The pendulum movement is a super important one in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, mostly when it comes to your Closed Guard game. However, as foundational as it is, many practitioners do it wrong.
How wrong? Well, they’re not engaging their legs properly. Especially their inside leg.
Craig Jones shows how to do the pendulum movement properly on the video below:
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