Sleek Technique - Ballet Body Box Set (3 Dvd's) by Flik Swan

I'm not a ballet dancer, but I was looking for a ballet exercise DVD. This is perfect! It is challenging, there is constant encouragement to "keep moving", and a choice of longer exercise sessions, and quick ones. The exercises are explained well/ and are shown clearly. The warm up and cool down sections are important, and I'm surprised that I'm actually getting slightly more flexible. I can't do any high impact movement due to an operation 3 years ago, however, I still get a thorough aerobic workout. I enjoy the dance movements, in my heart I'm a ballet dancer, but I do know I won't be ballerina..... However, it does not matter.... it is fun, graceful, and, has lots of different workouts to keep it interesting/challenging. Brilliant!

This is so far the best ballet workout I have tried! This is invigorating, enjoyable and making you feeling graceful and toned up even after one set of 23 mins! The music is also chosen with good taste, which is a common problem for many ballet/barre type workouts, so that adds extra 6th star! I would have actually given 10!!!! My most favourite is the barre workouts from the 2nd disc, and sassy girl from the 3rd one! All in all, there are so many variations to choose from, so you never get bored and always look forward to what the next day brings! I was really fighting with MHB classes, where I had actually to force myself to do it, was too boring and too repetitive, so today I have switched over to Sleek technique, and felt relief and joy right away! Speaking of the results - hard t tell yet, as I started 2 weeks ago only, 3 times a week, but no doubts it will work, tone and elongate the muscles. I walked straighter just by doing it 1st time! One tip I could mention: the core, stomach should be always tight, with pelvis tucked in, this way you also train stomach and glutes while doing leg exercises. They do mention it sometimes during the dvds course, but not too often, so can be neglected by beginners So I highly recommend it, and wish that they could create more of such brilliant workouts! Their online streaming is a bit expensive for me

This box set disappointed me. It has some nice workouts (there are three DVDs each with multiple workouts) however it is very fast pace and the moves are NOT explained well. As a dancer I found this very hard to follow. I found that I couldn't keep up and get into the right positions in time. It was infuriating. They went straight into the move without telling you what to do first, and the exercises basically just repeated themselves which made it a little boring. I am disappointed because this box set has a lot of great reviews but it was poorer quality than I expected. I will keep trying it as I think it will get easier once I become more familiar with the routines, however I would not recommend this to people. Especially if you are like me, and want to make sure that all of your moves are technically correct.

Amazing. Great fun and a really great exercise, very tiring you, not really easy enough for complete beginners but still well worth it. Eatch iut for the stretches though, they are ballerinas so they stretch ridiculously far, some of the stretches I couldbt even attempt like lying on your back and bringing your feet over your head snd on he floor behind your head and stepping to stretch them out; I can't even do that with my legs in the air and on my shoulders. There are a few more, they say to attempt it anyway but if you can't do some then actually don't because it just strains your muscles otherwise. However, I would still recommend this it really is fun. Ivr always wanted to do ballet but never could because I'm too old now and my parents didn't want me to when I was younger. This gives me hr chance to feel like o can do ballet, even though I can't.

I have bought various ballet dvds and used a chair instead of a barre without any problem, however on this set I find it difficult to coordinate my light and left side, I guess it is because the dancers use the classic barre and I know it sounds sillybut... am I the only one with this problem?

Brilliant. Lots of content, fine if you have no dance background as it's all very well explained. Wonderful flow to each workout and they also flow seamlessly if you want to go into the next one. Amazing music. Makes you feel energised and relaxed all at the same time, gives great stretching and you can follow progress with their suggestions. Really lovely and a nice change from traditional style workouts.

This is not a DVD of ballet techniques. It is aerobics with a hint of ballet. The presenters do not dress like ballerinas, they are not wearing ballet pumps, tights or skirts. Professional ballerinas never appear with all this bare flesh. The music is aerobics filler music, not proper ballet music. It is a complete misrepresentation to consider this as having any relationship to ballet. The presenters/dancers themselves look more like athletes than ballerinas. It was a waste of my money.

Recieved my copy of Sleek technique -Sleek Ballet Box set this morning. I have gone through the dvds & done all of the workouts working up a sweat. Felt fantastic afterwards. Having been a Dancer all of my life, I find that alot of workout dvds on the market are too easy for me but this is a real challenge & I love it so much. I am a teacher of Dance now which means I don't always get to Dance & workout as much as I would like. I never want to lose all of my Royal Ballet School & Elmhurst Training so this suits me really well. The soundtrack is lovely & everything is explained very well without being patronising. I would thoroughly reccomend this dvd to everyone. I look forward to doing it again. You can choose which sections you do to suit the area you want to work with. One of the best workout dvds I have ever purchased. Full stars for me.

