Customer Reviews

Grind Workout: Tai Funk Aerobics

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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.

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.

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).

I am 35 and found this video very frustrating. The beginning is a good warm up with interesting Tai chi moves. The dance part is all instruction on learning one routine, taking 20 minutes, then executing it only once. I was sweating very little. The camera angle moves right when you really need it, away from the dancers bodies , to thier faces. I would not recommend this video. However my 7 year old liked watching the group C-Note perform at the end.

I think this is the worst Grind video ever made. I don't care for C-Note in it and I don't like the fact that Eric is not in this one as he is a great workout leader. It is also a boring video as it tends to drag on and on and then when it gets good if you have carpet some moves can be hard to do. My advise is to skip this one and go for one of the other Grind videos.

If you have some dance experience, this is a good video. I felt like I got a good work out, and I had fun doing it. I didn't find the self defense section very useful. Self-defense is better learned in a class with a live instructor. If you like to dance you'll like this video.

This is a terrible workout video unless you like to learn the moves and then do them on your own. First of all the moves were hard to pick up because the camera is viewing at terrible angles and half the time an information screen blocks out the whole picture.

I spent a lot of time jogging in place or doing my own thing while C note stood around blabbing. The program is very disjointed. If you appreciate the fluidity of going from move to move like Tae-Bo then you'll be bored out of your skull with this video.

There are many better videos out there. Don't bother with this one.

When I bought this video, I expected it to be great. I love kickboxing, and I have been dancing since I was three. (I am thirteen now.)

I am an advanced dancer, and the moves were nearly impossible. This is not because they were too difficult, but they only show you the move once, and then go into "hyperspeed." Also, the awkward camera angles were horrible. Half the time they showed C-Note when I was trying to master the steps.

C-Note is a joke. They talk about the ancient martial art forms when it is obvious they have no clue what they're talking about. And if I hear those guys say, "Y'all" one more time, I'm chucking the tai funk aerobics tape out the window. That movement with my arm would give me about the level of fitness I reached with C-Note.

This video was kind of hard at first, but once I got the routine down, I absolutely loved it. I love to dance and this workout was more like a dance than any exercise video I had ever done before. Plus, I lost about 10 lbs., after about 4-5weeks of doing it 4 days a week. So, if you love to dance this one is definitely one for you!!!!

The only thing I like about this video was the beginning warm up with Chi Kung. That part was something to learn and use regularly. The workout is just a group of people teaching us one section at a time of a dance routine which is kind of complicated. After finally getting it down its not something you would want to do again. I was really dissapointed with this video.