Bokwa

Bokwa is introduced to Diamonds

Last year Cara and Kerri took the gamble and flew to Los Angeles to investigate a new dance fitness they had witnessed on the internet called Bokwa.
They met the creator and his team and immediately fell in love with the concept put in front of them.


Bokwa is a high impact dance fitness to popular sounds and recent music. The choreography is set and is based around African tribal moves, step aerobics and capoeira. The class is led from the front and is all done by hand signals allowing children, people with learning disabilities and also the hearing impaired to participate. All choreography is set around letters and numbers adding a few shapes and African names.


When Cara and Kerri returned from LA they immediately wanted to introduce Bokwa to their dance school to see how the general public enjoyed getting fit with Bokwa.


Our first Bokwa class was held at Diamonds in Aldershot. After a brief introduction Kerri and Cara along with the support of their team took the class through the basic steps. The first step was shown and easily picked up and could therefore move on very quickly. Many of the class had stressed how nervous they were after seeing some video footage of Bokwa but were surprised when they picked it up so quick. The structure of the class is made up of, a brief warm up and then moving on to learning the basic Bokwa steps. Once the steps are learnt the class was moved onto a brief cardio work out.

Bokwa is an intense cardio workout combining elements of African Dance, capoeira, kickboxing, light-boxing and step. Created by dancer and fitness instructor Paul Mavi, who hails from South Africa.


Diamond Dancentre have now secured the rights to promote BOKWA UK and manage the qualification process for any Dance Teacher or group exercise Instructor interested in delivering this unique and exciting revelation!


We would like to offer you this incredible opportunity to be amongst the first to launch BOKWA in the UK. The first ever BOKWA UK class was introduced in April 2011 at Diamond Dancentre Studio. Find us on Facebook 'Bokwa England'.


Zumba Fitness has taken the world by storm and we believe that BOKWA will be the next big craze for Dance Schools and group exercise venues in the UK. 

 
BOKWA is a protected trademark for the USA company. It is an extra special fitness regime incorporating African dance, light boxing, kick boxing and step. BOKWA is the only form of fitness that incorporates sign language within it, so its suitable for the hearing impaired. BOKWA are anxious to maintain the highest standards of training and execution and therefore produced a handbook which contains all requirements in order for BOKWA to protect its image, and details all the benefits of the program to participants.