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Promotions: The Best and Worst Part
Promotions are the purest form of this balance and dichotomy: the joy and fear all wrapped up into one instant.
Tomi's T-Shirt: The Story of One Boy's Goal to Help No Kid Hungry
My nephew and I designed a special t-shirt, to sell and donate the proceeds to charity. After a brief talk about what charity options there were, he chose helping feed hungry kids.
Show us your Panda Gear!
Roll into the new year with some pristine grappling wear packed into a custom panda backpack by entering our photo contest!
Inverting Gear: How our Backpacks are Designed
It came time to design some backpacks for Inverted Gear, it took a long time to get my ideas together, and to narrow it down to 3 designs. Our rolltop bag is the first of these designs.
Inverting Gear: How Our Gis are Designed
when the Affliction/Tapout era was at its peak, we went the opposite direction and made the original panda gi. While we were at it, we tried to solve some problems that had bothered me for years.
The Lessons I Learned On My 10-Day BJJ Road Trip
I decided on a week-long road trip from New York to Florida. I would stop at every major jiu-jitsu destination along the way, training, trading secrets, and experiencing all the best jiu-jitsu the East Coast had to offer.
A note to our fans (about big changes)
We just rebooted our inventory and made a bunch of behind the scenes changes to make things better for Panda Nation.
7 Days of Panda Christmas
Gifts and Deals for Panda Nation Panda Nation has given us so much support over the years, and we are beyond grateful for what you have done for our family and for the jiu-jitsu community. Every Black Friday season, we have a tradition of big discounts, and we’re keeping that going this year with some products discounted as much as 50%.But we are going beyond sales this year and want to give you 7 gifts for the 7 days of Panda Christmas. Two of these gifts are instructionals from Reilly Bodycomb and Jon Calestine that are brand new and only available during this sale.If you buy from us between now and Cyber Monday, you get all 7 gifts. Here is...
The Panda Workweek
The other day someone asked me what I did before Inverted Gear. This caught me by surprise, it’s been a while since I thought about the time before all my energy was devoted to selling uniforms with a silly upside-down panda on them. This got me thinking about why I started the company and how my vision has changed over the years.Before I started Inverted Gear, I taught BJJ and had a part time job at my instructor’s painting company. I was there for about a year, and I learned so much about business during this time. But I wanted to create something of my own, and this is when the gi idea came along. The driving force for me,...
Sponsorship Opportunity – Cincinnati, St. Louis, Oklahoma City
We are looking for the best grapplers you’ve never heard of in Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Oklahoma City. Purple belt and up, do you know a good candidate? Learn more!