| | |  | Merengue | Home » » » » Samba Party Workout 2 - Brazilian Carnival Grooves | | | | | | | Description: | | The excitement of a real Latin party in an easy-to-follow, all-samba workout. It s like a party in Rio de Janeiro, complete with motivating live drummers and an outdoor Brazilian street set. This is the second DVD of the series, a bit more challeging but still as fun as the first one. Vanessa Isaac makes it very do-able; she uses just six samba moves and teaches them in an understandable way. Once you ve mastered the movements, you ll just naturally add your own style (e.g. an upper body shake, a hip roll, maybe a few shimmies). There is also a 10-minute instructional segment showing the six dance steps used in the workout. Named on of the top 10 DVDs by yourexercisedvd.com: The problem with many cardio dance DVDs is that they're all style and little sweat; they have choreography that's hard to learn; and once you learn the steps, you still don't get much of a workout. Vanessa Isaac has solved all that with her fun and simple approach to Brazilian dance. This Samba-inspired routine has moves you can take to the dance floor, is easy enough for beginners to learn, and will raise your heart rate! | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Vanessa Isaac | | Director:
| Renee Bergan | | Format:
| NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Hip Brazil | | Run Time:
| 40 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| March 28, 2006 | | Average Customer Rating:
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27 of 27 found the following review helpful:
Dance Fitness with South American FlairApr 17, 2006
By taarna11 The first thing I noticed was the set. The video is filmed outdoors at night with live drums. Add in instructor Vanessa Isaac & company's vibrant costumes, and you do get a lively "Carnaval" party feel.
Isaac is great with cuing, always letting you know what's coming up. However, beginners may have trouble getting the footwork down. There is a seperate feature independent of the workout that shows you individual Samba moves in slow mo and at tempo so you can practice and get more comfortable with the steps...very helpful if the choreography confuses you. The nice thing about the video is that Isaac encourages you to add your own flair and expression to the moves, rather than doing them exactly as she does.
The workout itself is energetic, more traditionaly "dancey" with cha cha cha's, box steps, grapevines, turns, all with a Samba touch. There is a basic move you can always go back to if you get lost. You can adjust the intensity of your workout by exaggerting the steps and incorporating your arms more. Isaac starts with a thorough warm up, followed by about 30 min. of Samba, and then closes with a relaxing cooldown.
There is also a special feature interviewing the backup dancers about Samba, and what benefits they think users of the video will walk away with.
I really enjoyed the energy of this video. I love Latin dance, so being able to do the Samba as a workout was great! Very fun, and a nice deviation from traditional workouts.
14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Good non-stop dance for BEGINNERS Preview at collagevideoJul 12, 2007
By Touch Remedy
"TouchRemedy"
Vanessa had a previous dvd called "Brazilian Dance Workout" that had great ideas, but she didn't teach enough & used many stage-style complicated steps. This is her 2nd of the Samba workouts where she fixed those mistakes. The menu options are: Guidelines, Complete workout, Workout chapters, Learning the moves, Interview with the Cast, About Brazil & Credits It's set on the street with 5 girls dancing backup & live band on the sidewalk. She teaches the steps not only in it's own menu option: basic move (easy watered-down samba), samba grapevine, samba box (more open regular box step), samba (samba easy step & raises heart rate), samba cha cha (cha cha w/a simple step out to each side easy) & samba double twist (hips twisted a little, feet never cross, more open easy then her vol. 1 samba twist) but also when she first introduces the dvd. She teaches in half times a few times with some basic cues which is enough to get it for almost anyone. The pace is great, she doesn't let you take a break, only drop to basic easy slow-paced samba step in between. She builds up the 6 different steps into a routine. The workout never stops, but it is watered down & the pace is good, but the moves are always executed a little more slowly then they would be normally, wish there were more moves & the band is just percussion, I wish there was more instruments. This is great for those who don't know how latin dance & moderately workout. Those who are in great shape & already know latin dancing might find this too easy both in pace & execution of the moves.
There's a trailer of this & her other dvds at: collegevideo
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Samba Party Workout vol 2May 21, 2007
By Janel This workout is great! I started by using Vanessa Isaac's Samba Party vol. 1 for a month and then tried this one. I was really surprised how much she stepped up the pace with vol. 2... surprised in a good way! I thought I was working hard with vol. 1, but it took me 2 weeks of dancing to vol. 2 before my muscles stopped screaming at me every workout. The dancing is even more fun than vol. 1 with all new moves except for your basic move. She'll have you grape-vining, doing some more complicated fast steps, doing a new samba box, cha-cha-cha'ing, and moving your hips around in a fun party step. I love alternating between vol. 1 & 2 now and my stamina is definitely improved after adding this volume! Definitely buy these DVD's (or VHS's)... they're super fun and they WORK... I'm getting compliments on looking thin and I know my tummy's tighter and legs are in great shape!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
A video as fun to watch as it is to exercise with.Oct 15, 2006
By Midwest Book Review Brazilian samba sanding is the perfect sound for exercise, and Brazilian dancer Vanessa Isaac has developed a high-energy routine that uses live drums and inspiring pulses to get you moving. SAMBA PARTY WORKOUT 2 provides a hot cardio workout spiced with the best of Brazilian beats, and presented by a host of dancers in a video as fun to watch as it is to exercise with.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Another great samba party workout from Vanessa!Dec 25, 2007
By Fitness Fan If you liked Samba Party Workout 1, you'll like Samba Party 2 even more! Some great new moves by Vanessa. The workout is approximately 35 minutes with warmup and cooldown. The set design is the same as Samba Party 1 and it still is my favorite background of all of the dance workouts I own.
If you have a carpeted surface, you will probably have a hard time with this workout...I just wear socks so that I can twist around without messing up my knees. There's just one little hop in terms of impact.
I'm hoping for a Samba Party Workout 3 from Vanessa!!!
Recommend to high beginners and intermediates.
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