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title: Wired Volume 02 into the Mat
description: Brian Glick's Only Way Out Volume 02 transcribed verbatim, plus the first 12 moves wired into the graph as edges across 6 positions and a new principle.
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tags: [meta, changelog, bjj, mat, content, graph]
genre: index
lastUpdated: 2026-04-26
url: https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/changelog/2026-04-26-wired-volume-02-into-the-mat
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Volume 02 of *Only Way Out* is on the site, transcribed verbatim with `BilibiliTimestamp` components on every section anchor. More importantly: the Mat's position graph went from zero edges to twelve. The techniques in this volume are embodied enough to earn pages, so for the first time `fromPosition` and `toPosition` actually point somewhere — front headlock bottom, half-guard bottom, top position, back control, seated guard, front headlock top.

The twelve moves landed in three chains. **Chain 1** — sit-through to half guard, knee lever (the locked-hands counter), and the trilemma that follows: scoop sweep, half-guard back take, knee-slide takedown. **Chain 2** — two-on-one pass-off to the arm-drag series: back take, sumi gaeshi, hiza guruma, plus the snap-down reversal. **Chain 3** — when the partner's hands won't unlock: thumb-post drag and sucker drag. One new principle came out of the volume too: [defense before escape](/docs/body/mat/principles/defense-before-escape) — defend the submission first, defend the go-behind second, only then escape. Every move in the volume runs through that ordering.