I was lucky enough to get this for free from Lesia English, my roommate during the Firm trip. I have done this tape (well, parts of it) twice and will probably just steal some choreography off it and put it on the Exchange.

Like others, my favorite section was the first one with the Anderson sisters. If I were to do this tape again, this would be the only section I would do. They are both likeable, and it's kind of fun to see two people tag-teaching like that. But after a while the moves get repetitive. They have a habit of teaching a combo on one side, eventually adding turns, arms, everything ... then they start teaching it on the other side from the beginning, as if you've never seen the moves before! The second time I did this tape, I was already slightly aggravated and going into what I already knew the final move was going to be. This would probably be fine for a live workout, but I would be bored silly doing this tape again and again.

Two other things that bothered me slightly was that they seem to do a lot of fancy stuff with their arms. I am not real big into that; I don't like to think too much about arm movements, and sometimes I just did my own. And although I will take some of this choreography into my own classes, sometimes it didn't seem to flow too well. At times they would tap and change legs where I wouldn't naturally expect it.

The other sections didn't grab me at all. Paul McKean was okay, but boring (I could see other people liking that routine, though) and I thought the last person seemed odd and was also boring.

Jen Blaske