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Dance Off The Inches Island Cardio Party - Thoughts

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Island Cardio Party comes in a Dance Off the Inches Party Pack  titled Red Hot Dance Party that also include Latin Cardio Party which Dance Off the Inches release earlier this year or maybe it was late last year. It is a 40 minute workout and it features Emily Naim as the lead. Like other Dance Off the Inches workout, it comes with a Step Guide.  However, the Step Guide is not chaptered. I was hoping this would be a trend that they would continue as they did this for a recent release. The dances in Island Cardio Party are : Reggae DanceHall Soca Emily breaks down each dance by layering and combining moves until the full combo is learned.  The dances are super easy to learn. I like this workout. All the music fit the moves and the Island theme.  None of the tunes seem out of place and the dances are fun. The Reggae dance is probably the most athletic dance.  Some of the moves felt more like exercise than dancing.  DanceHall, I would say is the...

Dance Off The Inches Latin Cardio Party - Review

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Latin Cardio Party is the latest Dance Off the Inches workout.  Like the other DOTI workouts is clocks in at just under 45 minutes and features a warm up, three dance routines and a cool down. The workout is lead and choreograph by Emily Naim.   I was reading the back of the DVD cover and Jennifer Gilardi co-choreograph the workout. Besides Emily, there are two other cast members. The dances featured in this workout are: Samba Cumbia Reggaeton There is a Step Guide section that is about twenty minutes long and it takes you through several of the steps that appear in the three dances.  I wish this section had separate chapter points for each step she went over - to make it easier to go to the steps you wanted to work on and skip easily over the steps you did want to go over. The dances were not hard to follow. Emily takes you through a lengthy break down often teaching the move "under" tempo before taking it to full tempo.  She gives you lots of re...