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Originally Posted by Lovesong
Can you elaborate on the reverse scarfhold counter? I can't picture it, and reverse scarfhold gives me absolute fits. Are you saying your outside leg (the one that would normally rotate in for a butterfly hook) hooks all the way over his free leg? I must be misunderstanding something...
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Yep, that's what it is. You keep the bottom leg hooked, and your outside leg steps over his free leg, which will be nearly parallel to his trapped leg (rather than perpendicular, as it needs to be to keep good base from the reverse scarf pass). I'm not quite sure what you would call that position, it's a little strange since your legs are basically crossed over each other. Then I let go of the bottom leg hook (so I can bridge with it), make sure I have the crossface (not the underhook, it should be the crossface), and bridge into the guy. I easily reversed a 250 pound opponent who had been giving me fits from reverse scarfhold with this. I watched his leg come close, stomped over it, and then drove in.
Now I'm not sure if that's the technically correct way to trap the leg with that sweep. I think the other way you could go is to use your bottom leg to trap. Then you could drive in with the other leg, or I suppose use it as the butterfly hook. That would look more like a mount escape. I got the move from a Michael Jen dvd, so I'll go back and take another look at what he recommends.
This leg-trap sweep works well because so many opponents will "hide" their leg in reverse scarfhold so that you can't elevate them by grabbing the leg. When it's perpendicular (as it should be to give them good base), then you can easily grab it. So when you grab at their leg, they commonly pull it back and low. It is then the perfect time to trap that leg and sweep.