These workouts are absolutely amazing. I highly recommend them. The production quality is excellent and the design of the sequences is wonderful. Flik and Victoria, the creators of the technique and instructors on the DVDs, are professional dancers and it is clear just from looking at them that they know their stuff when it comes to getting into excellent physical shape. Not only that, but they really seem to understand what it takes to make not only a fantastic workout but a fun one to boot. I can't really say what it is, but these two ladies have a charm and appeal that comes across through the screen, making you want to work harder and do their workouts every day. What I love the most about these DVDs is that they truly use ballet-based sequences that are incredibly effective at sculpting a long, lean body while being very enjoyable to do. I really feel like I am gracefully dancing more than just plodding through a pseudo-ballet cardio routine in a tutu. The first DVD is 3 "bootcamp"-style workouts, each lasting approximately 20 minutes. I hesitate to use the term "bootcamp: because these fun and dance-like segments do not have much in common with the grueling and boring bootcamp workouts I have done in the past except for the fact that they get your heart rate up, make you sweat and get your muscles strengthening and stretching. The second DVD is all barre workouts and is equally as excellent. You don't sweat and work as hard in terms of cardio, but your strength and flexibility are definitely challenged. The third DVD is a series of 10 minute workouts for various problem areas (legs, abs, arms) and is also very effective and fun to do. I love the variety of exercises that these workouts offer and the fact that I can easily mix and match the three DVDs to keep my body guessing. Some have mentioned that the warm up and cool down are the same for all three DVDs and that they would have preferred each DVD to have its own. However, I actually find it helpful since it allowed me to quickly learn the sequences of exercises and stretches. The only problem I could see with these DVDs is that the workouts may be too difficult for someone just beginning to exercise or who is very overweight. In those cases I think that the Miranda Esmonde-White's Classical Stretch workouts (particularly Season 9 or 11) would be an excellent place to begin. I started out last year (in my attempt to lose my last 10 pounds of baby weight after my fourth child) with Classical Stretch/Essentrics and am happy to say that thanks to CS/Essentrics my transition to the Sleek workout was challenging but achievable. Had I started out with the Sleek workout, I might have felt a little too challenged. My only other complaint is that the lovely Flik and Victoria have not put out any other DVDs. They do offer live classes and streaming on their website (and I hope to definitely try those options in the near future), so I don't imagine that they will be producing any other DVDs unfortunately. I do thank them immensely though for for producing this stellar DVD collection. Please make another one so I can buy it straight away!

Je suis ravie de ce coffret qui offre des séances de 20 mn chacune, 6 en tout, plus une séance de réveil musculaire et une de détente et plusieurs séances courtes ciblées sur les différentes parties du corps. On a vraiment le choix, et la possibilité de ne pas se lasser. le fait d'avoir déjà fait de la danse classique et d'avoir des connaissances sur les ports de bras, et maintient du corps en général me semble vraiment indispensable pour ne pas faire n'improte quoi car les explications sont rapides. Il faut suivre en les regardant tout simplement. Pour la barre, j'utilise ma barre de penderie sur roulette, et ça fonctionne très bien.

Adoro queste routine.

je très satisfaite de ce produit

I am no ballerina, but I am a ballet barre enthusiast and love ballet inspired workouts. I workout every day 1 or 2h. Coming from MHB, Kari Anderson, Jennifer Galardi, Bernadette Giorgi, Burr Leonard and Ellen Barret's DVDs, it took me some time to get into Sleek. This is much more balletic than ballet toning / ballet inspired gym DVDs. True MHB did some balletic DVDs, but I didn't get to tune in with them. Instead, with Sleek Technique it took me a couple of weeks to tune in and love bloomed :) With these three DVDs, you sweat, elongate, develop deep muscle without getting bored, grow balance, grace, improve posture. Music is great and even if I am no fan of voice over, it makes sense that when the instructors perform certain series, they cannot have enough breathe to properly comment and guide. It's much cleaner and precise with voice over. I rotate my ballet toning DVDs during the week and practice on Sleek on Fri, Sat and Sunday. I still feel some of the other DVDs I practice are a useful complement to these three (e.g. MHB does an outstanding job on ballet body muscle toning and shaping, though the amount of reps is numbing. I practice w/ her for the results and thumbs up on her for that, though enjoy Sleek much better). After a few consistent months of practice, I still feel excited to hit these DVDs, as the more I get into the moves, the better I enjoy them! It is true that certain sections are fast and you may lose precision in the moves if you want to stick to the pace if you are not trained st certain moves, but I realized that with focus and practice my muscles and posture are really getting to understand the moves and catch up with the pace without compromising the alignment. It's a progressive improvement, so if you feel the same, just stick to your practice! It'll come! I'll keep on practicing to improve (especially the arabesques sequences on Bootcamp). Pro: instruction is clear, instructors are professional and so inspirational! Music is great, sequences also. These DVDs do deliver results and cuts while enjoying. From a non ballerina, but a rather a ballet-lover point of view, after some good practice, they do make you feel closer to ballet than you may imagine. Con: as other reviewers already mentioned, the DVDs are split into sections which cannot be played in sequence. It'd be nice to have the option to press on play for the entire workout. I'd also find it great if the DVDs had a music-only option to see if without instruction I am able to keep the pace. Last, warm up and cool down is the same in each DVD. I like both sections, though it'd be good to vary. I have to say that these cons are small details to me, as I do enjoy these workouts. They are different from what you may find on the market, there are enough ballet elements to make you feel you are dancing, yet they are accessible to non-ballet dancers. If I had a good connection I would love to stream or join Victoria's and Flik's live classes. Hope I will one day! Thanks Victoria and Flik to deliver results with such enjoyable workouts! My body and spirit are so greatful to both of you and it's a pleasure to give you 5 stars!