Well I think I didn´t explain myself well or sounded too radikal in my post. No, nothing to do with “Radikal Fitness”.
I agree with u all 3:
salawson : I too taught Freestyle aerobics since 1998, my first instructor course, and taught freestyle till I met LM in 2007. When I learnt arobic and how to create choreo blocks, of couse studied music. BPM and how to adjust to 32 count blocks, left and right (I liked to do it symetrical since then). There were also several insertion methods to create them, several of which I liked more than others (all this is basic stuff I guess everybody here knows). But then in 2000something some of those insertion methods I didn´t like too much became trendy, choreos too complicated (somebody years ago said people were getting away from aerobic & step classes due to its complexity, and going into fitness, circuit, hi intensity but easy choreo classes). This is what I agree with and still teach out of LM classes.
enge_chic: your Freestyle classes sound great, you make it up but seem to have LM phylosophy in mind, Only it´s not pre-choreo
And then it´s me again:I not only teach some & follow nearly all LM programs- guess the one I dont try- Jam, but also received instruction courses and practice more “functional training” (BOSU, Fitball, medicine ball, body weight exercises you can do in the park, at home, hotel or wherever and …most we do with body weight are in LM programs- see the new athletic move in body step- already did it in my yard without step and junping up instead of sthopping in front of the step . Only 10 and yr heart rate bursts. Its stiil is Hi intensity training you can mix up wih LM moves (running, skating, etc)
mymy : of course Lisa is Lisa and Freestyle surely was as great as today. She´s the BA choreographe , Isn´t she ¿so she cnn mix the best moves from her past Freestyle moves. And know what? found in BA some of the moves I did in my 1998 aerobix Freestyle exam (made up)- knee ceossover & turn, grapevine square (see all the squares done in BA).
It all of course depends on the instructor and the instruction method used when freestyling