Sunday, May 25, 2008

Dallas Seminar With Carlos Machado

Just got back from the Dallas seminar with Carlos. I always leave excited and humbled by the knowledge and skill of the man. He made all of us grapple a 4 stripe purple belt going to brown who had a crazy guard game. I did better than I expected.... The guy was a really good guy and extremely talented. I forced him to go to turtle one time, I got reversed twice, and he managed to pull guard and Carlos stopped us the last time. Carlos wants each of us drilling his game so that we will have a blue print for an effective grappling game until we get to the point where we develop our own.

He wants to ask ourselves what he would do when we get in trouble.... So our new catch phrase is "What would Carlos do?" He told us he used to do the same thing with Rickson when he was learning his jiu jitsu game.

Peace

Chris

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