Was always rubbish at this as a child despite telling myself in later years that I was good! These hoops are great fun, its a lot easier than doing it with a child's hoop. At the risk of sounding a plonker, it gives you a real sense of well being. Practice is needed but you will laugh more than you frown. No need for a video but helps to look at instruction clips on You Tube, just enter hula hooping in your search. The best advice is to just have a go, shift weight (without lifting feet off ground) backwards and forwards and send the hoop spinning! A few friends get together one morning a week in the garden and we feel 7 again! Would highly recommend this product.