Product Description

Two champion fighters show you how to bob, weave, punch, and kick your way to a better body

Chinese martial arts champions Tiffany and Max Chen share their training secrets in a workout program designed to get you in the best shape of your life. Their Shan Shou boxing style incorporates wrestling and kicking techniques that quickly build the strength, speed, agility, endurance, and reflexes of a fighter. This program allows you to choose the level of instruction and intensity you need, including a music-only option once you get the moves down. Whatever option you choose, you’ll get a heart-pumping workout that will tone your shoulders, arms, abs, glutes, and legs. Feel the burn and see results fast.

Start with warm-up and stretching, then chose from three progressively more challenging workouts.
Workout 1: The Basics -- Three-minute rounds of combat-oriented exercises (approx. 20 min)
Workout 2: The Kicker -- A series of 30-second standing and floor calisthenics (approx. 20 min.)
Workout 3: The Killer -- Repetitive cycles of challenging, explosive movements (approx. 20 min.)

About Tiffany & Max: Taught by their father, Tai Chi Chuan Grandmaster William C.C. Chen, both fighters starting training at a tender age. A figure-skating champion as a child, Tiffany entered her first martial arts competition at age 16 and now has over 40 gold medals to her credit. One of the top full-contact Lei-Tai San Shou competitors in the country, Max has racked up 20 gold medals in just over a decade of competing. Both Tiffany and Max train and teach at their father’s New York City school.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7893 in DVD
• Brand: CHEN,TIFFANY
• Released on: 2007-07-03
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 76 minutes

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Kung Fu Kickboxing is a pure, unadulterated martial-arts workout, the Chens know their stuff.

FitSugar.com, August 29, 2007

this workout is seriously fun and has the potential to make you seriously sweaty.

FitnessMagazine.com
"This is the absolute best ever...if I were to star in my own workout video, this is the one I would make."

Customer Reviews

Great Kickbox DVD!!
I just rec'd this last week and I can't stop doing it. It's great to add on to a weight workout due to the segments each being 20 minutes. I have been doing weight circuits out of a book that which take me about 45-50 minutes to complete and then I tack on a segment of this to round the workout out to just over an hour.

The production quality is excellent (as is with all Acacia productions I've ever purchased). I love the music on it. It's very different and I recognize some of it from Duncan Wong's Yogic Arts DVD.


I just love Tiffany (she's the is the one that instructs and works out with brother Max). Tiffany has a straightforward ....let's get down to business demeanor. She's really cool. I'd love to see more DVDs from her and Max.
They are both serious in this workout and if you put your "all" into it, you will get a good workout. Keep in mind that the cardio effect of this DVD is broken up a bit by going to the floor for different moves for the abs, pushups, etc. Therefore, it has more of an interval effect.

I have A LOT of kickbox and martial arts workouts and nothing compares to this. I really love it. You must try it. I've never written a review for a product on Amazon (and I buy a lot of exercise DVDs). I really hope they come out with more workouts, as this truly is in a class of it's own. Love it!!!

My Favorite Kickboxing DVD
I am not a fan of aerobics and most kickboxing workouts , but I do like this one , this is not a choreographed aerobic workout disguised with kickboxing moves ,this is a real kickboxer's workout with different drills and exercises and you don't have to remember complicated moves , but you do need some stamina and core strength as these workouts are tough! there are 3 20 minute workouts in different levels but you can do 2 or all of them together if you'd like ,there's a short warm up segment and a stretch segment. Honestly I found the "the basics" workout harder than "the kicker" probably because it is more cardio intensive than the second one which is mainly different exercises that requires more muscle strength (like alligator pushups)now I do both of them together. I haven't tried "The Killer" yet , but I can't wait to try it soon. The production quality is excellent like all other Acacia DVD's. Highly recommended.

I LOVE THIS!
I'd only done one other kickboxing program before and wasn't crazy about it, but my boyfriend is a huge fan of William CC Chen and wanted to do this with me -- and because I love the other Acacia DVDs I've tried, we gave it a shot.

WOW! I love the first two workouts -- the interval training style seems to do more for me than other workouts I've tried and I just read an article in Oprah Magazine last month about how you will lose more weight through explosive plyometrics for 30-second intervals in between more measured movement for 30 minutes than you will in a 90 minute steady pace workout. After trying this, I believe it.

I'm still not coordinated enough to pull off the last workout, but I adore the first one and I'm getting more comfortable with the second one all the time. Tiffany's coaching is awesome. And my boyfriend (who follows such things) told me that Max just won another fight and is getting closer to qualifying for the USA Team in the Olympics in kickboxing.

This is SOOO different from an aerobics gym girl teaching a "cardio-kickboxing class" -- which I find really annoying. This is the real thing that real fighters use to get in real shape, broken down into workouts that let you start off at a beginner level and work your way up.

I'm not a fighter, but this has done wonders for me. I love it!