Event Details
We, as Dutch Flow Academy, are proud to host the Level 1 Mace Certification in which coaches will be educated to become mace instructors.
Event Details
We, as Dutch Flow Academy, are proud to host the Level 1 Mace Certification in which coaches will be educated to become mace instructors.
Our mission
As you might know from experience learning the mace is not as easy as it seems and teaching it is a whole other level of complexity. The possibilities of training with a mace are endless and this creates a lot of confusion to the uninitiated mind. Startingfrom scratchcan be a process of trial and error that may take years to master. Dutch Flow Academy is on a journey to spread the awareness and quality of mace training instruction all over the world. Our mission is to provide the highest quality of education to provide flow in your training and in your life. We’re dedicated to empowering our students to become expert instructors, raising the bar of quality coaching in the vast ocean of fitness and health. This will benefit many in their ability to coordinate, move and coach and create a ripple effect that will affect countless individuals.
Three Phases
Phase 1
The initial phase of the Mace Instructor Certification Course is done online and before the start of phase 2, the certification weekend. It involves completing two online courses, Mace Flow 101 and Gada/Mace 101. You’ll be required to finish both courses before the start of the certification weekend and send us two videos that will show the effort you’ve put into completing the courses. This is a mandatory step in the process and if not successfully completed you will not be able to join phase 2. The prerequisite online courses will teach you the fundamental movements and ways to approach the mace. The courses and their completion are mandatory because we are looking for dedicated students who will be able to soak in all the information during the certification weekend. Having gone through a process of learning yourself will greatly benefit your ability to pick up knowledge during the weekend. We also believe in that your own skill and understanding should be proficient enough before starting to coach others through the process.
Phase 2
On the weekend of the 7-9th of March 2025 we’ll host the Certification in a beautiful church yoga studio in Weesp NL. This will be immersive weekend including food. The weekend starts on Friday the 7th of September at 13:30 and you’ll be sorted until Sunday the 9th around 17:00. During this weekend we’re going to dive deep into the material of the certification course. Three days of education, exploration, and testing. We will complete the certification with a test that you’ll need to complete before the end of the weekend and before you’ll receive your certificate. During the rest of the weekend we’ll spend time getting to know each other, diving deep into our bodies using breath work and mobility and have an overal fantastic time. The idea of the weekend is to immerse deeply into the course material and have an amazing off-grid experience with a group of people passionate about the exact same thing with the same purpose in mind.
Phase 3
You’re going to leave the weekend with a feeling of having been immersed in a new reality concerning training and knowledge. This feeling, however, is going to fade once you enter your usual day to day routines. As for the knowledge part, we’ve shot the entire certification on video and will be able to share those tapes with you to review after the weekend. The syllabus that’s included in the certification is elaborate and will give you all the details needed in written format.
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.
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Time
03/07/2025 13:30 - 03/09/2025 17:00(GMT+01:00)
Location
Weesp
Blomstraat 36, 1385 AK Weesp
Organizer
Harbert Egberts
Weesp
Event Details
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
Event Details
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.
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Time
03/22/2025 13:00 - 17:00(GMT+01:00)
Location
Weesp
Blomstraat 36, 1385 AK Weesp
Organizer
Harbert Egberts
Weesp
Event Details
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
Event Details
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.
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Time
03/23/2025 13:00 - 17:00(GMT+01:00)
Location
Weesp
Blomstraat 36, 1385 AK Weesp
Organizer
Harbert Egberts
Weesp
Event Details
We, as Dutch Flow Academy, are proud to host the Level 2 Mace Certification for the first time in Belgium. If you enjoyed the level 1 course, you will be
Event Details
We, as Dutch Flow Academy, are proud to host the Level 2 Mace Certification for the first time in Belgium. If you enjoyed the level 1 course, you will be blown away by the contents and experiences of level 2.
