So the Maidan. If you don’t know what they are you have probably never attended a Hoop Path workshop with master Hoop Pather Jonathan Livingston Baxter. While I’ll leave the in-depth teaching metaphors to him, I’ll tell you that the Maidan are part of a myth that Bax uses to teach you how to connect to your hoop.

Like Baxter, I usually encourage my students away from the “gotta get tricks” approach to hooping. Besides that, I don’t know that we have that much else in common, besides a weakness for Puma sneakers. But I love his classes and you should check it out of you’re in town. Tickets for this weekend’s workshop in Brooklyn are on sale now.