Title: Sit-Out: Steps, Key Details & Mistakes | DARCE

Canonical: https://darce.app/techniques/wrestling/sit-out

> Sit-Out. Kick a leg through and sit to your hip to create space, then turn in to face the opponent.

# Sit-Out

- Wrestling
- Escapes & Reversals
- fundamental
- Referee’s position (bottom)
- 3 steps

Kick a leg through and sit to your hip to create space, then turn in to face the opponent. Also known as the Sit-out turn-in or the Sit-out turn-out. Here is the exact breakdown from the DARCE app: 3 steps, the details that make it work, and the mistakes to avoid.

## When to use it

Use the sit-out from the bottom when the opponent rides high or heavy on your back. Shoot a leg through and sit your hips out. It chains into the stand-up and the switch.

## Step by step

1. 01

   ### Referee’s position, bottom

   On all fours, hips ready to move.

2. 02

   ### Kick through & sit

   Shoot a leg through and sit your hips out to the side, breaking their chest pressure.

3. 03

   ### Turn in to face

   Spin in toward them on your hips to come up facing, escaping or even reversing to top.

## Key details

- Sit your hips all the way out to break their weight.
- Keep your near elbow tight so they cannot re-grab the waist.
- Turn in on the sit-out, not away, to face and reverse.

## Common mistakes

- Sitting out without clearing their arm from your waist.
- Leaving the hips under them so they re-flatten you.
- Turning the wrong way into their pressure.

## Common counters

Opponents follow your hips and stay on your back, or catch a front headlock as you turn to face them. If you leave their arm around your waist, they ride you back down. Clear the arm, turn in rather than away, and keep your near elbow tight.

## How to drill it

From bottom referee’s position, sit out and turn in on your partner’s call, ten reps on each side. Then add light resistance for three rounds of thirty seconds.

## Related techniques

- [Stand-Up Wrestling Build to your feet with hand control, clear the hips and turn in to escape to neutral.](https://darce.app/techniques/wrestling/stand-up)
- [Switch Wrestling Reach back over the opponent’s arm and sit through to spin around to the top position.](https://darce.app/techniques/wrestling/switch)
- [Granby Roll Wrestling Invert and roll over your shoulder, away from the opponent, to come up free or behind them.](https://darce.app/techniques/wrestling/granby-roll)

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