The filming of the 1/2008 Release went off on Friday November 2 and Saturday November 3!
There was an extra special guest on the filming of BODYJAM™ 44 – 17-year-old Lien Michiels. Lien has been a BODYJAM™ instructor at her parents’ gym in Belgium since she was 15 and an avid fan of BODYJAM™ since 2002. She traveled to New Zealand with her Mum, Dad and sister Anne courtesy of Make-A-Wish – a foundation that grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. Lien impressed the BODYJAM™ team consisting of myself, Rachael Newsham and Portugal’s Matteo Cerruti with her stylish moves and beautiful attitude. Check out her inspirational story here…
Another big highlight was the filming of BODYATTACK™ 60! Big ups to Lisa Osborne – 60 releases of BODYATTACK™ is definitely worth celebrating. Lis took to the stage with New Zealand’s Bevan James Eyles, Karin Zandstra from the Netherlands and Dean Lightbody from Australia.
Lis and Dean were also part of the team for BODYSTEP™ 71. They were joined by Mark Nu’u, Sarah Robinson and Australia’s Kirsty Robbie.
Jackie Mills lead a BODYBALANCE™ 40 team of Corey Baird, Hong Kong’s Jean Goh and Dione Ware and Matt Sadler – both from Australia. IMT Pete Manual made his BODYVIVE™ debut with support from Susan Trainor and Maureen Baker for the filming of BODYVIVE™ 6
RPM™ 38 had a stellar line-up of Dan McDonogh, Glen Ostergaard, Sarah Ostergaard and Amy Styles and in BODYCOMBAT™ 35 Dan Cohen and Rachael Newsham were joined by Claudia Siera from the Netherlands. Glen was on stage again with the BODYPUMP™ 65 team of Susan Tolj, Mark Sinclair, Brazil’s Cris Tourinho and Australia’s Shannon Cleary.
Special thanks to all the international presenters who made the long journey to Auckland and worked insanely hard while they were here helping create that LES MILLS™ magic.