Jacob Yang got his second Continental Open silver at the African Open in Casablanca. In November last year, he got his first silver at the Pan-American Open in Montreal.
Yang scored ippon with a very low ura-nage in the first minute of his first match, against Mohamed Naami (MAR).
He won his second match also within a minute, using his favorite cross-grip drop morote-seoi-nage to throw Adris Jakubauskas (LTU) for ippon.
Soulaimane El Mekkaoui (MAR) gave him a hard time and took him into Golden Score. Once there, Yang threw him with a cross-grip morote-seoi for waza-ari.
As if to prove that his previous match, which went into Golden Score, was an anomaly, Yang threw his next opponent, Neil MacDonald (GBR), with his favorite cross-grip morote-seoi-nage for ippon in 37 seconds.
In the final, Yang found himself faced against Saigid Kerimov (RUS) who threw him with a hopping uchimata for ippon.
