What is Hula-Hoop®?

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Hula-Hoop® is a toy of the California Society, based in California-Také manufacturers Frisbee®, Superball®, Hacky Sack® and Slip 'N Slide-, who introduced Hula-Hoop® to the market in 1958. Hoops as toys and exercise equipment. Hoops were rolled and used for other games, but several cultures were specially used for swinging around the body - either at the waist or elsewhere. This was done, for example, by the Lakoty Indians in North America.

The story is that in the 1950s the school teacher in Sydney bamboo hoop with his students in the physical education class and taught them how to throw around the waist rhythmically. Bamboo Hoops was the first to be made, and a toymaker named Alex Tolmer Invest the possibility of mass production.

Tolmer has developed a hoop of polyethylene. It was lighter than bamboo hoops and also cheaper. Tolmer's company, Toltoys, sold 400,000 hoops in 1957. Toltoys and WHAM-OThey were interested in further development of the hoop. The agreement and trademark Wham-O name Hula-Hoop® was concluded.

After some design changes, Melin and Kners began to bring the public in 1958, just one year after the start of the Popular Frisbee®. They made a promotion of the playground and advertised on national television. Hula-Hoop® has become such a fad that they sold twenty-five million products in four months. Competitors, when they saw people were crazy, quickly came up with similar products.

In the 1960s, after a sharp decline in sales, Wham-O added a ball of every hula-hoop® to create a sound when it swirls. Other innovations include folding Hula-Hoops® and different dimensions that correspond to people with different waist sizes.