At our local coffee shop they call a decaf cappucino with skim milk a "Why Bother". This is I how I felt about this tape. Why bother? Learning this tape just didn't seem to be worth it. It looked hard, but wasn't. Too much marching in place while the instructors taught new steps. Spent a lot of time "teaching" some easy steps, and then when the steps were put into the combos, used what seemed to be completely different steps. The cueing was not very good, in fact some of it was downright frustrating. Instead of cueing a straddle, the instructors cued, "half way over, all the way over." This was very confusing, I thought that straddles were pretty universal. (they certainly oculd use some lessons from Kari Anderson) A couple additional pet peeves were triggered. I hate being talked down to. I'm in my living room doing a video tape, what else am I going to do while marching in place but listen? No need to keep telling me like I was dumb. The other pet peeve is adding a couple of unusual arm movements and calling a routine "funk". I'm sorry but these women were stiff, they didn't have the loose, fun, fluidity I consider funk. This tape wasn't horrible, but it wasn't worth the effort. For this much work I require either fun, or a heart pounding workout. I felt I had to warn people before I exchanged this tape.

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Lynn