How to wash a BJJ gi
- Wash your gi immediately after training. This helps to reduce odours by limiting the time the gi fabric fibres absorb odorous germs from training.
- Always wash your belt. This
should go without saying. A dirty belt will soon smell bad and might
contribute to skin infections to you and your training partners.
- Scrub stains with running cold water immediately before washing. If
the stains are still present after washing, consider submerging the gi
overnight in a bucket filled with cold water with some white vinegar
before washing again.
- Avoid bleach. This can weaken the fabric fibres in a gi and strip colours from the fabric.
- Turn your gi inside out before washing. This
can preserve the colours, patches and the overall condition of the
outside of your gi as it won’t rub against other clothes during the
wash.
- Wash in cold water on a gentle setting. Washing
in warm or hot temperatures can shrink your gi and/or damage the
collar, so wash your gi using a cold temperature. Many manufacturers
like Tatami recommend washing at 30 – 40 degrees celsius / 86 – 104
Fahrenheit.
- If you’re washing your gi with other clothes, only wash with similar colours. Throw your gi in the wash with similar colours to avoid colours running.
- Consider using an organic or mild detergent without softener. Using
these types of detergents will avoid the effects harsher detergents
have on the gi fabric, and will help your gi last longer.
How to dry a BJJ gi
- Remove your gi from the wash immediately. This helps to reduce the chance of your gi smelling.
- Hang to dry your gi. Putting
your gi in a tumble dryer will stress out the fabric, and tumble drying
at warm temperatures can also shrink your gi and warp the collar.
- Avoid direct sunlight. Direct sunlight can dry out your gi fabric and reduce its overall durability.
- To speed up drying, use a fan. If
you need to speed up drying, consider hanging the gi in a room with a
fan. Tatami recommends hanging the gi approximately 1 metre / 3.2 feet away from a radiator to help increase drying.
- Do not iron over a gi. This can damage or ruin your gi fabric and patches. If you really want to iron your gi, turn it inside out and avoid ironing over patches.
Other washing and care tips
How to correctly shrink a gi
Gi manufacturer Ground Fighter has some great tips for shrinking a gi without damaging it. According to Ground Fighter, gi pants will shrink faster than a gi jacket, so keep this in mind when shrinking and consider shrinking each item separately using the methods below.
First, wash your gi normally once or twice to see how much it will naturally shrink. Almost all cotton gis will shrink after their first wash, even if they’re pre-shrunk.
If your gi is still too big, wash it in warm water and dry it normally to see if the fit improves.
If this still isn’t enough, wash the gi again in warm water, but this time put it in a tumble dryer on a warm temperature, and take the gi out every five minutes to see how it fits. Once you’re happy with the size, hang your gi to dry it.
Washing and drying a hemp gi
Hemp gis will normally “shed” some of the fabric when you first start wearing them, but after the first 3 – 6 washes this will be minimal.
Other than this, hemp gis should be treated the same as other gis when washing. Avoid using bleach when washing, and as mentioned above, wash in a cool temperature and hang to dry.
Regularly rotate your gis to keep them longer
Wearing and washing the same gi several times per week will inevitably cause wear and tear and reduce its lifespan.
One way to stretch out the lifespan of your gi is to have multiple gis that you rotate regularly each week. This will evenly distribute the wear and tear so you don’t burn through a gi too quickly.
This also gives you the benefit of having a backup gi, which is useful at competitions if the uniform official doesn’t think your primary gi is satisfactory.
How to wash and dry no gi BJJ gear
Washing no gi rashguards, fight shorts and spats is basically the same as washing a gi:
- Turn all of your gear inside out first. This minimises damage to the prints and patterns on your rashguards and shorts.
- Secure the velcro on your fight shorts.
Velcro can rub against your clothing and cause damage to fabric and
prints, so it’s best to secure any velcro by pressing the velcro tabs
together.
- Consider putting your fight shorts into a washbag.
If you’re washing your shorts together with your spats and rashguard,
consider buying a cheap wash bag from your local supermarket and placing
the shorts in the bag to be safe.
- Machine wash in cold water on a gentle setting.
- Hang dry only and avoid direct sunlight.
- Do not iron your rashguard.
Source from https://www.bjjsuccess.com/how-to-wash-and-dry-a-bjj-gi/
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