Alias · Escapes & Defence
All-fours position escape
Also known as Turtle Escape Techniques — the canonical term used on this site.
Wrestling-derived — escape from all-fours (turtle) position
All-fours position escape is the wrestling-vocabulary name for the turtle escape — the bottom-player sequence to recover from a four-point defensive base back to a more neutral or guard position.
Etymology. “All-fours” is the wrestling-derived label for the four-point base (hands and knees on the ground); “position escape” attaches the defensive category. The compound predominates in wrestling-adjacent no-gi vocabulary; “turtle escape” is the BJJ-standard label.
Mechanics. The escape priority is recovering hip access and standing or rolling out before the attacker establishes back-control connections.
Cross-reference. “Turtle escape,” “all-fours recovery,” and “turtle recovery” reference related sequences. Full mechanical coverage on Turtle Escape.