Meet the Pandas – The Panda from Paris – Claire-France Thévenon
In Meet the Pandas we explore what drives the many members of the Panda Nation. In the previous episode we introduced Javier Palomo: walking encyclopedia of the grappling arts, host of the Grapper Union Podcast and combat wrestling world champion. Now, we put the spotlight on BJJ black belt Claire-France Thévenon of MK Team, multiple time IBJJF medalist, 4th degree judo black belt, half guard sweeping machine and French panda. After Claire-France Thévenon discovered Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, it took a while for her to let go of her judo instincts, ingrained by years of competition. Now, she teaches and trains full time at her academy MK Team Paris, adding visualizations and mental conditioning to her already powerful hybrid judo & BJJ...
Jiu-Jitsu Strategy: The Persistent Threat Concept
Marshal’s new blog discusses the strategic concept of establishing a persistent threat in every position. Learn more in his new blog!
Ten Exercises for Guard Players
Upgrade the power of your guard with these 10 exercises from Panda Nation’s Alexander Sterner.
The Unimportance of Competition
Marshal has a competition-neutral stance with his students, leaving it up to them to decide if competition is a path they want to take. In this article, he breaks down that philosophy, its benefits, and its challenges.
Concept-Based Learning in BJJ
Learning to see the concepts behind techniques accelerates your learning by leaps and bounds. In his latest blog post, Matt talks about how to shift into this concept-based mindset.
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From Athlete to Coach: 10 Years of International SAMBO Competition [Part 2]
You can read Part 1 of Reilly's journey by clicking here. A few years before moving from New Orleans to California, I made another attempt at the USA Sambo Championships. I won a silver medal as the only American-born citizen in a field of Russians and Moldovans. It would be a few years until the USA regulating body would separate the US Open from the US Championships, so American athletes were always doomed to losing their own national event to better ex-Soviet Bloc Sambists. Regardless, I was proud that I advanced one podium spot since the last time I tried. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Reilly Bodycomb (@rdojo) on Oct 31, 2017 at 10:34am PDT The...
The Revenge of the Plateau, Episode 75
The dreaded training plateau. Marshal talks about this longest plateau ever and how he beat it.
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...
Smaller Circles
When my mom tells me the story of my time in kindergarten, first there’s the mandatory prelude of the battle to get me into the building. As soon as we parked, I would turn into a spider monkey and get a hold of anything that would keep me in the vehicle. I was not big fan of the whole schooling thing it turns out.Another story she loves to tell is how I would get an classroom activity to draw as many circles as I could on a sheet a paper. My first attempt was to draw one giant circle the size of the sheet of paper and turn it in. When I was told I needed to try again and...
Why I Am Better Than You
In his newest article, Marshal writes about why his jiu-jitsu is better than yours (and what you can do to improve).