Marcos Prolo's step tape Nonstop Step and tried it for the first time today. It's Marcos and two female backup exercisers in a gym setting. The warm up is good, the first combo goes along fine, the choreo is fun, new but not too complex and I'm clicking along well when wham! Suddenly the camera man decides he's bored or something and decides to get creative. Someone wrestle the camera away from that camera man! So as Marcos is teaching brand new steps the camera man goes to a funky side angle that cuts off their feet! And then he spends a lot of time on upper body shots of Marcos' very attractive back up exercizers as Marcos teaches even more steps. The whole second and third combos are nearly unlearnable because you almost never get to see the whole thing from a basic front angle. Good thing his cueing is excellent or there would be no hope for this vid whatsoever. But the camera man made me stop numerous times in total frustration because I had no clue what it was that he was doing because everyone's feet were cut off for the entire teaching section. Ack! Don't you think this would be rule number one for step video with (relatively) complex choreography?

Oh how I long to see this entire workout from the front! It seems like an excellent workout. Someone introduce Marcos to Greg Twombly please! I don't even care if it's shot on the red dead cow background, just keep the camera in the right place!

The background exercisers were very well rehearsed, the plain gym workout room was ok but would have been better without the mirrors. The music was fine and has been used in other tapes.

Instructor Comments:
Marcos reminds me of a somewhat less animated verion Andre Houle in his choreography and the way he talks and cues. His cueing is excellent!

Anne V