Cameron Shayne - Budokon for Beginners
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Actor: Cameron ShayneBrand: GAIAM AMERICAS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 70 minutes
Published: 2004
DVD Release Date: 2004-12-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Gaiam
DVD Reviews of Cameron Shayne - Budokon for Beginners
DVD Review: Super!
Summary: 4 Stars
This workout program is AMAZING!... i purchased the beginners video and i've done it a few times, it really gives you more energy and is fun to do. Im really NOT a working out person, and this has been so fun to me that im doing budokon and zumba every week (hope to keep it up!)DVD Review: An interesting workout
Summary: 5 Stars
I've done some karate and used to love yoga so this fusion workout sounded like something interesting to try. I was expecting a program that combined the two into some new form of exercise but that's not really what it is. There's a yoga section, a martial arts section and then a qigong section. It's made me want to get back into yoga and learn more about qigong. My flexibility needs some work before I can get the full benefit from this yoga section. Overall, I like the idea of this program.DVD Review: Great workout
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this for my boyfrient who is into MMA. He has used it several times and already has increased his flexibility and balance. This is a great buy!DVD Review: No cooldown
Summary: 4 Stars
This DVD presents an accessible version of Budokon, a truly exhilarating practice. For those new to both martial arts and yoga, this will probably be challenging. For those new to just one of the two arts, it's a pleasurable and "doable" challenge. If you are experienced in both, you might find this DVD boring or easy; I suggest one of his non-beginner tapes (in which the yoga and martial arts are actually fused.)
As someone in the second category (early intermediate yogi with no martial arts experience), I found the workout intense, fun, and addictive. The yoga sequence was pleasing, creating some heat but no pain. The martial arts segment unleashed explosive power I never knew I had. Together, they created a workout rush like I haven't felt in ages, and certainly not after just 40 minutes. I was on top of the world after finishing this DVD.
There are some problems, though. It isn't smart to go straight from full-on punch-and-kick sweat into meditation; you need a cooldown of slower-paced movement in between. This is an egregious omission from someone who seems to know a lot about exercise. If you do this DVD, I *highly* recommend inserting your own cooldown. It almost hurt to enter meditation with my heart pounding so hard, and because of it I had chest pains the next day. That shouldn't happen.
Also, the chaptering of this DVD is crummy. What is worse, every time you have to restart the DVD due to screensaver interventions, etc., it takes you back to the beginning and Gaiam's horrible introductory advertisement.
To those who say this isn't really fusion, you're right when it comes to this DVD but wrong when it comes to Budokon. I did a 3-hour Budokon workshop with live senseis, and they taught advanced techniques that were indeed karate/yoga fusion. The content of this DVD is more like pre-Budokon. It builds a good yoga/martial arts foundation for real Budokon, but it doesn't include any of real Budokon's highly original poses and combinations.
Still, it's powerful, compelling exercise that makes you feel strong and energized, and could spark what might later become an authentic Budokon practice.
DVD Review: Too verbose, the fusion just does not work
Summary: 1 Stars
I had great expectations for this, however I cannot work with his incessant instructions and pauses. If you want a good yoga flow, look elsewhere. For martial arts, go to a martial arts class, or learn a few katas and get your dynamic tension that way. One last word, avoid kicking in the air!
Description of Cameron Shayne - Budokon for Beginners
A rousing fusion of fast-paced Ashtanga yoga, explosive martial arts and life-affirming meditation, Cameron Shayne?s Budokon system puts Eastern practices on a new plane. Anyone looking for a high-energy workout that also sharpens mental focus and brings a deeper feeling of purpose will find it on their own terms with Budokon. Shayne?s personal energy and passionate mastery of all three disciplines is affecting; the kicks and punches are exhilarating; and the meditations are both grounding and eye opening.The cover touts it as "the reunion of martial arts, yoga, and meditation," but for those who have practiced those disciplines separately but not in combination, Cameron Shayne's Budokon Beginning Practice offers a fresh, even unique approach to a home exercise regimen. Yoga, martial arts, and meditation don't actually commingle in this approximately 38-minute program (also included is a version that's about 10 minutes shorter); a fairly traditional, 20-minute yoga practice (for creating "power through stillness") is followed by 15 minutes of martial arts ("power through movement") and about three minutes of meditation ("power through emptiness"). The yoga asanas, including forward bends, lunges, twists, standing poses, and several sun salutations, provide a good stretch and warm-up for the martial arts moves; the latter, with their short, vigorous punches and kicks mostly performed from a traditional "fighting stance," offer a contrast to the slower, deeper yoga postures, and the sequence of the two is genuinely invigorating. Shayne, a martial arts master who also knows his yoga, provides excellent instruction throughout, and easier versions of the yoga poses are demonstrated. There's also a "pose guide" option, accessible both separately and during the workout, to explicate all the poses and movements in greater detail. --Sam Graham
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