The Samba Reggae Workout Review
I can't help but love a fun workout that keeps me smiling the entire time. Quenia is lively and full of energy, but what I love most is how learning the choreography is structured. In my bellydance classes, instructors tend to teach each section of the routine one section at a time. After they've finished teaching you each section they then take it from the top, at which point I've found I've frequently forgotten at least half of what I've learned. I love that Quenia works through the entire routine each time she adds on a new section. I've never learned choreography so quickly. Granted, this might make the video a little less interesting to some for regular use, but I can definitely see popping it into the rotation at least once a week.
The less good: The movement are very big, so for the most part I found that I could easily process what she was doing. If you're unable to tell from watching her, though, you will be out of luck. Her idea of instruction is to pause, change angles, point at her leg and say "see like this." While angle changes can sometimes be useful, they're not always enough. For me, much like samba, bellydance involved learning a new movement vocabulary. Fortunately, most good bellydance instructors have done a lot to verbalize those movements. I can understand that it would break up the workout pace to include a lot of instruction in the routine section, but it would be nice to see it somewhere in the video, even if it were in an expanded "basic step" section.
The Samba Reggae Workout Overview
Studio: Stratostream Release Date: 08/28/2007 Run time: 45 minutes
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