This video is one of the two new videos in the Great Moves Classic Cardio Series. This video is tag-team taught by Jay Blahnik & Kari Anderson. I really enjoyed this video. It was fun and creative and had a good flow even though two instructors teach it. The video is approximately 45 minutes in length, consisting of a short warm up, 3 step sections, and a cool down and stretch.

The warm up is lead by Jay. He begins a bit slower paced doing some fancier moves like stomps, skates on the board, turn steps and shuffles on the step. You do a mini combo them move into active stretching. Holding a stretch while engaging the arm movements. This warm up section will pop back up in the cardio section

Kari leads the first stepping section. She does some nice L-Step variations. You begin a regular L-Step but instead you step to the side and then to the back while keeping the one-foot on the step. She also does a lot of variations on basic steps, adding turns and footwork. Also move that Kari uses in this section are V-Steps and some pivots and turns on the floor.

Then you combine Jay's warm up combo with Kari's first segment. You repeat this a few times.

Jay leads the second step section. This section reminds me a lot of Jay's Step Revival. Its has the same kind of feel to it. Jay does lots of variations of basic step adding some direction and footwork. He does some jump leaps, similar to the jump leaps from the first section of Power Max with Cathe Friedrich. He then moves into a series of moves with lots of power V-Step on to the step with pulses and attitude.

Kari leads the third step section. She does a fun move she calls a Knee-Hip-Hip. She does lots of turn step and shuffles on the step. And she does a step kick move, which is a half pendulum move, in that you don't pendulum both feet but one foot stays on the step while only one leg kicks. After the combo is taught Kari goes back through it and changes the direction of the moves. Instead of doing all of the moves long ways using the step she changes the moves so that you are working the moves on the narrow end of the step. It's a really fun combo.

Then you repeat all the combos from the beginning to the end.

Kari leads the cool down and Jay leads the stretching segment. I really enjoyed some of the stretches that Jay did. Lots of good ankles and Solis stretches.

I really enjoyed the tape. If you like the style and intensity of Step Revival you will love this tape. It is mostly low impact but you can easily add power to a lot of the moves to increase the intensity. The setting is the same as the recent Great Moves videos with great quality sound and picture. All of the transitions moved smoothly and they both seemed to be having a blast. The only complaint that I have is that while over all the music is great one song during Kari's first segment drug on and on. After it was over I could still hear the lyrics of "Stand Up" for a while. I think you will find that this tape is great for lower impact days where you still want to have fun and work up a sweat.

Susie F.