An owner had been to one of Master Carlos’s classes and felt something in his sweep that Master Carlos hadn’t mentioned yet on the call. He asked about it.
Master Carlos opened that day’s lesson with one word.
“The key word today will be pressure, okay, pressure. If you add pressure, you will be more effective and have to do less work to get the job done.”
Partway through the sweeps, the owner spoke up. What he’d felt was this: Master Carlos doesn’t pull you toward him. He pulls you down first, onto the knee you’re basing on.
Master Carlos showed it on his partner and said it plainly.
“The way you sweep people is not by trying to pull the guy out, or just pull the guy to you … I pull him down, then I pull him to my knee, look, I start to elevate him, I pull him against my knee … it’s not against my body, it’s against my knee”
The goal is to take the weight off his knees.
“you got to make the guy levitate literally from the ground”
The owner said he’d gone back to his school and swept some pretty big students with that one pull-down.
Master Carlos then added a foot on the hip, for a partner who keeps fighting.
“when you add that pressure on the hip, it cuts the amount of steps you have to take when you have a guy that keeps fighting back”
