10th Planet Rochester's Scott Yockel in Wolfmania's Aboslute Divsion (Vid)

[wadsworth]

scott is solid. it was my pleasure to be there.

[AJ Camacho]

Single leg>Butterfly Guard>The Reaper to heel hook.

Crazy. Percentage wise, how many people from other gyms defensively react correctly when the knee is reaped?

[Chris Herzog]

Crazy. Percentage wise, how many people from other gyms defensively react correctly when the knee is reaped?

Shocking low, especially using The Reaper from bottom positions, maybe 30% of the time and even against higher level competition. However attacking the legs by reaping the knee from a top position, say from inside someones guard the % for defending correctly goes up. Moral of the story... attack your opponent with things that don't know and don't see coming.

[Brandon Palmer]

Single leg>Butterfly Guard>The Reaper to heel hook.

Steady reapin bitches!

I love it!

[Scott Yockel]

thank you everyone for the props it means a lot!!!! It was along day for me b/c my semi-final match was against Matt Arroyo which went a very very long 9 and half minutes before I got hit with an armbar. I've been working hard on my butterfly guard all year, I want to get to the point of everyone being scared of my butterfly guard. Like people are scared of Denny with his guillotine or Seans rubber guard. Thanks again and can't for this season to start!

[Will Thaxton]

would love to see this transition (single>butterfly>reaper>heal hook) make it to MTS. great work!

[AJ Camacho]

When securing butterfly for the reaper.. what key grips are you ideally looking for and what major grips are you defending against in order to defend your setup?

I noticed that Yokkel had his left hand on the guy's shin before he pivoted out and shoved him back to make space for the reaper. Was that ideal or an adaptive maneuver?

[Chris Herzog]

When securing butterfly for the reaper.. what key grips are you ideally looking for and what major grips are you defending against in order to defend your setup?

I noticed that Yokkel had his left hand on the guy's shin before he pivoted out and shoved him back to make space for the reaper. Was that ideal or an adaptive maneuver?

Starting from the Cocoon position with a over/under is the standard starting position for The Reaper(from butterfly guard).

That was an adaptive move by Scott, I think (and he can answer that himself) he was still in the midst of transitioning to butterfly guard from his single leg attmept and his opponent gave him the opening for the reaper before he was actually in the Cocoon position, so he just went for it for.

[Chris Herzog]

Scott will be the first one to tell you he still has work/reps to do on the reaper series, all though he is hitting almost everyone in competition with The Reaper and is currently my number one guy when it comes to leg locking guys in competition (he just recently passed Wally a very impressive leg locker in his own right) he still makes mistakes and he needs to refine the transitions. He gets away with it, because most people have no clue as how to defend or even see it coming. But the stiffer the competition the tighter he'll need to get those transitions, which will open other options (toe holds, calf crushes, taking the back, etc.)when his opponents actually start defending it correctly.

Not to mention Scott is currently only using the rear sweep off The Reaper and hasn't even touched the forward sweeping Reaper in competition yet, which opens up a whole different path

[Conner MACHINE Gibbons]

Wow........Scott won with a heel hook !!!!!!! When the F@#K did he learn those ???????? LOL.


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