
health and peace through the hoop.
This will incorporate her race footage that Warren
Miller Extreme Sports took, her hoop/snowboarding footage that ESPN
took as well as footage from her classes that she has taught in
New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, NYC after 9/11, as well as
the adult Hoop Dance classes that she has taught and filmed around
the country.
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Betty Hoops will be hosting teacher trainings
in NYC, DC and the UK this September. She will also be hosting a
fundraising event for the Cerebral Palsy Foundation of Westchester
NY in her hometown.
website: Betty
Hoops website
Video:
Hula hooping 10km new world record by Betty Hoops
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