Great Moves: Step Construction

Marcus Irwin
Year Released: 1998

Categories: Step Aerobics


This video has a much more beautiful set then the older Great Moves video's. The back bright windows are covered with a see through sheet and it looks so pleasant to the eye.

The workout starts off with a small warmup but no stretching.

Marcus does alot of marching and does mostly low impact except for moves where you have to unload the knee. He tells you to keep going on the move while he shows you a new move. Sometimes it's marching for 16 counts! Not me! I don't like being taught that way. One thing happened in the middle of the workout, Marcus started getting off beat of the music. So he would start a move on the 6 count instead of the 1st 8 count. This was so so bad. I could never do this workout because of this. He finally got back on beat by a knee hop that looked like he was about to trip. He does alot of mambos and step knee ups. The choreography is intermediete. Some turns around the bench but nothing exciting. He does a lot of the choreography on the floor. The music is the CIA 9703 step music that you hear in almost all the new CIA video's which is getting so old. He then does some marching at the end off beat of the music and this got annoying as well. I like to do a back stretch to the beat of the music but he didn't. All his moves were off beat. His microphone got a lot of static too which was irritating. Technical problems. As you can tell, I wasn't that impressed with this workout. Marcus is a charming instrucor maybe his next video will go better for him

Instructor Comments:
Marcus does a very good job on cueing but gets off the beat of the music which is so aggrivating!!! He has a great Australian accent and charming personality. His choreography is ok alot of mambo's. His workout has a lot of low impact. He has a bulky muscly look to him and he wears these really short shorts that look strange on a man if you know what I mean. Can you picture Speedo bathing suit working out? During the warmup, his t-shirt already had huge sweaty armpits.

Mandy Lee

09/15/1998