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Latin Cardio-dance
Styles At IDEA World Hope To Follow Zumba’s Success
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Two new
cardio-dance styles target to offer competition to
universal fitness sensation Zumba by flashing their
Latin-infused moves to thousands of fitness pros in
attendance this year’s IDEA World Fitness Convention in
Los Angeles.
Launching this week at IDEA World is a new exercise rising
from Los Angeles called Latinva, combined by Ecuadorian
dancer Johnny Latin in 2007. According to Latinva’s
executive of operations Muna Issa, the type has gained
traction in Southern California, a mecca of the hottest fitness
markets in the world, but hopes to capture wider
consideration at this year’s IDEA. |
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Latinva has a “strong stress
on dance,” Issa told Relaxnews. In a heart-pumping
workout, category participants pick up a operation of
dance stairs identical to Zumba, inclusive bachata, cha
cha, cumbia , mambo , merengue, salsa, and tango. At this
year’s IDEA, Johnny Latin will be hosting workshops to
sight and attest dance fitness instructors on the
technique.
Zumba, that proposed in the late 1990s by Columbian
choreographer Alberto “Beto” Perez, moreover launched at
IDEA World and has given done its way in to fitness clubs
all over the globe. In addition, Zumba hosts an annual
gathering in Florida with a few 6,000 Zumba professionals
fine-tuning their dancing skills every year.
Another new child in locale is Batuka, a Latin-style
cardio examination that features choreographed routines
and a zen-like approach. A prohibited direction in Spain
in new years, Batuka is the brainchild of Grammy
Award-winning composer and writer Kike Santander, who has
worked with Santana, Jennifer Lopez, and Marc Anthony and
moreover binds a medical degree.
He recognised the dance-cardio technique in 2005 whilst
using contestants on the Spanish American Idol offshoot
Operation Triumph , “who were stressed, attainment weight,
and not seeking too good,” Batuka arch selling officer
Phil Bonomo told Relaxnews. Santander calm a dance measure
and choreographed a routine, and then Batuka was born.
After great success with the contestants on the show, he
began selling a line of DVDs to the Spanish market, with
1.5 million copies sole and hundreds of Spanish fitness
clubs adding the type to their category rosters.
IDEA World Fitness Convention, Aug 11-14, 2011 will
include 150 speakers, inclusive Olympic speed skater Apolo
Ohno and brain illness dilettante Dr. Daniel Amen,
together with information about new products and trends to
a few 5,000 attendees. Rival tradeshows are Germany’s FIBO
and LA’s IHRSA International Convention Trade Show.
For more information -
www.ideafit.com
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