I do remember it. I was quite good at it. So is my son. I always though guys didn't have enough "hip" to do it, but he loved it. When my adopted sister came here from the Philipines, this is how she did it (I found it very intriguing, and then, very fun!). You'd swing it around and jump over it with the other foot. There's actually a new toy that does it better.

We attend several of the sporting events at the local university. Half time at basketball games will often feature a hula hoop contest among university students in the crowd. Some are definitely not good and others are a big surprise at how well they do.

I have one that I'm borrowing from LuckyGardner. It's filled with water for extra weight. I'm scared of it splitting and spilling water all over the place, so I intend to use it outside, but keep forgetting to do it. :(

Remember it? I'm taking a class once a week in it!

Yes, as Ellen's comment indicates, hooping is very big now.

Yes, it's quite popular... my daughter has a 'led light up hoop' on her wish list.

Here is a link that might be useful: Hoops like these!

I was very good at it as a child/teen. We used to have one on a foot, one on each arm, one at the waist and one at the neck....all going at the same time! We stacked them too.

Now, I probably couldn't get one going.....unless it was my foot.

Rob, there was a hoop with a weighted piece on it that was specifically for the ankle. I had one as a kid. don't ask me what it was called....I'm old and I forget things.

I remember when my sister and I got hula hoops one summer, it would have been the mid 70's since we were in elementary school at the time. Loved them!!

And a friend of mine won a waterbed when she was in univeristy (late 80's) - she hula-hooped the longest while standing on the same waterbed, LOL. It was a contest run by a club/bar I think.

Dees was it the Lemon Twist? I remember them too.

Here is a link that might be useful: Ankle skip toy

Similar Casey.....mine wasn't a Lemon Twister. When they first came out in the early 70s, there was a plastic bell on the end.

I used to travel all over with that thing; literally would walk all over the neighborhood with that thing on my ankle. Our challenge was to see how fast we could get it going and then hold the other foot up and count the number of times it went around before you had to put your foot down or it stopped.

Oh yeah....easily amused. I also played with rocks and dirt clods.

You had the one I was talking about then, Dees. Hula hoop skipper? Something like that. A bell? That would've driven my mom bonkers. We had clackers (anyone else ever have those? It was Hawaii when I had those and maybe the contiguous states didn't have them?) and oy did they make a lot of noise!!! Freakin hurt if you hit your finger though.

Here is a link that might be useful: 70s clackers

I had all of the above, loved to hula hoop and jump rope, too. And had the ankle thingie and was really good with the clackers. We had them in Wisconsin. My parents always worried about them shattering, but none of mine ever did.

I had the clackers but mine were caller "Ker-Bangers"
I also had the Lemon Twist but instead of a bell at the end, mine had a big plastic lemon

I never was very good at a Hulahoop though...

I loved that thing that Dees is talking about.
I also loved skipping Double Dutch. And my slinky....

My purple Clacker did have one ball that cracked and broke apart.. otherwise I'd probably still have it. I loved that thing.

I do still have my red clackers somewhere! I had the ankle one too but it was not the lemon twist it had a red ball on the end.
We all did the hula hoops, my sisters were very good they were older than me. I jumped the hula hoop.
We also had these big bamboo poles that two people held one on each end and tapped them on the ground then together and we had to jump in between with out getting smashed by the poles, I don't remember what that was called, I was actually pretty good at that one.

And remember pick up sticks?Pick-up sticks
I still have my Chinese fortune telling sticks too. They come in a canister and you would gently shake the can till one stick fell out. Each one had a fortune on it. the Foo Chu those are the exact ones I still have lol.

Did anyone else have a Frosty snow cone maker? shaped like Frosty the snow man and you put ice cubes in and cranked it and it shaved the ice to make snow cones. I had the coke fountain too have no idea where that is because it would probably have some value.

I remember those poles, raven! That was fun, too. And playing Chinese jump rope, with the huge elastic band.