Customer Reviews

Learn To Dance : Go Fatima ! [VHS]

5 star:		(19)
4 star:		(10)
3 star:		(10)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

I've been DYING to find a video that is a good cardio workout as well as fun, hip dance routines and this is it! I have truly missed learning dance routines from when I was a cheerleader in high school (I'm 28 now) so when I read about Fatima and the video in Women's Sports and Fitness magazine, I hopped on to amazon.com the next day and ordered this video. Its the best ( ) I've spent in awhile! I can come home from a long, hard day at work and have no energy to go for a run or do a workout tape but I pop in Go Fatima and before I know it, an hour has passed and I'm dripping with sweat! The moves are really fun and are not super easy to learn - but if they were too simple, I'd have it mastered too quickly and then its really no workout, right? My awesome exercise comes from repeating steps over and over. I hope Fatima makes more videos but this time, I would really like to learn routines to ENTIRE songs or something I could put to several songs. That's the only real reason I didn't give it 5 stars - because the Aaliyah routine is 3 separate parts of the video and the BSB routine is only from the end of the video. The clothes Fatima wears are VERY cool - and for someone who has never had formal dance training, this woman knows how to get her groove on! All I can say is, Go Fatima!

I thought this video was a lot of fun, but there was one thing about it that bothered me. Whenever Fatima was teaching the dance moves, she did not do any 'mirroring.' Everytime she would say 'right' or 'left' I was forced to try to do the opposite of what I saw on the screen. It was confusing, but overall a great purchase.

I would give this video 5 stars, but I never give anything 5 stars because giving something 5 stars means I think it's perfect, and nothing is perfect. Anyhow, I read the earlier reviews about this video "Go Fatima, Learn to dance" and their was one when a cheerleader said she thought it was so hard. Okay I'm sorry, I dance...who doesn't, but I never took classes and I'm not a gifted dancer, but this video was pretty easy. The best thing to do, is watch the whole video first and then do it. It was so fun, I did break a sweat and it doesn't feel like a workout cause it's so much fun. To know that you can do the dance routine feels really cool. It's not incredibly easy but trust me, if you can move you're feet you can do this video. Fatima is a great choreographer, and yeah her left is your right but trust me you'll get it. Hope this helped.

I LOVE dancing so much and thought this would be a great video to get. When the Aaliyah song first came out last year I actually taped the video off MTV and watched it over and over to learn all the steps. Getting this video really cleared up some things that I was doing wrong and now it's soooo much fun to do @ Clubs and school dances whenever the song comes on! ALSO, I am going on a cruise for spring break and was looking for some awesome moves that I could do on the boat and the dance that Fatima choreographs for this video is so awesome. My sister and I will be practicing for the next week before spring break arrives so we can get our GrOoVe on! I hope that ANYONE who loves dancing and is good at it will buy this video! Thanx for reading ;-)!

I have been looking for this video ever since I heard that Fatima made one. I just received it and I absolutely love it! There is not one bad thing I can say about this video. Fatima breaks everything down very well so that anyone can learn the dance routines to some of the hottest videos around. I would recommend this video to ANY person who loves to dance! You'll be amazed at how fast you pick up the routines and dance along with Fatima to Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody?" and the Backstreet Boys's "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)". Fatima even choreographed a hot new routine that you can use in the clubs! Fatima Robinson is the greatest dancer/choreographer out there! If you love to dance, buy this video!

First, based on the editoral review, I don't think that Emily Bedard watched this video, much less danced to it. Fatima may be a creative and smart choreographer, but she is not a teacher. She didn't mirror-teach the moves, which makes them more than tricky. On top of that, the camerawork was terrible. The video gives close-ups, but only of the top-half of Fatima's body, leaving you guessing on the foot work. I got so frustrated trying to learn the last section of the video; I stopped and turned it off. This was the section that Fatima is on her `giant silver pillar'. During this section, the video is in an upward angle of Fatima with no view of her feet or what they're doing; leaving this section impossible to learn. Also, Fatima didn't count to all the moves. During the Aaliyah section, Fatima made sound effects that included `bop', `bam', and `dun'. I would not classify those as "fantastic sound effects" or good counting. I will use some of the moves in my routines, but I wouldn't dare try dancing to the whole song with only the moves I learned from this video. Especially the Aaliyah video, Fatima didn't provide half of the steps to this video. I can honestly say that I learned more from the music video itself. The moves alone aren't difficult. But with all the other factors affecting the learning curve with this video, I do not recommend it.
This would be a good video if you are bored one Saturday morning and needed some different moves to add to your routine before hitting the clubs. Do not buy this video if you want a workout!

i have always tried to learn the routines to music videos, but it's hard! not anymore! fatima breaks down every step of two of her best routines from aaliyah and the bsb! plus there's a new routine that i'd never seen before! the dancing is hot, the clothes are hot, it's all hot! plus aaliyah and the bsb are on it! a must have for any dance, mtv, bsb, and aaliyah fan! i loved it! GO FATIMA!

I bought this video after seeing Fatima on The View where they were touting it as a workout video even though the cover of the package says "Learn To Dance". It is broken down into three segments.

The first segment teaches you about 30 seconds (literally) of Aaliyah's video, "Are You That Somebody." She breaks it down in three parts, teaching you about 7-10 seconds of dance at a time. The second segment teaches you about 30 seconds from the Back Street Boy's video, "Backstreet's Back" with the same format and the last segment teaches you about a minute of her own steps to which you can add your own flavor.

The entire video is 40 minutes but once you learn all the steps, your total "workout" routine lasts about 2 minutes. You learn some great steps that I'm sure you could incorporate into some hot moves in the clubs, but if you're looking for a workout video, this isn't it!

I thought this video gave an excellent experience from the best choreographer out there! This is a wonderful video especailly for all the BSB fans. If you've always wanted to learn those heart-pounding dances this is the perfect video for dancers and non-dancers alike. I hope a new one comes out with Larger Than Life and Some of Fatimas other work. Go Fatima!

This Video is an awesome video for those wanting to learn to dance in sync. Fatima does an awesome job teaching the basics of dancing.