N-FLUX INTENSIVE
2 Days.
5 Expert Instructors.
10 Hours of Intensive Training.
All In-Person.
Marking the return to in-person training, the N-Flux Intensive is a two day deep dive into fighting and fitness concepts.
There's no better way to return to the mats than diving back into basics. This go-round, the N-Flux Intensive is dedicated to revisiting and reframing the fundamentals. Simple training. Highly evolved.
You can sign up for each individual session using the appropriate buttons below.
Saturday, June 12 - Sunday, June 13
N-Flux (1722 I St NW, Lower Level)
5 2-Hour Intensive, creative, thorough sessions led by the best…
Session 1: Fitness - Advanced Steel Mace Flow
Saturday, June 12 - 10am-12pm
A steel mace flow combines a series of movements into one seamless sequence. This seminar will start with some of the movements that we’ve been working on in the Steel Mace Fundamentals classes, add a series of more advanced movements, and combine them into a dynamic sequence including swings and flips. We’ll learn the movements, put them together, and try to make everything pretty.
Bio
Gonzalo Mon is a Fit to Fight Black Belt and certified Defensive Options instructor. When social distancing rules kicked in, and punching people suddenly became frowned upon, he decided to focus on creating a fitness routine that could help combat athletes stay sharp with very little equipment. Gonz received his Steel Mace Flow Instructor Certification with Honors and teaches the Steel Mace Fundamentals class at N-Flux.
Session 2: Mobility - Budokon Yoga
Saturday, June 12 - 12:30pm-2:30pm
Designed to build strength, flexibility, stamina and body control, Budokon is a calm but intense practice that blends yoga and mixed martial arts. Participants will learn to move seamlessly through postures mimicking yoga poses and mixed martial arts with strength and precision. Regardless of your physical fitness or practice, this workshop will humble any athlete or fighter looking to challenge their ability to focus and be in control of their bodies and emotional state.
Bio
Scott's mobility practice is heavily influenced by his training in yoga, Budokon, jiu jitsu, and parkour. His lighthearted teaching style doesn’t mask his expectation that his students reach beyond their comfort zones, find challenge and build new mobility and strength. His classes focus on bio-mechanics, alignment and the recognition and creation of sensations in the body.
Session 3: Mobility - Beyond Foam Rolling - Diving into Myofascial Release
Saturday, June 12 - 3pm-5pm
Your soft-tissue and myofascial system intimately connect your muscles, tendons, bones, nerves, blood vessels and organs. They keep a detailed record of your past, affect you in the present, and influence your future. While movement practices, stretching, conditioning, and martial arts help us to get into, learn about, work and strengthen these parts, there is more work to do. This practice allows you to improve your health by learning how these systems work, and effective techniques to release the tension and restrictions held within...
Identify your areas of restriction
Release your restrictions with simple tools and techniques
Circulate blood, lymph, oxygen and nutrients throughout your body to promote healing
Flush out inflammation and accumulated acidic metabolic waste
Restore your health, mobility, posture, and sleep
Learn the science behind, and the actual techniques to support and care for the most ubiquitous substance in the body - FASCIA and it's associated structures. There is a lot of talk out there about the value of foam rolling, come learn how to actually work with and care for your body from the smallest cells to the biggest muscles.
Bio
Derek is an experienced bodyworker, yoga teacher and internet ordainer reverend preaching the gospel of the human form. His study has led him deep down the path of not only asana and movement, but of the physical mechanics and philosophical intricacies of the human experience. As an anatomy teacher and bodyworker Derek has honed his understanding of the form and function of the human body, both in the laboratory setting alongside world renowned fascia expert and anatomical explorer Dr. Gil Hedly, and through working with countless moving bodies of all sorts.. Derek has developed a passion for sharing the beauty of the physical form and helping others to see how through understanding we have the power to heal within our grasp. You can find Derek teaching from his home in the DC Metro, offering intelligent functional movement focused vinyasa classes, or his special blend of self myofascial release in asana he calls Holy Roller. Follow @knowledgeofthedetails for little self care tips and techniques to build healthy and functional bodies and ranges of movement.
Session 4: Striking - Mitts to Ring: Realistic Padwork
Sunday, June 13 - 10:00am-12:00pm
Your padwork should emulate the fight. A solid round of padwork should integrate both a strong offense and effective defensive maneuvers. This session focuses on both padholder and striker - training each partner to train optimally on the mats to improve performance in the ring.
Bio
Colleen Daly is an athlete, martial artist, and coach. She is the founder of Guerrera, a feminist fight club dedicated to helping women and femmes feel more confident, safe, and powerful in their bodies. She is a 10th planet purple belt, and a Defensive Options black belt. Colleen trains and competes in kickboxing and jiu jitsu. She is the ONNIT open champion and Finishers Open champion at the expert level. She competes at the national level in kickboxing.
Session 4: Grappling - Reframing Jiu Jitsu Basics
Sunday, June 13 - 12:30pm-2:30pm
Position before submission is a phrase common in jiu-jitsu. But some in the Jiu-Jitsu community are revising this view advocating for, at times, a more aggressive, forward-thinking game.
Now that we are all getting back into the world, and more importantly back on the mats, let’s revisit the fundamentals of grappling to chart out a new path forward. It’ll be 2 hours of fundamentals unlike what we’ve done before.
Bio
Chris Torres is the owner and master trainer at N-Flux. Chris has over 15 years experience teaching martial arts and has taught thousands of students over the course of his career. He earned his Krav Maga black belt in 2005 and his double black belt in the Fit to Fight Defensive Options system in 2017. Chris also has a purple belt in 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu. Chris studied Muay Thai, Jiu Jitsu, wrestling, boxing, and other combat sports in an effort to become more well-rounded in the field and became the 2011 World Kickboxing Association Lightweight Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) World Champion. Chris views fitness as a necessary component for thriving in your environment and strives to create atmospheres that encourage perpetual development.