Billy's Boot Camp

[dimwit]

Normally, I am not into TV Shopping products (except for Floam -which is cool) but I have been noticing that quite a number of my students have been buying his videos and what is more they have been actually exercising with them rather than just throwing it in the video graveyard at the back of the shelf. Has anyone actually tried/seen the video?

[Taro Toporific]

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Has anyone actually tried/seen the video?

It's a good video and a gr-r-eat exercise program even if the "Billy Bands(tm)" gimmick is kind of weird and too length of the bands are short for gaijin.

HOWEVER, Billy's exercise program requires 10 times the clear and open space than what you have your house Dimwit-san. You need a totally clear 12 mat room to do the circle back kicks that the exercise program requires. Also, sadly Billy's exercise program requires a lot more balance/fitness than I can muster. I'll give you my free review copy of the Billy DVD.

[etto_neh]

Taro's comment reminded of the first time my neighbor invited me over after he got a Wii... I went over, we cracked a beer, and he chotto matte'd for about 4 min rearranging the furniture before I figured out that that was about as much space we'd need to play the games jumping around like fools..

[Blah Pete]

My wife and her friends are into aerobics and a few of them have this DVD. They say the workout and program is good. I really hate the ads though because the J-Com channels that show soccer and CNN play this way too often.
Also, an Air Force guy talking about fitness??? Wonder if there is a smoke break in the workout?:)

[Greji]

Also, an Air Force guy talking about fitness??? Wonder if there is a smoke break in the workout?:)

Pete, as an ex-zoomie, I resent that remark. Now, where's my lighter?

[Taro Toporific]

D'oh!
Hey, I'm totally out of the loop with Americana. Billy Banks is the guru of "Tae Bo" of 90s fame .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tae_Bo
http://www.teamtaebo.com/index.html

[Samurai_Jerk]

D'oh!
Hey, I'm totally out of the loop with Americana. Billy Banks is the guru of "Tae Bo" of 90s fame .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tae_Bo
http://www.teamtaebo.com/index.html

He's also starred in some excellent movies like this Karate kid rip off I saw late on night where the Mr. Miyagi character is replaced by a black high school janitor.

[TobidashiChui]

Anyone who has shared screentime with Rowdy Roddy Piper is a master thespian as far as I'm concerned

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114706/

TaeBo and Billy's Boot Camp are fine. The only problems I could forsee are issues with space if you have anything smaller than a 10 tatami room and Billy still doesn't teach people to punch or kick, so expect aching joints and muscles.

[Mulboyne]

[Taro Toporific]

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[SIZE="2"]Fat-conscious Japan sweats to boot camp workout[/SIZE]
Reuters - Sun Jun 24, 2007 9:19AM EDT
....Japanese have snapped up Blanks's four-set DVD, "Billy's Boot Camp", in droves. Marketing officials are mum on figures but media reports say around 500,000 sets have been sold.
Fans say the appeal of the workout is not only in the fast-paced combinations of kicks, jabs and squats set to thumping music, but also Blanks himself, known in the United States as trainer to the stars.
"Keep your legs up," he shouts. "Let me see your power."
Blanks, 51, in Japan for a 10-day promotional visit, told fans who showed up for a live workout session that it was imperative that they do not quit the program.
"Who's the boss? Is it the exercise, or is it you?," he said after taking the crowd through 30 minutes of non-stop moves, said to be modeled after training exercises conducted by new recruits in the U.S. army.
"Well, let me see it. Let yourself see it. Otherwise, why do it?"...[I]more...[/I]

[Oradea]

Christ, this is the DVD the wife wants to buy, isn`t it like 1man?

[GomiGirl]

Am just curious though - is it dubbed into japanese or do they use subtitles? can you turn off the subtitles?

[amdg]

It's in English, and you can turn off the subtitles. I slipped it in today and had a 30 min workout. It's pretty much just an aerobics course.

[Ptyx]

They have a stand that plays the dvd in tokyu hands and there's always a crowd watching it while laughing their ass off.
I always thought the popularity of it in Japan had more to do with the comical, hyper-energetic aspect rather than the actual value of the workout.

[IkemenTommy]

This Billy guy banked on Japan at the right time when everyone is concerned about Metabolic Syndrome. It has quickly become a fad and everyone at my workplace is now talking about it. One guy even suggested downloading the video on the net through b*tt@rr3nt. Within the tight boot camp community, Billy's Boot Camp is also known as BBC, for short.

[Greji]

This Billy guy banked on Japan at the right time when everyone is concerned about Metabolic Syndrome. It has quickly become a fad and everyone at my workplace is now talking about it. One guy even suggested downloading the video on the net through b*tt@rr3nt. Within the tight boot camp community, Billy's Boot Camp is also known as BBC, for short.

You're sure right about that. My whole work area, office and all connected people are going bonkers over this program. I have heard that there are dubbed DVD's available. Whichever, the guy has really got a good thing going on.

BTW for all that have looked down and made comments on the level of the GIs, to include Johh Kerry, check out Billy. As an ex-GI, he's making a ton just putting Jazz dancing, martial arts (he apparently did that in the military) into a military exercise program. He's apparantly doing this as a family business, with he and his daughter doing the exercise portion. BTW, she is a blond white chick and Billy would have a make-up problem if appearing in a low lighted show. She said in an interview I watched the other night the other night (not sure when, but I was sober, which accounts for the confusion), that he is the only father she has known since she was two. So it would seem that she was adopted or Billy married her mom in a package deal (She also said she is rich and would not consider dating AO).

Be that as it may, they got it going on. All of which to remind ya that in business, ya don't have to be exotic in your venues. Sometimes it is that good old common sense that talks and the other bullshit walks!

[IkemenTommy]

He sure is penetrating a lot of J groupies with his big black dick on this Japan tour. Take that for a full body work-out.

[IkemenTommy]

You're sure right about that. My whole work area, office and all connected people are going bonkers over this program. I have heard that there are dubbed DVD's available. Whichever, the guy has really got a good thing going on.

His videos have sold over 20 million worldwide. That is damned good considering selling 2 million is considered a commercial success.

[amdg]

Seems that he played the football player that commited suicide in the beggining of the film "The Last Boy Scout". He gets bonus points from me for being in that movie.

[Samurai_Jerk]

The funny thing about programs like Tae-bo, Billy's Boot Camp, and boxercise is that they are actually pretty bad for your joints. They are great workouts but you have a bunch of people kicking and/or punching with improper technique while fully extending their joints. It's actually much better to kick a sand bag than air because that keeps you from snapping your knee joint out to locking. Watch boxers in a real boxing gym. When they shadow box they pull their punches to keep their elbows from getting messed up.

People should quit doing this shit and go join a real boxing or kick boxing gym.

[IkemenTommy]

Now I got that Akon song, "Smack That", stuck in my head especially that line:
Maybe go to my place and just kick it like Taebo
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[Takechanpoo]

This is no problem?