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West Coast Pilates: The Towel/Matwork Program [VHS]

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If you are passionate about Pilates, you probably have bought every video you can find. However, once you watch the West Coast Pilates Towel/Mat video, you will forget all the others. The towel work exercises are a great addition to the traditional mat exercises and offer a challenging and very effective workout.
The cueing is clear and really helps you understand exactly what you are suppose feel. The pace of the exercises gives you a great workout without leaving you behind. This video is a must for anyone serious about their Pilates work.

Wonderful video. Complete and thorough. Excellent presentation and true to the real Pilates. I did research on instructor Corey and found out she is Master Teacher who learned Pilates from a Master Teacher taught by Joseph Pilates himself! Great credibilty! Nice to know the real thing in an ocean of wanna be's! Video contains important basics and provides for a real challenge for advanced students. Long term resource- great value.

I love this video and the instructor is great! No music to distract you and your breathing and the directions are straight forward and precise...Its nice to see an older woman teaching the class!! You WILL love it!

I think this video was very well done. It is easy to follow, the explanations of the exercises are great, and with the three different people doing beginning, intermediate, advanced, it is appropriate for any level. Also because it essentially has three different levels on one tape, a person does not have to end up spending alot of money buying a new tape each time he or she progresses or changes his mind about the level.

The West coast work is also different from many of the other pilates videos out there. It combines many of the traditional exercises with some new and innovative things. I love it!

Great workout. Video details basic pilates principles and offers a total body workout. I have sculpted and legthened areas of my body that I have never been able to reach. The video is clear and easy to follow. All levels of instruction and I have quickly advanced. Highly recommend. Worth every penny.

I viewed this video expecting to see Pilates mat-work blended with Ron Fletcher's trademarked Fletcher Towel-work TM program. Having studied with Ron Fletcher, I found it exciting to have found a video advertising the use of his creative work. Instead, Corey's "take" on Fletcher's work vastly differs from the specifity and creativity one should expect from a Fletcher-trained teacher of the Pilates method. Not only does she show Fletcher's towel work performed incorrectly and without Fletcher's distinct awareness of Focus and use of Breath to guide each movement, but she also fails to credit Fletcher's trademarks in her description of the work. All in all, I was vastly dissappointed and alarmed at the apparent misrepresentation put forth by Ms. Corey.

As far as related items, the Ron Fletcher Program of Study has recently produced a video titled: "The Ron Fletcher Towel-Work TM DVD". The Fletcher Towel-Work TM DVD is produced by Ron Fletcher himself, with several of his Master and Senior teachers. The movements are much more illustrative of the creativity of one of the last living Pilates Master Teachers; Ron Fletcher.

I really enjoy this video. The instruction is clear and the routine has done great things for my body. I could not be without this video.

A motivating and challenging fusion of traditional Pilates matwork, Ron Fletcher inspired towelwork, and contemporary innovations, this video is the only of its kind. In no other video will you find this dynamic, modern approach to Pilates work. Top-notch Master Teacher Kathy Corey artfully leads three of her students as they demonstrate beginners, intermediate & advanced variations. This video finally makes the wonderful West Coast Pilates tradition available to a wider audience.

The best feature of this video series is that beginner, intermediate and advance positions/techniques are demonstrated and explained. Progression can be done as appropriate for the student or particular area of the body just by watching a different person. There is voice overlay of special instructions and breath patterns. Exercises are varied and paced well for a good work-out.

Compared to other video's this one is exceedingly rudimentary.
The towel work is a varitation on the wand, just using a towel instead. Nothing new. The mat work is neither integritive, nor classical. Joe would laugh at it.............