Product: Sunrise Tai Chi (2005)
Rating: 3.0
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Sunrise Tai Chi is an interesting DVD. It is different and not exactly what I expected. Overall it is a great and informative DVD. It provides you with a 20, 40, and 60 minute workout to choose from. With over four hours of instruction and demonstrations you should feel comfortable knowing how to do the exercises. But here in lies my problem with the DVD. That is four hours of instruction and demonstrations without any real organization, other than being divided up into instruction and demonstrations. You can either watch the entire thing or you can select to start watching from a specific exercise but everything is bunched together. There is no "beginners class" that just goes over the exercises in the 20 minute workout, which is where I am sure almost everyone will want to start. Likewise for the 40 and 60 minute workouts.You can watch the entire thing, learning all the exercises and then go back and start with whichever workout you want. Though a lot of the exercises are not in the 20 minute workout. If this sounds good to you then you should really like this DVD. If however you are more like me in that you would like to be taught a foundation and then build up from that, then you might find this DVD a bit frustrating. This isn't like a Tai Chi class and it certainly makes it difficult for a beginner to get started. You will not be able to get this DVD and start doing the workouts right away. The workouts have little instruction for the exercises, that is what the instructions section is for which you really need to watch to be able to do the workouts properly. If the instruction was grouped together in a way that atleast matched the workouts this would be a really great DVD. The instruction is good, it is just too bad it is not better organized.