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The Five Phases of Steel Mace Flow


Steel Mace Flow is an AMAZING tool for Neuro-muscular connection (aka coordination), proprioception, movement efficiency, self-awareness, and re-connection with your body - when, like a great Samurai warrior, you become one with the mace.

Flow has 5 main phases:
1. You Learn - this is where you feel like a retard, trying to figure out WTF while pausing the video each 3-5 sec or so
2. You Remember - here, you remember the sequence but it feels ugly, slow, staggering and you're convinced that's "it's not for you".
3. You Flow - your nervous system has finally got it - you FLOW! Both of you move as one unit. The breath is subtle and the timing is perfect.
4. You Create - in this final phase, you ADD your own moves and transitions. It comes organically from within you. No effort. Pure evolution.

Congratulations, you're done!
The Flow has thought all, and there's nothing more to learn.
Once you remember, flow and add - you've come to a dead-end, alas you pick havier mace and work on stabilizing muscles and reactive core conditioning;

5. Pick another flow and repeat the process.
Then the next one, and the next one after that...

This is how evolution works - it's a spiral up.
You meet the same conditions with different skills, reactions, and learning curves.

Same is true for life as well.

Evolve.

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