Flower Sweep Vs Pendulum Sweep (How & When To Use Them)

In today's video I answer a question about the Flower Sweep and Pendulum Sweep from Full Guard. I'll also show how I personally set them up and when I'll go for 1 over the other. These are 2 incredibly strong fundamental BJJ sweeps from full guard that can also be used for setups and other submissions.
Like any set of techniques in Brazilian Jiu-jitsu they're tools that need to be used at the right times.
Hopefully through the video you'll get a better idea at what these sweeps are, how they work, when to use them and how to set them up.
Here's an old video of a Flower Sweep I taught: • Flower Sweep (Tips to...
Hope the video is useful to you!
-Chewy
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[@theskorpian]

“Corporate needs you to find the difference between this sweep and this sweep...” lol

[@ashwinkumar3751]

Lol. This cracked me up

[@Wolf_Templar]

Excellent joke!

[@alecbradford3388]

Honestly I feel like this is the best flower vs pendulum video on the internet. Thanks chewy!

[@MrEcto]

I I we don’t know what what happened

[@squishypandaelephant]

Can we get a stretching routine from Cory? 😂

[@mrmushin1]

Corey but his leg into that position so fast and casually

[@somenamethatisopen]

For real

[@AdamBarkerThe]

Excellent breakdown of both sweeps, also thank you for the info on how to use them offensively and defensively!

[@jasonknox5930]

Cheers Chewy, hitting the flower sweep on the sly pretty consistently now.

[@jacobschultz7201]

I'm pretty new and when I got hit with the flower sweep for the first few times it really boggled my mind. It feels so fluid and effortless if top guy (me) is already off balance. Thanks for breaking down how it works!

[@chosen1163]

I love these sweeps I have definitely done this as a white belt

[@eamonshields2754]

Awesome stuff Chewy

[@avicohen7732]

This video was a clicking moment for me in Jiu jitsu. 11/10!! 💎

[@jeremyyap1714]

Thanks for the kicking detail Chewie! It's gonna be life changing

[@MusicloverX88]

Fantastic video Chewie!

[@bcolt]

The Flower sweep is the first sweep I learned and can do fluently.

[@malachizarathustra7301]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. And Cory seems like a good guy. BJJ is filled with guys who are tough but humble. A lesson. Blessings

[@coreywilkspsyd]

Haha, I try. Thanks, Malachi!

[@derekyorke3545]

Needed this, thanks Chewy!

[@michaelcorcoran3942]

I think these are a variation of the same thing. I hate in BJJ how we get these mad names that confuse things more. (Not blaming you Mr Chewy you.do great stuff).

[@martinryan2950]

Great to get the common whens and wheres for moves

[@EnergiaMartialArts]

Nice explanation 🙌🏼

[@justinabbott8481]

Love the wedefy rash guard. Just got one of the guys I’m mentoring set up with wedefy and he joined our academy. Wedefy was at Carry the Load in Dallas on Memorial Day. Pretty sweet deal they provide.

[@taiadiel]

Thanks y’all this helped so much!

[@1deaver]

Well done. Thumbs up. Helped me a ton

[@joshualove6586]

Great vid! Thank you!

[@anon7649]

Great vid- thanks

[@cregan55]

Great video,thanks

[@shawnsmith8155]

Very Good instruction

[@igooog]

Did one free class, got my ass kicked by basic techniques, and immediately signed up lol. Trying to figure out exactly what happened to me to hopefully not go down quite as fast next time.

[@heavybones]

Great video. Coach is away today and asked me to teach GI class so guess what I am doing.

[@maurjmp]

Thanks for this video

[@HomelessNinjaKennedy]

Props for the We Defy Foundation shirt 🤙

[@robmills5181]

Hey Chewy! Thanks for this video. That makes sense to use the flower sweep as a counter. I was trying to use it offensively and never making it work. Funny thing was I forgot I asked that and this video came up on my feed. I thought hey that sounds interesting and then 10 sec I'm you say my name. Great surprise! Thanks again!

[@christinasmit5523]

Hey. Is there maybe a video of a pendulum sweep into an armbar?

[@chokeeartist]

Thankyou

[@hyeguyswiss9393]

He did the jazz hands!

[@m.s.6219]

Thx

[@flyinphilj]

Are those the shorts you have been talking about that don’t have Velcro? They look like they ride up the leg a bit to easy?

[@davidtobin4140]

The first sweep direction will be dictated by the foot your partner steeps up on. For example in the video you are sweeping to you left when your partner is stepping up with their right foot. You’ll have more success if you sweep to your right when they step the right leg as that’s the direct their head is going. Try it out 🤙

[@joeynite5089]

Cory needs jazz hands lessons from Adam .. but good attempt homie

[@suavecito7456]

Bout to drill these before every sesh🙏🏽🙏🏽ossss

[@rigobertoruiz6136]

I have had surgery on my left arm when I snapped my radius. I still have the metal and screws in my arm and it really hinders my grip. I been having a lot of pain on my left ring and pinky finger after Jiu Jitsu, work, and even just trying to do pull-ups. Should I just buddy tape my pinky and ring finger? That feels like I might hurt both lol

[@chadslater3521]

I mainly use pendulum sweep to catch a arm bar.. 😉

[@MistaJayLJ]

Or use the arm attack for the sweep 👊

[@nicolasa6789]

I often pretend I'm tired too...definitely just pretending 😅

[@shaunb7614]

Whats the point in grabbing the right leg with the flower sweep? Why not underhook the knee?