Goal
Level 2 is designed for those who want to step up their game as an instructor and are willing to dive deeper within themselves to be able to have a bigger impact on their students. As a main theme, you’ll be guided in the art of teaching single arm mace techniques. This will help you as an instructor with a system for your more advanced students who are willing to continue and uplift their mace practice. In level 2 you will go through a detailed process to learn how to teach and organise a workshop. We will pay a lot more attention on the mastery of coaching and discuss multiple teaching methodologies for you to become a more well rounded instructor. This will involve diving deeper into yourself through self exploratory exercises. Furthermore level 2 will be a place where experienced instructors come together to learn from each other and to create a powerful community of instructors who will keep spreading the art the mace.
Three Phases
Phase 1
The initial phase of the Mace Instructor Certification Course is done online and before the start of phase 2, the live certification. It involves completing two online courses, Mace Flow SIX and Gada/Mace SIX. These courses are extensive and require the student to spend more time with the mace than the introductory 101 courses. Through these courses you will learn the most prominent single arm swings, and more complex flows. Completing these courses successfully will properly prepare you for the level 2 instructor certification.
Phase 2
During 5 days we’ll come together as a group to an experience that will change your life. We will take off where we finished with level 1 and go deep into mace, workshop and teaching methodology. Everyone present during this certification is a level 1 instructor already and has gone through Phase 1 beforehand. This means a combined depth of knowledge and experience that will catapult us into a deep process from day 1. Some of the topics for the level 2 course include: single arm mace techniques, teaching methodologies, storytelling, workshop organisation, breath, anatomy, flow, benefits, group exercises, and much more.
Phase 3
Phase 3 starts after completing the level 2 instructor certification. You will be added to a special level 2 instructor group which will meet regularly through online calls. This is to ensure that our level 2 instructors are up to date on the latest developments, and will have proper guidance in their advances to instruct more often with more depth. The syllabus that’s included in the certification is elaborate and will give you all the details needed in written format.
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 2 Mace Instructor Certification is simply second to none. 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 2 Mace Instructors.
What’s included?
Five days diving deep with a group of like minded people
Private location for training and sleeping
Food during the certification
Professional support, guidance and instruction.
Access to Mace Flow SIX and Gada Mace SIX to be completed before the start of the level 2 certification
DFA Mace Instructor Level 2 Course Syllabus
DFA Mace Instructor Level 2 Certificate
DFA Mace Instructor Level 2 T-shirt
Future online sessions with other level 2 instructors for questions and answers
Book a 15 min call with Harbert to see if this certification is a fit for you.
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Time
03/27/2025 15:00 - 03/31/2025 12:00(GMT+01:00)
Location
Private Church in Belgium
103 Kaaskerkestraat
Organizer
Harbert Egberts
Private Church in Belgium
Event Details
We, as Dutch Flow Academy, are proud to host the Level 1 Mace Certification in which coaches will be educated to become mace instructors.
Event Details
We, as Dutch Flow Academy, are proud to host the Level 1 Mace Certification in which coaches will be educated to become mace instructors.
Our mission
As you might know from experience learning the mace is not as easy as it seems and teaching it is a whole other level of complexity. The possibilities of training with a mace are endless and this creates a lot of confusion to the uninitiated mind. Startingfrom scratchcan be a process of trial and error that may take years to master. Dutch Flow Academy is on a journey to spread the awareness and quality of mace training instruction all over the world. Our mission is to provide the highest quality of education to provide flow in your training and in your life. We’re dedicated to empowering our students to become expert instructors, raising the bar of quality coaching in the vast ocean of fitness and health. This will benefit many in their ability to coordinate, move and coach and create a ripple effect that will affect countless individuals.
