INSIDE LEG DRAG

The inside leg drag is the variation of the leg drag pass in which the attacker pulls the opponent's leg across the centerline from the inside line rather than the outside line. The technique is structurally a mirror of the conventional leg drag and is used most often as the counter to bottom players whose defensive positioning has neutralized the outside leg drag — typically by hooking the outside of the attacker's leg with De La Riva or by hand-fighting the outside grip.

The mechanics begin from a position where the bottom player has either De La Riva hook on the attacker's leg or has otherwise established defensive structure against the outside leg drag. The attacker grips the bottom player's leg from the inside (the inside line rather than the outside line) and pulls it across the centerline while stepping wide to the opposite side. The drag motion is the same as the conventional leg drag but executed from the mirrored geometry, and the landing position is the same — side control with cross-face and underhook established.

The inside leg drag is one of the canonical Atos competitive system variations of the conventional leg drag, used by Rafael Mendes, Tainan Dalpra, and Mica Galvao when the bottom player\'s defensive grip-fighting has denied the conventional outside leg drag entry. Defensively the inside leg drag is countered by maintaining the De La Riva hook strength rather than releasing under pressure, by counter-hand-fighting the inside grip before it consolidates, or by rolling out to reverse position.