Keep it hard-athletic!
PLEASE!!--no hi-lo!! I find that sooo boring....Keep it hard athletic, I like the suggestions of Imax-style, and the use of athletic drills. There are very few quality instructors making quality workouts with an advanced, athletic approach, and there's lots of dancey/hi-lo videos out there. Dancey/hi-lo is boring, doesn't get/keep the heart rate up (without a lot of pounding). If I want simple dancey/hi-lo low-heart rate fare I'll buy another instructor's tapes.
Another suggestion for the half hour is quality professional use of the stability ball, going beyond the standard familiar exercises. Functional moves that work the core. On that note, I don't want traditional ab work--I've got plenty of that from your most of your videos, and I usu do far more functional moves when you're doing repeated variations on the standard crunch, which only works a very limited range of the abs--functional core work gets so much deeper, fuller. PLEASE do not keep repeating what you've already done, and what many other videos are doing. Be more original, ADD to your body of work, round it out. I like the core work you've been doing the last couple of series--you've been working a far greater range of the abdominal muscles, and that's a very good, and functional, thing. If you were to do a stability ball focus on serious strengthening of the core, you could incorporate yoga poses that really get in there, and hold them for a long time--planks are always great, but there are many more that work the core intensely. Then a good long yoga stretch.
PLEASE, Cathe, keep in mind there are very few high-quality advanced athletic instructors out there, and there's a plethora of dancey/hi-lo lightweight videos out there. Those of us who want professional, athletic, challenging workouts have few options! I turn to you and Myndy hungry for a real athletic challenge!
Also, sometimes I like to string several of your stretches together at the end of a workout (I have a 5-disk DVD player), and you do a lot of the same stretches in each workout--could you vary the cooldown stretch of each workout so that we'd get a varitey of stretches thruout each workout?
And, please ensure the camera has legs in the picture and that in the editing process we can see all the body--there's a few times in KPC where you're changing the legs and all I can see is what the arms are doing. I'm not a kickboxer, so I don't know from your verbal instruction what you're doing. I have to wait til the legs are eventually shown to be able to follow.
And, can you let us know what the beginner workouts will be like--I won't purchase them unless I know for sure I could make it challenging for me. I hate to pass up any of your workouts, but if it won't challenge me there's no need to have it.
I enjoyed most of the music in IS moreso than in BB. I second the suggestion of someone who said no breakup/woman-down songs--let's have positive, upbeat music/lyrics that empowers us.
