Product Details

• Actors: Jay Blahnik, Craig Woolsley
• Directors: Kari Anderson
• Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• VHS Release Date: August 1, 2000
• Run Time: 55 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1929430116
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #387,610 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

If you're an advanced step exerciser, bored with the workouts you do now, Classic Step will challenge your mind as well as your feet. "A non-stop, 45-minute celebration of step," Classic Step is designed for the advanced exerciser experienced with step workouts and hungry for choreography. The instructors, Kari Anderson and Jay Blahnik, are both well-known fitness leaders and instructor trainers. They alternate teaching segments so you get two different yet compatible styles. Both are excellent instructors, presenting several layers of variations, building from basic to complex. You won't get bored, and you can tailor the workout to your ability level and preference. Each pattern is presented first in its easiest components, then embellished with more complicated variations, turns, and direction changes. By the end, you've accumulated eight different and elaborate 16-count patterns, repeated on each side. Warning: if you're not accustomed to complex step choreography, you may get lost as early as the warm-up! The instructors emphasize that you can stay with the simpler version of each move, but it would have been helpful if one of the class members had done so to guide us--all of them do the advanced variations. --Joan Price

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great workout, but not for beginners, January 12, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Classic Step [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I have been doing step aerobics ever since it came out and I THOUGHT that I was pretty advanced until I tried doing this video. The first time I tried it I was so frustrated after only 5 minutes that I stopped the tape and did another one. I decided to watch the tape the whole way through before atempting it again. I've been doing it faithfully for 2 weeks now and it is an excellent workout. Its just the steps that are hard to learn. Don't let this scare you away though, if you're an advanced stepper and are bored with the ordinary videos that only include basic, v, turn, and straddle steps than you will love this video. It does asume that you know all of the basics though and goes right into complex combinations and new variations on steps i had never seen in any of the health clubs. I don't think I will be getting bored with this any time soon!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome workout, January 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Classic Step [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is an awesome workout. I am an intermediate stepper and found this to be incredibly challenging. It takes a few times thru to get all the moves down, but once you do it's really fun. Also, Kari and Jay are terrific instructors. They cue really well and the fact that they are "tag-teaming" makes the workout fly. Before you know it, you're stetching out. Great addition to any collection.I hope that this is the first of more videos together with them.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A true celebration of step!, June 11, 2001

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"minervapc" (Waltham, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Classic Step [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This workout is the best! I've been stepping for 8 years and many routines are too short (30 minutes or less) or too boring. Step up, step down, step up, step down. I knew Jay and Kari already - I had one of Kari's workouts and Jay was in one of my Jane Fonda step tapes. I read a review that said it was a celebration of step, and I was inspired to get it.

I watched the tape (as I ate dinner!). And then I gave it a whirl. I couldn't get all of the steps on my first try. But the second time I tried it, I could do it. It was a blast. It's like a dance. And it's a challanging workout for body AND mind. In my collection of over 20 workout tapes, this is the only one that I never find myself saying, "How many more reps until I can go on to the next move?"

I wish Kari and Jay would do another step tape as fun and interesting as this one!