Template:Using Your Legs

Much as you can kick as well as punch, you can use your legs to grapple. To do so, you must be facing your adversary and not pinned. You have -2 to DX or skill, but +2 to ST. The DX penalty stems from using your legs, not from posture. You only suffer penalties for a non-standing posture against a standing foe; Low Fighting and Ground Fighting affect these normally. Your enemy's posture might give additional penalties to grapple certain hit locations from some postures; see Postures, Hit Locations, and Techniques. If you grapple with legs from a standing start, you avoid all posture penalties but end your turn lying face-up. It counts as a step to leap up, use your legs, and fall; see Change Posture.

Grapples using legs allow all the usual follow-ups – takedown, pin, strangle, bear hug, Neck Snap, etc. – at -2 DX, +2 ST. You can learn leg-based versions of grappling techniques for this. Each is a separate technique with an extra -2 on its default. All get +2 ST – or +1 to damage, if there's no ST roll. Options include:

Leg Throw: As Judo Throw, but defaults to Judo-2.
Lower-Body Arm Lock: As Arm Lock, but defaults to Judo-2 or Wrestling-2.
Lower-Body Head Lock: As Head Lock, but defaults to Judo-5 or Wrestling-5.
Lower-Body Leg Lock: As Leg Lock, but defaults to Judo-2 or Wrestling-2.
Triangle Choke: As Choke Hold, but defaults to Judo-4 or Wrestling-5.