A wonderful water game. Our family thoroughly enjoyed this hoop over a weekend, making up stupid games on how we could score baskets. Easy to inflate (definitely need a needle adapter for your air pump for the ball though!) and stood up nicely in the water. One thing to be aware of, the inner-tube (the part that you inflate and floats) is covered by a fabric-type material (the material is undoubtedly made for the water), this is the part of the picture that has the blue and red pattern design on it. I'm sure this fabric is there for a very very good reason, but my nearly 70-year old dad, kept insisting on dunking into the hoop and ended up somewhat water-logging this fabric. Don't worry, the hoop still floated just fine! It just ended up leaning to an angle as there was probably just too much water in the fabric. If you use the hoop more gently, I don't think you'll have this issue. If you, your family, or friends, insist on yelling, "Lebron James!" and leaping across the pool to slam-dunk, you might end up with a lop-sided hoop like we did. Regardless, I know the hoop wasn't destroyed and once dried out, it will resume normal buoyancy.