Three Phases
Phase 1
The initial phase of the Online Mace Instructor Certification involves completing two online courses, Mace Flow 101 and Gada – Mace 101. You’ll be required to finish both courses before the start of phase 2 and send us two videos that will show the effort you’ve put into completing the courses. This is a mandatory step in the process and if not successfully completed you will not be able to join phase 2. The prerequisite online courses will teach you the fundamental movements and ways to approach the mace. The courses and their completion are mandatory because we are looking for dedicated students who will be able to soak in all the information during phase 2 and 3. We believe that your own skill and understanding should be proficient enough before starting to coach others through the process. Having gone through a process of learning yourself will greatly benefit your ability to move through the certification material.
Phase 2
Phase two is where the certification really starts. You’ll gain access to a spectacular online course that has over a 100 videos to be completed in two moths. In this course we’ve worked with eight Dutch Flow Academy instructors who are participating in the course. It’s professionally shot and designed to come as close to an actual in person certification as possible.
In the second phase of the Online Level 1 Mace Instructor Certification you’ll be put to the test. This is the training month. There will be rigorous training practice where you will be introduced to all the separate exercises of the certification and you’re required to complete a certain amount of reps for each of them.
In this second phase you’ll dive deep into the practice of swinging a mace. Through professionally shot videos that include eight Dutch Flow Academy instructors you’ll be introduced to a new section of swings every week. This phase will include two of the tests of this certification that you’ll be required to complete before the start of phase 3.
Phase 3
The third phase of the online certification is about connecting the dots and applying them. You’ve practiced and mastered all of the individual movements, and now it’s time to learn how to transition and how to flow. You’ll learn extensive flows that are all shown through the same professional videos with instructors as in phase two.
After having completed the flows you’ll learn how to apply the Dutch Flow Group Training Format. You’re guided in the process of creating a group training session for your potential clients. All the details will be covered with the support of online videos.
In the last part of phase 3 you’ll go through the final test where you’ll be able to successfully complete the certification.
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 month online course
Live online sessions with the instructor group
Professional support, guidance and instruction
Access to two previously shot online courses to be completed in the first month of the course
Online access to the entire live certification
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.
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Time
06/01/2025 15:00(GMT+01:00)
Organizer
Harbert Egberts
Ignite your inner warrior
Are you ready to invite and ignite your inner warrior? Based upon ancient warrior training, maces and clubs are here to revolutionise the way you train. You’ll no longer be tied to fixed movement patterns, you’ll learn to how to create freedom in movement.
All ranges of motion
Nowadays, a lot of the strength training is based upon linear movement patterns completely neglecting the rotational aspect of movement. Maces and clubs are rotational tools which exercises require the entire body to be effectively activated during the movements. You’ll build strength in all ranges of motion, with a specific focus on shoulders and arms.
Yin & Yang
All though the tools look like very masculine tools to wield, it actually requires softening to be most effective. Timing, coordination, balance, and spatial awareness are required to master the mace and its weight. Don’t be fooled, a 4kg mace and a set of 1kg light clubs will humble the strongest among us and will reveal weaknesses in your kinetic chain.
Workshops
At Dutch Flow Academy we offer multiple events ranging from workshops to certifications. The workshops focus on specific topics that can vary per categorie of tool, in duration, and in difficultly. During the workshops you’ll learn about the Dutch Flow Method. This is a unique approach that will teach you how to approach swinging movements and tools with a solid foundation. It's the first method in the world connecting all the swinging arts together. Having understood the mechanics mentally and physically we will move forward to teaching you the fundamental swings and movements. Mastering one swing will translate into all the other swings that follow.
Certifications
The certifications are set up as all inclusive retreats with a fixed schedule that includes tests and challenges. You'll receive a comprehensive manual, and method and it includes pre-learning through online courses. If you're dedicated, this is your best choice. For now we offer a level 1 and level 2 certification program for the Mace & Gada connecting both the Mace Flow and Mace/Gada categories. A clubs certification wil follow in the future.
"Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz."
What to expect
- Connect to your body in a deeper way - Learn how to swing the mace - Gain strength in unfamiliar places - Find flow and freedom in movement - Improve mobility and coordination - Feel like a warrior
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