[@Frogswilly]

👍

[@lobsterairsoft499]

Have you dealt with many issues of people posting their leg on the side their hand wound normally be?

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

That's why the first way he did it is more effective. Swinging your leg can be a tell. Planting your foot on the mat is better imo. No tell and more powerful.

[@yeevelyndeng4563]

I haven't tried this yet, but what's the purpose of the right hand pant/back of knee grip in the flower sweep? Is it just to keep their leg against your body and keep their weight on you to prevent them from having a better base?

[@chaosisfun7789]

You extend and lock out the arm that has this grip to push the lower body in the direction of the sweep.

[@yeevelyndeng4563]

@@chaosisfun7789 Hmm... I figured out the pushing in the direction of the sweep part, but I'll try the stiff arming next time too. Thanks!

[@kyleblevins6349]

I'm coming for that second stripe on my belt

[@jordanpranks9514]

Hey chu, I just finished my first BJJ tournament and I’m disappointed because I got 2nd but the last fight the winner got 2nd and loser 3rd I got the win due to points but I was in a turtle position after I won points to win and. He was trying to choke me when I was in turtle position as he put his hand in I bit his hand and I feel so guilty he deserves 2nd not me any tips for future. Tournaments?

[@daylightharnage242]

Be calm, don't disgrace yourself by disregarding the rules. Have fun!

[@random1110111]

How do we finish arm bars from there? I always get 90%

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

Should be able to armbar the wrist your controlling by bringing the leg over the head, assuming they post with the opposite arm.

[@rlclark50]

I've heard the first sweep with the gi pant and sleeve grip with the kick behind the armpit called the "Xande sweep" after Xande Ribeiro. The other one I've heard as called both flower (mayflower) or pendulum sweep.

[@MrFreakinAwesome20]

I'm shit at finishing armbars from guard or mount so the flower sweep is a move I like to chain from the closed guard armbar . The Flower sweep is always my goal while going for the armbar bc I don't expect to get it . Idk what it is but when I have the arm completely extended I always crush my balls when I start to apply pressure with my hips. Edit : People say it's because I don't have the elbow high enough, but I promise, I've seen PLENTY of people finish armbars where the elbow isn't perfectly above the groin , I cannot do that half the time because my balls get crushed . Period .

[@dylanwagner1162]

Bring the arm over the side ur leg/inner thigh and down the way it doesn’t want to go not down into ur balls lol

[@111kingy1111]

Get a cup and problem solved

[@Link00TMM]

Rob Mills? Is that my boy from Australia that sung Ms. Vanity

[@andrewmiranda5115]

Why do I see so many people calling the pendulum sweep the flower sweep. I saw it so much I was starting to think I didn’t know what I was talking about.

[@toughfff712]

Seems like the pendulum sweep could be hit off a failed arm bar. You would already have the arm trapped and the leg up.

[@msagneschan4284]

my professor teaches us pendulum sweep first, then next movement is pretend set up a pendulum sweep but swing the other leg to the other side and become an armbar set up.

[@echols2010]

Honestly thought they were same sweep one was just for gi and one was no gi

[@goodfortune5480]

They will already be dead from the D'arce. I'm so nervous about tournament tomorrow.. up watching videos for plan C.

[@petardjordjevic2967]

Did you win anything

[@goodfortune5480]

@@petardjordjevic2967 I won a match 5-0 oddly enough its was with sweeps from that position, holy crap maybe plan c worked.

[@metalheavyawesome]

@@goodfortune5480 Way to go!

[@anonoumos]

i still dont see the big diff, the pendulum sweep looks like a flower sweep + the leg pull back instead of posting

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

The only difference is the way he shows the flower is the better way of doing the sweep.

[@anonoumos]

@@JordanTeachesJiujitsu honestly (in my opinion) it looks like the pendulum is the better way of doing the sweep, bc its already in a stronger waiter position

[@JordanTeachesJiujitsu]

@@anonoumos I hear ya but honestly that motion will be such an obvious tell against an experienced grappler. Though I do like the under the leg grip, it takes a long time to get and can make the sweep attempt obvious.

[@anonoumos]

@@JordanTeachesJiujitsu that is very true :)

[@makan1568]

Pendulum sweep is offensive because I see there an armbar :)

[@bookofdaveandsteve]

Nice jazz hands. Adam best watch himself...

[@JoseRodriguez-nx1vv]

honestly I would just go for an arm bar instead of doing pendulum

[@jamesonwellman1855]

Can i hear your partner laugh? I miss it.

[@tededo]

They call it flower sweep, but I am still looking for the flower figure somewhere.

[@user-hg7mo5ht5x]

It was probably just one of the Gracie boys feeling pretty that day they invented it.

[@Str8ightO]

You go in a circular motion, similar to...... You guessed it! A flower!

[@jesselowe9374]

Ted, My first coach explained the flower sweep to me like, "Your legs open, like a flower." That's how I think of it.

[@Exploremorefishing]

Still don't know why it's called Flower ..I don't see it lol

[@badxradxandy]

Xande sweep

[@adriansrfr]

Xande means flower

[@Exploremorefishing]

@@adriansrfr no it doesn't it means bald head

[@rollinOnCode]

obviously you use the flower when you forgot Valentines and need to get your girl something quick- sweep her with flowers

[@PeterMettlerMartialArts]

Is Chewjitsu Jewish? Just wondering. 🙂🙏