Heavy Clubs 101

Description

Welcome to Heavy Clubs 101. It’s here, the foundation course to swing two heavy clubs. This course is specifically designed to suit a pair of heavy clubs also known as clubbells, mudgars, karlakattai, or Persian Meels. This course is the key building block for anyone who wants to learn how to properly swing a pair of heavy clubs.

About. In eleven videos we’re going expand your knowledge, skill, and physical capability greatly with the use of heavy clubs. Handling two clubs at the same time requires quite a lot of coordination, and skill. This course will make you able to perform the movements in a safe way and will create a solid foundation for you to improve in weight, and complexity. Heavy Clubs 101 will teach you the fundamental movements that will build mobility, strength, and conditioning in your arms and shoulders. At the end of the course you’ll learn how to combine all the exercises that you’ve learned into a flow.

Benefits. Heavy Clubs 101 will greatly improve your ability to swing two heavy clubs. The course will build up the coordination in combination with the endurance to swing clubs technically correct and for a long time. Furthermore it will also teach you how to combine swings into movement patterns (flows). As you go through the course you’ll gain a deeper understanding of mobility and posture while performing static and dynamic exercises. Swinging two heavy clubs is very different compared to a machine lift in the gym and will challenge your entire body to function properly. You will also learn a unique tempo system that will add a new edge to your training routine.

Difficulty. It’s a 101 course, which means it’s basically an introduction/beginner course. Swinging a pair of heavy clubs is, however, not the easiest categorie of swinging arts we provide at Dutch Flow Academy. If you’re in doubt if this will be too difficult for you, we would advise you to start with Heavy Club 101 (strength) or Light Clubs 101 (coordination). Heavy Clubs 101 starts all the way at the beginning of the heavy clubs journey. However, you will not just learn a few movement patterns. You will also learn how to combine movements through transitions on a basic level. Usually people gravitate too quickly towards complex movement patterns. This course will force you to focus on the absolute basics to master them through a lot of drills. You will not be where you were when you started the course, that’s for sure. This course is vital before attempting more difficult courses or exercises as it will build a solid foundation of strength, coordination, endurance and understanding for swinging a pair of heavy clubs.

Length. Every video as a certain amount of reps that are needed to be performed before moving onwards. You can see every video as a single workout in and of itself. Some will complete it within 1-2 weeks if they’re eager and learn quickly. Others might take 2-3 weeks depending on the willingness to push through and their basic level of coordination.

Requirements. All you need is a pair of heavy clubs and the internet the access and learn from this course. We recommend a weight between 2-4kg per club. This might sound light, but we will warn you that it’s going to be challenging already with a relatively lighter pair. It takes time to learn how to stabilise the clubs and you should not underestimate that. You can for a wooden or metal pair, both will work for the course.

Still doubting if this course is the one for you? You can read through the other courses or contact us at info@dutchflowacademy.com.