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BEYOND BASICS
swing the leg out to the side again
with a rocking motion from the hip
joint! Allow the torso to also rock
with the leg swing.
I know! Right! Leg Swings! We’ve
been doing leg swings for, like…
forever!
Great! So now that you know that
the Pendulum Rock is just leg
swings, we're ready to move on to
part 2, "Rock the Hip” to kick.
Have you ever watched someone who intends to do a high kick
lean back first in preparation for the kick? Most of us started out
preparing for a kick this way, and many still do. The drawback of
doing a kick this way is that it's not being corrected by the teacher
and so it also propagates as a correct kick preparation.
This method is like putting a weight on one side of a scale to have
it balanced once the item to be weighed is placed on the other
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