Crossed Legs Stand Up “Progressions” We can used the crossed legs stand up as a way to wrestle up when a standing opponent is crowding our space. Practice these progressions as slow and controlled as possible. Then doing them at full speed becomes much easier. 1. Get comfortable going from seated guard to balancing on two knees. 2. From two knees we transition to one knee up, one knee down. 3. Before we stand up, rotate our back foot directly behind our back knee switching from shoe lace down to