Everybody Salsa (Box Set, 4 Cassettes) [UK IMPORT] [VHS]

I Text as on DVD cases

DVD 1
1. Dedicated to footwork and designed to allow the body to get used to the basic Salsa steps.
2. Learn how to move the upper body and hips. Basic steps are repeated and then incorporated into a complete salsa routine.
3. Dance with a partner combining all the moves you have learnt so far.

DVD 2
1. Reviews basic Salsa steps, then concentrates on footwork and basic step variations including backwards and forwards movement.
2. Focusing on upper body movement incorporated into basic steps, also including shoulder work and half and full body turns.
3. Focus on partner work, basic turns and footwork and concludes with a full Salsa dance workout.

DVD 3
Irene and her team will take you through nine easy to follow dance routines enabling you to dance confidently with your partner to the Mambo, Merengue and Cha Cha Cha!

DVD 4
Irene will take you through six Pilates excercise blocks designed to restore and improve your posture, lengthen, strengthen and tone your entire body, improve and increase body awareness and mobility and keep your whole body in tune.

II Personal comments

So, only the first two discs are about learning Salsa. Depending on your previous experience with dancing, you may need more or less practise. Repeating lessons with a DVD is easy. If you master what is demonstrated, then you are certainly no absolute beginner anymore. However, to my reference, it just brings you up to a beginners level. What's more, know what kind of Salsa style you want to learn. As I'm not an expert I can not give you the name of this style, but its basic movement is with 3 steps and a tap. Another style is 3 steps with a rest. Let alone the difference in more complex movements.

In a dance school a new lesson is likely to start with rehearsing what you have already learned. This is also the case on the DVD's. To my judgement a waste, as each part on a DVD can be replayed as often as needed.

On each DVD there is only about one hour of material. So, all material would nearly fit on 1 disc instead of 4. The other 3 and all the packaging are waste.

Video editing is poor, as many parts end with loud sound clicks.

The camera angle feature of the DVD technology is not used, which is a very usefull instructional feature in this case.

For a 4 box set, my expectations were considarably higher, than what was actually delivered. Making it too expensive too. Next to all this, I wanted to improve on the New York Salsa style and this is definitely something else.

Well, I hope that the above will help anybody else to make a more informed buying decision than I did.

Enjoy Salsa!

Am Ende von DVD 2 ist man dann endlich soweit, die erste Grundfigur zu vermitteln. Wer dann aber meint, jetzt geht es in DVD 3+4 richtig an's Eingemachte hat sich getäuscht: Hier werden die Grundschritte von Mambo, Merengue etc. + ein Fitness-/Aerobic-Programm vorgestellt.

Sicher, hätte ich mir die Großaufnahme vom Cover der DVD-Box genauer angesehen, wäre mir das aufgefallen... aber ich habe mich vom Titel täuschen lassen.