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- Bruce Lee's JKD Jeet Kune Do
how to quickly attack and retreat with
the pendulum step.
Now, this is going to be great because
when I first saw Sifu's video,
that's what caught my attention.
Because I've be trying to master my
pendulum step for many, many years.
And I just found that I couldn't do it,
and when I watched Sifu's video, it was just amazing.
I've never seen anything like it.
So, Sifu how do you do that?
- Pendulum requires you to build that acceleration
from one to another, one point to another spot.
So, to train it, you basically bring this foot in
and you lightly bring the foot in.
I think, the problem with most people do
is that they're literally stepping.
So, what's happening is they step,
and they lose a beat in time when they're doing it.
So, what you wanna do is be able to
glide with this.
When you glide your weight distribution is coming this way,
and now it's centered.
So, you have to release this foot.
So, by the time you're here, this extends out.
But you see how I ended up just shifting
that foot and replacing it with this one.
- So, you're momentum is all going forward?
- Correct.
So, then the foots coming in, right?
You see the weights coming into here.
And then I extend.
The thing is is that you gotta be able to...
You can't go one, two.
It's too slow. It's too late.
In fact, it's probably too slow
for somebody to read you
and then take you down for that.
You gotta be able to do this quick
or to do it at all.
So, bring this foot, and extend out.
This is the ankle you want.
- Body, right? - Right.
- And what about in terms of the center gravity?
- Well, most of my weight distribution is right here now.
So, you're thinking about maybe 90%, maybe 10% here.
So, the ball of the foot is absorbing the impact just a bit
and when I return, I come back.
So, the idea here is utilize the core strength
into doing this.
Because if you're just thinking of the pendulum--
- Then there is, you can't do anything on your foot.
- Yeah, you're just thinking of this,
and what happens you create bad habits
by raising your body, coming in, rise.
- That's what I was doing before.
- Yeah, and so you wanna be able to
leave the lower center of gravity and
direct that energy into that one.
And it just naturally stays there
without me having to move my head forward.
This stays here, now it's here.
So, you just practice that over, and over, and over.
- And the purpose of this is - Until you get it right.
- Is to cover distance forward and backward,
and in the quickest time, right?
- Correct.
So, for you to utilize one of your attacks in distance,
and then close the distance pendulum works in that case.
If you're coming into attack the opponent,
especially if you're trying to redirect his attacks,
for you to attack him this works very well.
Now, again in a practical standpoint
if you're in a critical stage, you wouldn't do this kick.
Critical stage meaning I'm this close to you.
- Yeah, you're good at hitting.
- I can't use pendulum, I'm just gonna bring the leg up.
Now, to drill this, of course, I would have
my partner stay in place, and the say okay well,
we're not looking at someone attacking you,
or doing anything else.
What I want you to do is know how to reach the target.
My foots gonna go here, and my main target is the knee.
Now, for practicing I try to go a little bit lower.
Instead of hitting right here on the knee.
Now, the knee is a good target,
because you wanna blow through it.
You imagine the knees going the other way
and then he's done, okay.
But, you gotta be careful
when you're training with your partner.
So, this is enough, okay.
Find your distance on where you can reach him to hit.
Now, if my partner was a bit further out,
this is the question as to whether or not...
- Now I can't kick.
I'm not in the range.
- You're not even in range with me,
and could I reach you?
Would be the question.
Could I still reach you?
- However, I don't think you can reach me, right?
As an opponent I have to estimate.
- Yeah, yeah but if I can just borrow a little bit of space.
And still utilize my momentum to get to you,
I could still reach you.
Now, let's question the next stage.
Could you step back further?
Can I still reach you?
Is the question.
Depends again, on how you're gonna utilize the foundation
and borrow the energy.
So, if I'm going to reach you.
Maybe so, it just depends on how I put
a little bit more bend on this leg, and come back.
Now, what I have a problem with is
doing this kick and recovery.
Because if you recover, the problem is
how slow or what, there's a gap there where
there's an opportunity for your opponent.
- This is here to...
- Yes, because this it makes you vulnerable, right?
There's a gap in time, where you need to know how to recover
so, if I did that and I hit
I have to (grunts) come back as quickly as I can,
and I usually do it with a hit.
So, I cover that gap with a hit.
So, again I hit. (yells) I'm in.
And that's how I usually recover.
I don't wanna go (pants), big gap.
More or less it's (stomps), in.
And that's how you advance.
Now, let's take this to an extreme.
Step back a little bit more.
Can I reach you?
- That's like almost one, two, three,
like three steps, right?
- Yeah, it is.
Now, again I'm just learning how far
I can extend this tool.
So, to get to you I could either steal-step.
So, I'm gonna steal that space to reach you.
And, of course, now you start looking at wow,
If I can use that long a weapon,
and I'm a short guy, we're short guys.
And I can utilize my tool that long?
Hmmm, now I can vary it between distance.
And that's another time that you can play with.
Now, to drill this what I like doing
is teaching my students, from the very beginning,
so, the first thing I do is I say okay,
you're stationary, there's nothing going on,
I hit the target and you retreat.
That's it, and you retreat.
Now, you try to retreat
and my purpose is to try to hit it.
And you retreat and not let me...
Not letting me hit you.
- Okay.
- So, ready?
That's it.
And, the whole idea is again, (exhales)
you maybe be in a right lead but if you switch leads
I'll still be able to attack the other leg,
because you don't have a guard on there.
So, are you ready?
- Yes.
- Good.
Good.
Good, and so you just drill it over, and over, and over
to where you get this pendulum affect.
This your pendulum.
And you could even pendulum backwards, with a backfist.
- So, it is the core that's doing a lot of the work?
- This is very important if you...
If it's not here then there's no purpose of you doing this.
- That becomes the legs, the thighs, they're very heavy?
- Yes.
- And that's why we really can't, we can't move.
- Yeah, and a lot of it has to do with
being light on your footwork.
So, if you're not light then,
this stuff doesn't...
Work good.
- And it doesn't, it could be shin-kick, it could be a,
a toe-kick, it could be a front-kick, it doesn't matter?
- Yeah, I could do it from here, and then go up.
I go (grunts) and you're expecting that one,
and then right to the head.
- So, there you go.
That's the pendulum step.
Now, it is very, very difficult.
Now, see what are some of the drills
that someone can practice, to improve that explosive power?
Then the issues of speed?
- On pendulum, again, if you drill this
to where you're going here.
And back.
Take it one step at a time.
So, you go half beat,
hold it, come back.
Break it apart, one.
Hold, two.
Look at the transitions, feel it out.
One! Two.
Okay, and that's how you start getting used to this.
If I gave you a full beat.
Say, I want you to go forward and back.
Back.
And without losing the microphone.
Back, see?
- We don't even worry about the kick?
Focus on the step?
- Yeah, just look at how this foot glides over.
And bounce off the ground.
Use the ball of the feet, and back.
Because this, ends up being your kick.
And it helps.
- That makes sense.
Wow, that's very, very valuable.
So, pendulum step.
How to quickly retreat, and also attack.
Okay, comment below if you got any questions.
It is a very advanced step.
Probably one of the most advanced, kind of footwork in JKD.
- Very extraneous but yes advanced footwork.
- I think Sifu told me it took you quite a few years to get.
- It does.
You just gotta keep practicing it.
Look at yourself in the mirror while you do it.
There's many different way you can do it.
And we'll share those later.
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Be water, my friend.