Alias · Standing
Stand-up from turtle
Also known as Wrestling Up (Turtle Bottom) — the canonical term used on this site.
Training background: descriptive
Descriptive — standing up out of turtle
Stand-up from turtle is a descriptive name for wrestling up — naming the recovery of standing from the turtle position.
Etymology. “Stand-up” names the action of returning to the feet; “from turtle” names the position it starts from. The label specifies the turtle case of the broader wrestling-up skill of getting back to standing under pressure.
Mechanics. Standing up from turtle is a scramble to reclaim hip height: the bottom player drives to get their hips above the top player’s, and whoever wins the higher hips holds the structural advantage, so the stand-up succeeds when the hips rise clear rather than when the feet merely come under.
Cross-reference. “Wrestling up from all-fours” and “Base up” are sibling aliases. Full mechanical coverage on Wrestling Up (Turtle Bottom).