Product Details

• Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony
• VHS Release Date: October 12, 1999
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305603804
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #305,921 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Grind Workout: Tai-Funk Aerobics is an odd blend of two very different styles--box aerobics and funk-style dance--but it works. The workout is clearly designed for young exercisers (the heart-rate chart starts at age 15), with the moves demonstrated by a group of boisterously enthusiastic, good-looking, youthful dancers: young women with perfect bare midriffs and buffed young men. First Dimitri Ehrlich leads a slow nai kung warm-up, consisting of kung fu postures that include isometric exercises and stretches. Then Heidi Van Ambergh starts the dance workout by demonstrating a few complex steps of a routine, and in turn, the other dancers each teach a few more steps, stringing them together as they go. The moves are mostly funk, with some self-defense arm work and kicks. Coordination and attitude definitely required! Good production quality, except that the ever-changing camera angles may frustrate you when you're first learning the moves. The workout is hosted by C-Note, a modern rhythm & blues group, who sing a song during the cool down. The video ends with a demonstration of some self-defense moves you can practice and use in time of need. --Joan Price

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Read This Before Buying, January 10, 2000

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A. Mischler (Sullivan, Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Grind Workout: Tai Funk Aerobics [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Although the Tai Funk Dance moves are fun to learn, this video is not what it promised. Camera angles make it difficult to learn the dance moves for one thing. Next, once you do manage to learn the routine, they only do the whole routine three times before the video concludes. Most exericse videos, such as Tai Bo, teach the moves individually and then have a 20-30 minute routine encompassing all you've learned. I didn't even work up a sweat doing this workout. Therefore, if your only interested in learning some new dance moves, then purchas this video. If you are actually wanting to exercise, purchase Tai Bo.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, Fun Workout with an awesome view!, October 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Grind Workout: Tai Funk Aerobics [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I completely love this workout...not only does it allow you to dance and get your heartrate going, but it is not boring...C-Note totally gets you pumped and I have to say that the cool down serenade is worth working out for... The self defense techniques at the end are a great bonus. I have to say that having cnote there throughot the whole workout is a great reason to do it every day.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hotttttttttt Young Men, but...., November 19, 2002

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Nordeqka (Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Grind Workout: Tai Funk Aerobics (DVD)

That now is my main attraction to the tape because the instruction is so well-done it drags onnnnnnnn and onnnnnnnn... However it is an interesting, unique concept - the mixture of dance and gentle martial arts moves, but... there's too much talking and not enough moving. It takes forever to gain momentum then when you nail the sequence they move on to the next endlessly-long break-down of instruction. This tape does have a great *fun* engergy level, it's sexy, and if you like gazing at male 20-somethings in their resplendent, physical prime, it's hard to go wrong. In fact...even when I'm mentally critquing this tape's bad points, I'm praising the physical beauty that abounds. Men, men, men.

Some of the moves are very intriguing, challaging, and the concept is grand but the usefulness points are few and far between. You basically stand around and 'wait' in this one. If they would have grouped instruction from actual routines it would made all the difference in pace and satisfaction.

Buy it as either an innocent, sexual novelity or a tape to provide a very-occasional physical work-out diversion when you want to practice extreme patience or Disney's version of a high school gym atmosphere when the cheerleaders and jocks are at their best (said with a grin).