Mega Step Blast

Cathe Friedrich
Year Released: 1994

Categories: Step Aerobics


Mega Step Blast

This tape was my first introduction to Cathe Friedrich's step videos. Collage Video rated the choreography complex, and that in itself stopped me from placing an order several times over even though I desparately wanted to try it. Luckily, I met Debbie Kenny in m.f.a, who was kind and patient enough to actually type out many of the moves in email messages, until I finally had a good enough feel for the choreography. After about a month, I decided to order the tape.

Surprisingly, I found it pretty easy to follow the first time through thanks to Cathe's superb instruction and cuing abilities, and the few parts that gave me trouble had me in sync again after a handful of rewinds. Cathe uses the add-on technique, teaching two moves, putting them together, going "from the top", teaching two more moves, adding them together, going from the top again, etc. This really reinforces the steps and by the time you go from the top without breaking the moves down to their simplest components, it is easy to follow along and get a great, fun workout.

All of Cathe's follow-up videos use base choreography moves from Mega Step Blast, so this is a good starter workout for Step Max, Step Heat, and Step Jam. I highly recommend it for people who are bored with their other step videos. Once I tried Cathe, I gave away most of my other step tapes. There is only one other I still use and love (National Step Champions, One Step Beyond) but other than that, my step video library is dominated by Cathe.

Roberta Kagno

11/30/-0001