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Drills! Drills! Drills! A complete workout with finger cymbals for belly dancers of all levels
starring: Michelle Joyce
directed by: Michelle Joyce

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: DVD
EAN: 0796873040150
Format: NTSC
Label: Cheeky Girls Productions
Manufacturer: Cheeky Girls Productions
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Cheeky Girls Productions
Release Date: March 14, 2008
Running Time: 115 minutes
Studio: Cheeky Girls Productions
Sales Rank: 12504

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
This DVD is designed to help you learn to make the most of your practice time. This is not simply a workout DVD, but also a lesson in how to practice. The elements of an effective practice routine are broken down and explained as you are guided through a complete, fully body dance workout.

There are several drills at varying levels of difficulty that are designed to increase your physical strength, muscle memory, and coordination. The beginner dancer can benefit from the breakdown of the moves and the slow isolation drills, while the more advanced dancer can go straight to the chapters that incorporate finger cymbals and layering techniques.

Over time you will notice the moves becoming firmly ingrained in your muscle memory. With regular practice, you will develop a strong, trained body that can effortlessly layer shimmies with isolations and finger cymbals.

The workout includes:

-Strengthening Drills

-Isolation Drills

-Shimmy Drills

-Layering Drills

-Finger Cymbal Drills

This DVD is 2 hours in length!

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Great combination of dance and workout
When using a dance-inspired workout, I feel like I'm missing out on technique. When working with many technique videos, I feel like I'm not working out hard enough. Drills! Drills! Drills! satisfies both needs.

This is one of my favorite DVDs and one of the few I actually find myself wanting to do. More often than not, I begin another DVD just to pop this one in part way through.

The strengthening section is one of the best I've used. I thought I was fairly strong going in, but this was a real challenge.

I found the zigzag and movement drills to be challenging and extremely helpful. There are a lot of moments where you really have to concentrate on what your body is doing and this helps to focus and connect with the muscles and movement.
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Rating:

- Great drills dvd....
This is a great dvd for serious belly dancers! You may not want to actually perform some of the drills, but the point is to work on muscle memory and so on. All Michelle's dvd's have been very good so far!

Rating:

- A great DVD.... but not for beginners
First things first. This is not a DVD for people who have not learned the basic posture, movements and isolations of bellydance. If this describes you, go directly to a beginner's video, do not pass GO, do not collect $200.

The drills Michelle offers here are, for the most part, not strenuous, but you do need to have ingrained at least some basic bellydance movements to the point where you can do them without thinking: shimmies and hip bumps should be second nature.

The second key point is that the movements are, in general, geared towards helping you define your isolations, layer movements, and even use different parts of your body at different rhythms. Michelle points out several times that you may not like the moves you're drilling, and you may not want to use ... Read More

Rating:

- Great!
Although I liked Michelle's pop, lock and shimmy a little more than this one. Drills! Drills! Drills! is great practice. I would not recommend this for very beginners. She starts with some strengthing exercises (not belly dance based, but tough), goes over lots of layering and the 3/4 shimmy.

Rating:

- know what you're getting
I was totally surprised by this video---it looks like something a high school kid could have done in his basement. It starts with a young woman in grey yoga pants and a red sports bra standing in front of a camera in what looks like someone's basement.

The first four sections are nothing about dance per se---the first section you just squeeze your butt cheeks fast and slow, not kidding. Then she does yoga---a section with the plank and one with the cobra and child's pose. This is not a section on warming up, it is four totally different sections.

I thought this would be drills, drills, drills of dance moves.

The cover makes it look very professional---but it's not at all. It's hard to watch and it's hard to listen to. The woman is awkward at ... Read More

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