CompleteMartialArts.com - Khi Bae - Ultimate Aerobic Kickboxing Workout
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List Price: $7.98
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Manufacturer: Allumination
Starring: Silk Manning
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: ALLUMINATION FILM WORKS LLC
EAN: 0084296401192
Format: Color
Label: Allumination
Manufacturer: Allumination
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Allumination
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-01-02
Running Time: 59
Studio: Allumination
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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"Mr. Fitness Champion" Silk Manning guides you through an aerobic kickboxing workout with both Beginner Basic and Intermediate workouts to tone and shape your muscles.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HEALTH/FITNESS Rating: NR UPC: 084296401192 Manufacturer No: 40119
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Summary: The shorts he wears will keep you focused...
Comment: This is an extremely CORNY workout, but I like it. I find myself reaching for it when I want to do some cardio a lot more than my other DVDs. It's simple jabbing, punching and kicking. I agree with the other reviewer, the introduction that you can't skip past is nauseating, but just push play go get your water and come back. He's an interesting guy. Ladies, the shorts he wears will kepp you laughing/staring. That's got to be a sock in there.
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Summary: Cheesy but better than Tae Bo
Comment: I find this workout to be a better kickboxing workout than tae bo. If you are just purely into aerobics, tae bo may be right for you. If you want to do actual kickboxing moves, khi bae is a better choice. I like how it actually puts emphasis on footwork and basic form. The warmup and cooldown are approprate for a cardio workout. Though the main workouts are short (you can replay them you know)for well conditioned people, the combos are progressed nicely instead of sporadically going from one thing to another like tae bo. I like how making windmill motions with you hands (as in tae bo) are replaced with uppercuts (that you actually use in kickboxing). I've been in martial arts for years and recommend this for anyone who wants to learn some basic kickboxing and get a cardio workout.
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Summary: beginners: ignore snotty comments from "advanced" exercisers
Comment: This video is years old by now, so maybe there are better ones out there - or aerobics studios that offer cheap classes - but I rather liked the 20 minute version of Khi Bae that came with my 8 minute abs.
If there are beginners out there who are put off by all the snippy comments about this video, don't forget that these people all say that they are advanced. Therefore, what is "too easy" for them may very well be challenging and a great place for you to begin.
I would ordinarily be as annoyed as they about the blonde woman in the back (who is clearly no expert). It's not a good idea to teach bad form, after all. But in this video, the instructor is very clearly the one to watch for form, so that is not, I don't think, the issue. What you so-called advanced exercisers may not have realized is that people who are not fit or particularly coordinated may actually see the blonde woman as inspirational - not someone to aspire TO, but rather, as someone who is willing to give it her best (ON CAMERA, no less), so they may feel just a little less self-conscious about getting up and trying it.
And finally - it says BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE on the box - what were all of you "advanced" exercisers doing with it to begin with?
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Summary: Great Workout... But too short. Play it twice.
Comment: I know there are mixed reviews, but I really like this DVD. I've been teaching fitness classes for a long time and I got lots of great choreography to steal for my class. He builds the routines well, so it is easy for a beginner to understand the correct form. Plus - I like his music. I bought his other DVD as well. My BIG complaint is that the routines are MUCH too short. I do both of them in a row and then do something else afterwards. So it's a great cross training workout. I also like Kathy Smith's kickbox videos as the complexity of her routines are interesting, challenging and fun.
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Summary: Wow
Comment: To be honest I didn't even watch the beginner part of the DVD but went directly to the intermediate portion, I'm in fairly good shape and even being a short workout time-wise if you really do the leg and upper body work this is a really intense workout (granted if you do it with the same intensity the people in the background are doing you might as well not bother). Silk is a very commanding presence in this video and to reiterate the comments of a couple of other reviewers he is VERY conspicuous in those shorts, actually I think it makes it more interesting if you don't get hypnotized to the point of not concentrating on the workout, of course when he does some of the roundhouse and side kicks its all but impossible not to catch your breath as it looks like a softball is stuffed in there somewhere...even with my more prurient observations aside a great video and a nice change of personality from some of the more "plastic" exercise video gurus.
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