Darrin's Dance Grooves

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Summary: Darrin u 2 be bad
Review: The video seriously disappointed me. I love working out to dance work out videos, but this has been the worst. I like to to dance, but it takes a comprehensive break down of each 8 count for me and then practice at the normal beat of each 8 count before I can move one to a new set. If you are like that too, I recommend getting something else before buying this one. I do recommend Paula Abdul's Get up and Dance. She breaks down each 8 count and then practices each 8 count up to tempo before moving on. It is challenging and yet completely doable and offers a great way to sweat off some calories, whereas with Darrin's Dance Grooves, I didn't feel any real calorie burning sweat at all.

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Summary: Not what I expected but still good.
Review: Darrin does a really good job at breaking down the moves, just as advertised. I suppose my expectations were too high, but it was a good video. I just wish each routine were a bit longer. I'm used to doing longer dances so the 30 second routines were a bit disappointing. But otherwise, worth the money.

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Summary: Well...
Review: I agree that the camera angels are not great, and the fact that he goes through ALL of the moves before putting them together is not good. When he does put it all together i would have liked him to move a little faster, being that it is SLOW compared to with music. However, I don't really agree with the not mirroring part... some other videos of mine dont mirror, so im used to it. All is all, its not the BEST video- (one i really like is "go fatima- learn to dance" in which you learn Backstreet Boys and Aaliyah), but if you want to learn some n sync and britney its worth it.

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Summary: Very Disappointing.
Review: I bought this for fun during the Thanksgiving holiday for my 9 year old daughter and me, and for the relatives to join in with us - but none of us could follow this video. This video is not even worth paying the discounted price. If I could rate this video with zero stars, that would be my choice.

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Summary: TERRIBLE
Review: I have to say, I was totally stoked when I ordered this awful video...it looked like so much fun! Well, I watched it once and gave up on it. First of all, whoever mentioned that he was confusing about distinguising his left to your left was totally right....i couldn't follow the moves at all! And this whole video was so narcisstic-it was Darren promoting himself for 3/4 of it! Total waste of money. PLEASE don't buy it!

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Summary: Hard
Review: This video is extremely hard. They claim that they break it down but when they go back over it with you, they show video clips of the moves and not of the whole body. I don't recommend this video and think the moves are bad...

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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: I bought this tape so I could add more variety to my excersize routine. I have the Latin Fat Blaster from the Crunch series and enjoy doing dance for cardio and thought this would be more of the same. I was very wrong, I wish I had read the reviews here before I bought it.
I expected there to be about 50 minutes of dancing and about 5 minutes of information about Darrin but it seems like it's the other way around. You get to hear Darrin talk about himself in between each routine which equals more time on him than doing any dancing. It is obvious that he loves himself because the camera is always on him and almost always on his upper body and face which is frustrating when your trying to guesse what the heck to do with your feet. He does go through the moves very slowly but you only go through the routine twice before you are ready to go at full speed. I think it would have been very helpful for him and the dancers to go through the routine once before having you do it along with him.
Of course you can always re-wind the tape and do it over but since I dont like the instructor or the instructions its very hard to want to do it more than once.
Im not a clutz and catch on very quickly, I was just dissapointed in the quality of this tape and had hoped for more. If your buying this at all for any kind of excersize just dont. Its not worth your money.

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Summary: I recomend this
Review: This is something just anyone could use to learn how to dance. Darrin within minutes shows you how to dance to videos which look so complicated on t.v. This video will not take more than a couple of days to get the steps down just as good or better than the real music videos. I highly recomend this on DVD.

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Summary: {Bad] beyond belief
Review: I would absolutely not recommend this video to anyone. Let me tell you what it contains:
If the video is 40 minutes long, about 32 minutes showcase Darrin talking about himself.
It promises to teach you the steps to three videos. The problem is, it only contains the steps to about 20 seconds from each video. And even those parts are badly explained and hard to do.

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Summary: SAVE YOUR MONEY!!!
Review: I bought this as a way to add some structured dance moves to my workout program. I wish Wal-Mart would take it back! This video is a fluff piece about DARRIN! Most of the video is him or some other blurb meister hyping him up. Even if you are a great hip hop dancer, (I am) you can't keep up with his nonsense. Example, DARRIN will explain one move and do something totally different. His suggestion to the viewer-KEEP REWINDING! Who wants to keep rewinding. Also, his terminology is for people who actually take formal dance. My advice to DARRIN is K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid) or just stop making videos.