I like this video a lot because she makes an important distinction between land speed and water speed. Land speed is what you will find in normal land group exercise classes; think of exercises done to the beat of the music at all times. In the water, the natural resistance of the water means you will probably need to double the count for most of the exercises.
She demonstrates water speed at 0:11 and land speed at 0:25 for a jog. I also like that her warm-up is easy to follow. She stretches the classes legs, starts getting the heart rate up to an aerobic level (you can tell she's working...she's huffing and puffing into her mic), stretches their arms with a simple rocking horse, and cues her class into the next transition. Her warm-up utilizes the entire body and her class should be ready to work specific muscle groups if they followed along. Try this by yourself at your pool, or utilize some of these moves for your own warm-up routine if you are instructing a group aqua class.
I'm sure she had her class close together for filming purposes, but I would tell my class to spread farther apart. You tend to start splashing, punching, and kicking each other if you're too close to your fellow classmates. And that is not a good way to make friends.
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