Watching San Francisco Step is much harder than *doing* it. I watched it when I first got it on the exchange, and thought: Wow! A real aerobics class, with no canned music, and phony people. Yes, the production values are very cheap. It almost looks black and white, even. When I finally got around to trying to do the workout (after watching it all the way through), I was completely baffled. The moves aren't hard, but the videocamera guy switches from mirror image where the camera faces the instructor (i.e. the "regular" way of taping videos) to filming the instructor from behind. Can I begin to tell you what this does to my equilibrium and sense of spatial relationships? It's just too hard for me to remember whether THEIR going back means ME going forward, or if I should move forward with them. I didn't get beyond the 2nd instructor (and there are nine altogether). I shut it off, and decided that my time would be better spent with a CIA. If I'm that desparate for a real class in San Francisco, I'm only a 35 minute drive away, luckily.

Eulonda Skyles