Hanne Mårds came to BJJ in 2013 after fifteen years of Capoeira, taking her first jiu-jitsu lessons under Eduardo 'Teta' Rios at Frontline Academy Oslo. By 2015 she had committed fully to the sport, leaving Capoeira behind in favour of mat time at Frontline.
She has since become an active competitor on the Norwegian and Scandinavian circuit, with enough visibility for the British platform Women Who Fight UK to feature her as one of the representative Norwegian female competitors of her generation.
Her path — a long, accomplished career in another movement art, followed by a complete pivot to BJJ in her thirties — is a recognisable Norwegian pattern. Mårds is one of the practitioners showing that a serious second sporting life can be built inside Frontline Oslo at a time of life when most adults are leaving the mats rather than arriving on them.