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Tag: Marshal D. Carper
Drilling with Chaos
In this blog post, Marshal talks about how gradually introducing chaos into your drilling can help you bridge the gap between practicing a move on an unresisting partner and applying it during a live roll.
Building a Healthy Jiu-Jitsu Team
In many sports, the idea of a team is a clean-cut concept of shared success and responsibility. If you are on a soccer team, every player has to work together to win a game. That means communication, support, and collaboration. Each player is a part of a whole, and if a team loses a game, some breakdown in teamwork is often to blame.For sports where athletes compete as individuals, such as wrestling, the idea of a team is still present, though its application is different. The individual competes alone. She can’t pass the ball to another player or blame the fullbacks for being out of position if the game goes wrong. Instead, the role of the team is to help...
How to Guest Instruct
As you climb the ranks of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, your chances of having to fill in for an instructor go up as well. Under the best circumstances, your temporary upgrade from student to teacher will be shared with you beforehand, but veteran belts will likely grow accustomed to sometimes being the highest belt on the mat when the scheduled instructor simply does not show up to teach. By default, you run the class when this happens. The guest instructor format is equally freeing and restricting for the same reason: You get one class to teach. That means you will not be able to cover a grand curriculum that explores every depth and nuance of your favorite position, but then again, you...
How to be a Better BJJ Student
New for the Panda Nation blog: Marshal explores the process of learning how to learn jiu-jitsu to accelerate your progress.
When Your Wife Asks You to Quit BJJ
What happened when Marshal’s wife asked him to quit jiu-jitsu? Quite the story.
A Guide to Opponent Analysis
How do you analyze an opponent’s game as you enter fight camp? Marshal breaks down his process (with a real-life example) in this post.
Catching the Snitch Hidden in Crystal Lake
In his new blog post, Marshal talks about how a technique you learned five years ago can suddenly become relevant today.
My Gym Flooded
Not even a year after Marshal takes over a BJJ program, the gym floods. What does that mean for the gym community and the future?
5 Lessons and 11 Years of Jiu-Jitsu Writing Later
What do you learn from more than a decade of working behind the scenes in BJJ? Marshal has a top five.
A Jiu-Jiteiro Amongst Mixed Martial Artists
A few months ago, Marshal picked up a head instructor role at an MMA gym in Pittsburgh. How has training a mix of fighters and sport jiu-jiteiros influenced his teaching style?