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Yoda

the 3 branches of the Tao of Scott

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Been wondering how intuflow, clubbells, and prasara fit in with each other mostly in terms of their psychological effect on the practitioner.

 

Here's what I've figured out thus far:

 

 

Mobility. General Training.

 

The intuflow branch is the first branch and focuses on simply being able to move and they talk about 'wiping the slate clean' with this practice. From my experience, it seems to generally open up the body, relax chronic tensions, and allow a better energy flow throughout, improve general posture and body functionality. This branch is 100% easy practice--no hard stretching, straining, loosing the breath, not much energy expended to do it. You can roll out of bed and do it. Also, the level of complexity is very low--just very simple movements and movement combinations. Creates a base camp of relaxation, ease, and gentle energy flow.

 

Movement. Specific Training.

 

The Prasara/Flowfit branch focuses on developing the above foundational freedoms and to put the whole thing into motion with more focus on breathing and combining very different moves together in one flow as opposed to the a la carte Intuflow presentation. This can be done 'easy style' but can be done at a very challenging level. The practice makes one actively face and transcend fear held in the body as opposed to just being generally relaxing like Intuflow.

 

Strength. Specific Training.

 

Clubbells. Here we can more easily relate to the psychological virtues of feeling strong and the benefit of doing a taxing workout. The thing that has been surprising to me so far, is that I have excellent strength through kettlebells and traditional training, but my 'circular' strength through the full range of motion lags a tremendous amount.

 

 

 

Obviously, there's a lot of overlap between these three branches and I'm very new to the whole system so I may be inaccurate in some of my assessments here.

 

Misc links:

 

http://www.conniesclubbellcafe.com/trainseq.htm (dated practices, but gives a good bit of info on the three branches)

 

http://www.circularstrengthmag.com/forum/v...opic.php?t=9271

 

http://www.circularstrengthmag.com/forum/v...opic.php?t=8746

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Seans take:

 

it looks like FlowFit is more in the direction of giving you a conditioning workout, whereas IntuFlow is more geared toward recovering mobility and active rest.

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