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On Saturday the 22nd of March 2024 head coach Harbert will teach a four hour workshop on Heavy Club and Heavy Clubs. This is your chance to learn an extensive and unique perspective on heavy clubs from one of the most experienced and knowledgable teachers in the world.

WHAT

For the Heavy Club part we’ll focus on a single club. This training tool is also known as a clubbell, mugdar, bulava, or a short gada. Training with a Heavy Club is an ancient holistic movement practice that works the entire body. The approach you’ll learn is based upon different modern and ancient methods combining it together with the Dutch Flow Method. You’ll learn the most important exercises and concepts to understand how to use the tool effectively. A heavy Club will strengthen your arms and shoulders, increase stability, and mobility to make them bulletproof. Compared to Heavy Clubs there’s an emphasis on the lower body too. How to connect the upper body with the lower body in the most effective way. After this workshop you’ll be competent in the basics of the Heavy Club, and will have a good idea of how to progress and use the system for that.

In the second part of the workshop we’ll increase the complexity by swinging two clubs instead of one. Again, this practice goes back thousands of years and has its origin in areas like Iran and India. The Persian Meel practice has been a big influence in the way we teach this swing category. Working two limbs at the same time is a challenge, but because you’ll already have learned the basics of swinging a single club, you will be able to integrate this skill quickly. With Heavy Clubs there’s less of a focus on the lower body and more of a focus on static strength that is required from the arms. Learning how to use the left independently from the right is an amazing skill and has been proven to be extremely healthy both physically and mentally. Aside from the weight, you’ll also get a great brain workout during the Heavy Clubs part.

FOR WHOM

This workshop is for both beginners and experienced practitioners. This is because the theory behind the Heavy Club and Heavy Clubs is most important for you to understand how swings move from one to the other and how you can create your own style of swinging. Both parts start from the beginning and you’ll be able to follow along easily. Furthermore there is a variety of clubs and gada’s/maces available on the day of the workshop.

COACH

Harbert has been coaching groups and clients for over 8 years with clubs. He went to India seven times to discover the history of the mace and wooden clubs. He was also taught by the worlds best club and mace teachers and has been spreading the word all over the world.

DETAILS

The workshop will start at 13:00 and will end at 17:00. The location is at YogaToday situated in Weesp, which is 30 minutes away with the train from Amsterdam.

On Sunday the 23nd of March 2024 head coach Harbert will teach a four hour workshop on Indian Clubs (light clubs) and Mace Flow. This is your chance to learn an extensive and unique perspective on clubs and maces from one of the most experienced and knowledgable teachers in the world.

WHAT

For the Mace Flow part we’re going to focus on techniques that are designed for relatively lighter maces. You’re going to learn a comprehensive system, the Dutch Flow Method, to help you understand the mace in a complete sense. We’re going to dive deep into fundamental swings and exercises and will apply the foundations to them. You’ll have the opportunity to learn and be corrected in your technique. After this workshop you’ll be competent in the basics of the mace, and will have a good idea of how to progress and use the system for that. Training with mace flow will spark your creativity in movement while developing your strength, conditioning, balance, coordination, and a lot more.

Training with Indian Clubs is an ancient sport/art form that focusses on the whole arm, the shoulders, and the core as primary movers. These relatively light clubs are an English adaptation on the wooden clubs they saw in India and from there an infinite amount of variety of swinging motions was created. Training with Indian Clubs is a combination of coordination, strength, mobility, proprioception, and spacial awareness, which train the body and the mind at the same time. In this workshop you’ll learn the vital foundations to approach these clubs, you’ll learn key exercises, and finally you’ll learn how to transition between different exercises.

FOR WHOM

This workshop is for both beginners and experienced practitioners. This is because the theory behind the Indian Clubs and Mace Flow is most important for you to understand how swings move from one to another and how you can create your own style of swinging. It will help if you have experience in the amount of weight you can use and how quickly you can adapt, but beginners are definitely able to do it too. Both parts start from the beginning and you’ll be able to follow along easily. Furthermore there is a variety of clubs and gada’s/maces available on the day of the workshop.

COACH

Harbert has been coaching groups and clients for over 8 years with the mace and clubs. He went to India six times to discover the history of the mace and wooden clubs. He was also taught by worlds best Indian club teachers and has been spreading the word all over the world.

DETAILS

The workshop will start at 13:00 and will end at 17:00. The location is at YogaToday situated in Weesp, which is 30 minutes away with the train from Amsterdam.

We, as Dutch Flow Academy, are proud to host the Level 1 Mace Certification in which coaches will be educated to become mace instructors.

Why Choose Us?

We believe that this instructor certification course is the most comprehensive and in-depth training that is available for the mace in the entire world. The cutting edge movement science, coaching cues, training methods, and mace foundations delivers something that has not been done before.

The amount of expert instruction and information inside this Level 1 Mace Instructor Certification is simply second to none. We’re deeply passionate and skilled in what we teach, and cannot wait to pass on the torch to you. We’re sure it will impact your life and the life of your clients in a deeply positive way. This is your chance to become part of the first Dutch Flow Academy Level 1 Mace Instructors.

What’s included?

Three days diving deep with a group of like minded people

Daily breath work and mobility

Two days of Level 1 Mace Instructor coaching of fundamentals, exercises, coaching cues, workouts, warm up and prehap and rehab

Professional support, guidance and instruction.

Access to two previously shot online courses to be completed before the start of the weekend

Online access to the entire certification (the certification will be taped)

DFA Mace Instructor Level 1 Course Syllabus

DFA Mace Instructor Level 1 Certificate

DFA Mace Instructor T-shirt

More information? Download the Certification Syllabus here.

Book a 15 min call with Harbert to see if this certification is a fit for you.