Jump and Jab 2
Mindy MylreaYear Released: 2005
Categories: Boxing/Kickboxing/Martial Arts
I really wish I could like this
workout more than I did. I am
always happy to have advanced
kickboxing workouts of all
varieties, but this is one of my
least favorite, even less than
Jump & Jab 1.
This video comes straight from
Mindy's patio, apparently. Just
watching her jump around on
what seems to be sun-dried
brick is painful. At one point I
watched a bird in the
background, my eyes glazed
over from incessant boxer
shuffling while Mindy prattled on
and on about things like "why is
balance important? Because
without it you'd fall over."
The first half of the workout
bored me almost to tears. She
goes over the basic punches
and kicks and has you do
endless reps of the kicks in
slow time--it's not bad for getting
in some muscle work in the
legs, but man is it boring, and
she blathers on with such
useless info as "What do you do
if you don't have enough room?
You make your shuffles
smaller." (Duh)
Then when you do the
choreographed routines, she
barely cues you in time for any of
it. It's a fun routine, and she
doesn't blather as much then,
but it's over in about 10 minutes.
I skipped the ending jump rope
and squats section because at
that point the video had hit 45
minutes and enough was
enough.
The music, bouncy instrumental with a good beat, unfortunately repeats itself over and over throughout the workout with the same half-dozen chords. Droning on and on--much like Mindy.
I don't mean to sound like I'm totally knocking her. I LOVE most of her workouts, especially her newer and better produced ones (ala CIA ). But this is just not one of her best. The kickboxing routines are great once you finally get to them, but there is just too much faux jumping, boring slow basic kicks, and shuffling in place while she chatters on about your dog Fifi, Cadillacs etc. etc. before it.
Instructor Comments:
If you like Mindy's chatter, you
sure get plenty of it here. Cuing
is not the greatest; she often
doesn't tell you which leg you're
going to be kicking with. It's a
tribute to how inherently good
she is that although this is by far
NOT one of her best video
workouts, it's still decent. I'm
someone who loves the "newer"
Mindy but wasn't crazy about the
incessant chatter of her earlier
videos. This seems typical of the
latter.