For Elise Ho, her trip to participate in Les Mills’ Masterclass filming in Auckland, New Zealand was a very special experience.
Each year in Canada, GoodLife Fitness selects an Instructor of the Year. Last year there were 23 nominees out of 1400 instructors in the country, and Elise made the top five finalists. When Elise’s name was called out as the winner it was a dream come true. Along with her announcement included a free trip to Auckland to participate in the filming.
The highlights of her trip to Auckland included an excursion to West Coast’s Piha Beach which was hosted by Phillip Mills for all the overseas guests, getting to shadow BODYATTACK™ with Mark Sinclair and team teaching BODYATTACK™ with Lisa Osborne.
Needless to say, participating in the Masterclass filming was also a highlight. Day One saw the BODYJAM™ team take to the stage first with Program Director Gandalf Archer, NZ’s Chris Richardson and France’s Arnaud Clot-Godard. An out-of-this-world BODYSTEP™ team consisting of Program Director Mark Nu’u, Lisa Osborne, Sarah Robinson, Georgina Clark (all from NZ) and USA’s Nate Stokes was next. Following this was BODYPUMP™ with Program Director Glen Ostergaard, Head Trainer Susan Renata, Ireland’s Niamh McGuirk and Don Murphy from the USA. Fellow Canadian Maureen O’Hagan joined the BODYBALANCE™/BODYFLOW® team which included Program Director Jackie Mills, NZ’s Corey Baird and Christelle Sollier and Jan Roggeveen from the Netherlands (pictured - Elise is third from the left).
Day 2 of filming started with the RPM™ team of Program Director Glen Ostergaard, Dan McDonogh and USA’s Heather Bedell. Next up was the BODYVIVE™ team of Program Director Susan Trainor, NZ’s Maureen Baker and Dr. David McKenzie and UK’s Kathryn Cullen. They were followed by an all-Kiwi BODYATTACK™ team of Program Director Lisa Osborne, Amy Styles, Grant Goes, Will Brereton and Bevan James Eyles. To finish off the 2/2008 filming round was BODYCOMBAT™ 40 – a very special tenth birthday release! Program Directors Dan and Rachael Cohen were joined by Hernan Lopez and UK’s Tanya Walker.
For Elise, who teaches at BODYATTACK™, BODYBALANCE™/BODYFLOW® and BODYSTEP™ at GoodLife Fitness Clubs in Markham, her trip to New Zealand was “everything I dreamt it would be and more”.
Fellow instructors from Toronto, Canada came as a team to support Maureen O’Hagan in the BODYBALANCE™/BODYFLOW® filming.