I am an advanced Hooper. I travel and thought Guadalupe be perfect for me. NOPE ! I tried some breaks and paddles and it came apart completely several times. The last time the conections broke I could not put it together again. It took longer to find the hoop on Amazon than it lasted hooping :(

I got this as an easy, fun way to exercise. Honestly, hula hooping is fun. I'm not so good at it but I've really improved. I got the dance hoop (minimal weight), but I can break a sweat. If you get bored, you can always watch TV while you do it or listen to music. Also, you don't need a whole lot of room to do this. The video was somewhat helpful in learning how to keep the hoop up. I'll do the workouts once I'm a little better.

I hesitated to buy this hoop, because I'm 41...a mom of 6 and 30 lbs overweight. I've never been able to hula hoop a day in my life and was afraid it would be a big waste of money and space in my home. My 13 year old niece recently slimmed down and created an hourglass figure for herself with a hoop and she made it look so fun that I wanted to try it. After watching some youtube videos, I learned that a bigger hoop with some nice weight to it might help me find success. This hoop was the perfect size and at a price point that I was willing to take the risk. To my surprise, I was able to do it the first try with all the sections in. I got a little cocky and tried taking one section out and it fell right to the ground. I'll need more practice.

The hoop sections lock together securely with a pin that pushes down to release. It feels super secure and easy to take apart and put together over and over again. My only concern is the holographic tape had come unwrapped on the ends when it arrived. I stuck it back down with my finger, but I'll probably have to add some glue at some point. I haven't tried the video yet.

I broke my ankle and have been lacking basic cardiovascular exercise. I wanted to do something that didn't require moving my feet or flexing my ankle since I'll be going into a second surgery. Hula hopping sounded like a winner! I bought this dance hula hoop over a weighted hoop for two reasons.
1. Lighter dance hoops require more effort to keep moving
2. Removable sections
While the tape on the sections isn't very sticky, I reinforced all tape ends with some scotch tape, since it was coming up from friction. The latch system is very secure. I don't feel like the hoop will fall apart hooping. I did wd-40 some of the stickier metal latches, as they wouldn't come up once depressed.
I haven't hula hooped since my childhood and I lost any "knack" for it. Therefore, I'm back at square one as a beginner. I've given myself 7 days to be able to keep the hoop up. I plan on doing 30mins of hooping for 30mins/day. I'm on day 4 of hooping and can keep the hoop "up" for about 30secs. I did photograph and take measures of my midsection, which I expect to shrink with tightening of the transverse abdominals, obliques, back muscles, hips, and gluts. I've read that hula hooping is the equivalent of doing 360° of situps with the extra bonus of weight to work the transverse abs (corset effect).