This is my first CIA tape, and it's grown on me so much, I can't wait for the others to arrive. Everything is movement, and both Melani and Wiley build their routines by adding on, running them through fromthe beginning, then adding on again. Robert Melani warms up with a fun short routine, then Calvin Wiley leads the warm up stretch. He's interested in "interesting arms" (which I'm not) so I do my own warm up. Wiley goes into his lo segment of the hi/lo, and it is a lot of fun. You need some room, but you work without dying. Defintely low impact. Melani follows with what, for me, is too high a high impact. He's on the balls of his feet a lot. So, now I do his warm up, Wiley's low impact, and cut to the end, to finish the hi/lo section where the two routines weave together. Quite impressive!

Then Melani does a step segment that I like more and more. My first experience with advnced power /turn moves.

The floor (lo, hi-lo) and step sections come to about an hour. Wiley then leads a funk section which I love to watch, but I don't do. He cools us down, and then Melani does fairly straightforward abs.

I recommend the tape. I didn't order Melani's 8004. If he had another with step, however, I would get it.

Instructor Comments:
Roberto Melani is very athletic, powerful, and his moves are well-defined. He appears to really enjoy both his own routines and working with Calvin. Calvin Wiley is a choreographer, and his segments, the lo (or the hi/lo) and the funk clearly show his love of dance. The two work well off of each other, one being very much the athlete, the other, the dancer.

Beth