After practicing this some, I went online and learned that knee/waist hooping was the hardest one to get down. D'oh! For this particular combination of multi-body hooping, I don't think it's necessary to have two hoops of the exact same size, as the rhythm isn't going to line up between your waist and knee regardless. My biggest tip would to be practicing knee hooping and locking in a beat and never losing it. Practice phantom waist hooping while hooping at the knee. It's harder than you think!
For this I'd really recommend using the heaviest hoops you own. I started with some 2.5 pound duct tape-covered hoops. It really helped me to be able to feel what side of me the hoop was pressing against. Being able to tell where the hoops are at all times is going to be key to getting down knee/waist hooping, as the rhythm just continuously changes.
One thing this taught me is that if you have an unbalanced body shape (i.e. top-heavy or bottom-heavy), you're going to have a hard time waist/chest mulit-hooping. It's the same problem that the rest of us encounter when hooping at the knees: your hoop isn't traveling across the same amount of space on your waist as it is on your chest. The hoops aren't going to spin at the same rate, and you're going to have to use some wonky rhythm because the movements likely won't sync up. But don't give up! You can find a work around.
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