The history of hula hoop

It is impossible to get the patent right of this toy. By Labor Day, more than a dozen companies had copied it and sold it under another trademark. This autumn, if all the imitations at home and abroad are counted, the total sales volume of hula hoop is estimated to be tens of millions. Too many people use it, and European medical journals have issued warnings to be alert to excessive intensity and damage to the body. There are many examples of actual injuries. In Leiden, the Netherlands, a Dutch woman was sent to the operating room to have her appendix removed, but the doctor found that her illness was actually caused by abdominal muscle injury, which was completely caused by excessive rotation of the hula hoop. In Britain, the sales of hula hoops reached 250,000. The British Medical Association issued a warning: "Anyone who is found to have heart disease should not play hula hoop, and anyone who lacks training should not play too hard at the beginning." In Japan, emergency rooms in hospitals are crowded with patients with lumbar disc herniation and spinal dislocation caused by playing hula hoop.

When Queen Zinai of Jordan came back from Europe, she also had a hula hoop in her luggage, which should be to prove that the hula hoop is not something improper. However, some toy manufacturers are still nervous. Adults are willing to watch others play hula hoops because some people's hips are quite attractive. That autumn, whenever a football match was held, there was always an unexpected pleasure: watching the charming band leader twist his waist wildly attracted thousands of spectators to shout.

No matter what obscene ideas the audience have, this new American thing is still very popular in other countries. In Germany, it is always a bit unreasonable for Germans who have no children to buy toys. In order to avoid being seen, they asked the store to wrap the goods and send them home at night. When a Belgian expedition set out for the South Pole, there were also 20 hula hoops in its luggage: the money was for entertainment. In Warsaw, a weekly newspaper for young people actually said, "If the Ministry of Light Industry and the Handicraft Bureau don't start producing hula hoops, our progress in this respect, especially from an international perspective, will be greatly backward." The two departments were still dragging their feet, so the hula hoop was smuggled in through East Germany.

Hula hoops come and go quickly. In the summer of 1959, garbage dumps in many cities are full of abandoned hula hoops. In any case, it can be seen from this fanaticism that even a small matter in American popular cultural life will have a great impact on the rest of the world. 1. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart and your arms behind you at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock. Hold the hula hoop and keep it 30 cm away from your body. Inhale, hold out your chest, and try to clamp your shoulder blades.

2. Turn the hula hoop clockwise.

3. Return to the initial position and turn the hula hoop counterclockwise until the right hand is placed directly above the head and the left hand is placed behind the hip. Hold 10 second, take a deep breath slowly, and then return to the initial state.