Spoke Two: Hula-hoopers Anonymous

The hooping started in Egypt 3,000 years ago, with participants using grapevines and grasses. Later, in England sticks were used. It transformed to plastic in the 1950s. Now you can get the normal everyday hula-hoop at Wal-Mart or customize your own. It's now an undying fad. Someone will always want to hula-hoop.

It's true. I can hula-hoop. At first, this was not something I really would broadcast to everyone, but now I don't care as much. It's just something I can do without much practice. In fact, all of my siblings can hula-hoop without much effort. I had to laugh a few years ago when I came across a website hooping.org. At the home page it had read, "for the underground hula-hooping community." Apparently I am not the only one to shy away from the talent.

I don't have much footage of my hula-hooping ventures, because well, I really don't do it too often. However, I do have this:


And also this:



I found some interesting hula-hooping records here.

It started with a talent show in Michigan. Ironically, the only time I'll bust out the hula seems to be when some sort of talent show comes up. Typically I can't think of anything else to do. So I just hoop it up. My new trick is hula-hooping while balance boarding. Anyway, perhaps when another talent show comes, I'll dust off the hula-hoops and perform once again.

Spoke One: MICHIGAN FOOTBALL

Lately, I've come to the realization that my favorite sports team is indeed Michigan football. I've followed closely the whole ordeal with RichRod(Michigan's new coach), have become addicted to Mgoblog (Michigan's most prominent blog), and have also become a fan of watching the recruiting wars unfold. In particular, I'm excited about Sam McGuffie, Michigan's highly-touted and dynamic RB. How could you not be excited about this:

Or this:

Brian, at Mgoblog, does a great job of recruiting analysis here.

In reality, it's extremely hard to predict recruits. Mike Hart was a 3 star running back, but turned into one of Michigan's most consistent players over the last 4 years. I am a bit concerned our bowl streak may be in trouble this year, mostly because we don't have a QB. But hopefully, like RichRod did with recruiting, he'll be able to pull out his wizard hat and surprise us all. Go Blue.