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title: Switched off Glick, started Gordon Ryan's Foundation of Offense
description: Brian Glick's Only Way Out wasn't granular enough to embody. Moved to Gordon Ryan's Foundation of Offense V01 — added a verbatim transcript, a new principle, and a new skill to the Mat.
section: meta
tags: [meta, changelog, bjj, mat, content, sources, gordon-ryan, danaher]
genre: index
lastUpdated: 2026-05-02
url: https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/changelog/2026-05-02-foundation-of-offense-v01
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I'd been working through Brian Glick's *Only Way Out* on the Mat for a couple months — Volumes 01–02 transcribed verbatim, principles and skills extracted. The teaching was correct. The problem was the resolution. Glick tells you *primary hand supports, secondary hand supports* and that's true, but on the mat I kept losing the position because the explanations didn't tell me what to look at, what fails first, or how to recover when the primary grip gets stripped. I couldn't embody it because the picture wasn't detailed enough.

Gordon Ryan's *Foundation of Offense* (Danaher / B-Team lineage) goes a layer deeper on the same material. So I switched. This commit lands Volume 01 verbatim — 816 lines of transcript with `BilibiliTimestamp` components on every section marker — plus the two pieces I most needed Glick to spell out and he didn't. The new principle, [disconnect hips, re-center head](/docs/body/mat/principles/disconnect-hips-recenter-head), names the geometry shared by every rolling escape from a guillotine or kata-gatame: post hip, post knee, fall to a hip, drive the head from the hip back to the centerline. One principle, every variant. The new skill, [defensive hand position](/docs/body/mat/skills/defensive-hand-position), extends Glick's grip-fighting with the cue I was missing — *look toward the strangle arm*, chin to shoulder, so when the primary gets stripped the space between jaw and collarbone stays closed — and a deliberate four-step replacement sequence for when the primary does get beaten.

Glick's volumes stay on the site. The Mat index now lists both sources side by side: Glick as *worked through, switched off*, Gordon as *currently studying*. The principles and skills indexes inherit from whichever source taught them best.