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Wash your belt
6 year(s) ago • 12816 views • 230 replies
MGPurple beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
What would you do if in your experiment you find that your belt has the most bacteria out of all your training materials?
MGBlack belt 3rd degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
What would you do if in your experiment you find that your belt has the most bacteria out of all your training materials?
he would have to rub it on his skin in order to build up his immunity. In all seriousness the belt will not have more bacteria then his gi or cup.
JBlack belt 4th degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
What would you do if in your experiment you find that your belt has the most bacteria out of all your training materials?
Nothing, it would just show that I was wrong.
ARBlack beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
Phil I guess Anthony doesn't believe in herd immunity.
Nah. I believe in common courtesy for your training partners.
ARBlack beltVerified
DFBlack beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
If this ridiculous thread passes the Lasu thread I'll be very unhappy
MGPurple beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
If this ridiculous thread passes the Lasu thread I'll be very unhappy
I think that thread has died so it’s only a matter of time.
VBlack belt 2nd degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
If this ridiculous thread passes the Lasu thread I'll be very unhappy
The best post in this whole thread of posts in this wash your belt thread
DFBlack beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
If this ridiculous thread passes the Lasu thread I'll be very unhappy
CBlack belt 1st degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
It’s never been a topic till recently. That’s why it’s kind of funny to me.. gyms didn’t have hand sanitizer dispensers, nobody wiped down every single surface that was in the gym. The mats were mopped once every day and you washed your gi every other session, because washing them every day was a pain in the Ass. Plenty of dudes on here will admit that they threw their soaked gi in the back seat of there cars and they were dry by the next session and usually didn’t stink... So I guess since I didn’t do it my first 10 years in the game and nobody cared then. I surely don’t care about it during this decade because generation tide pod uses hand sanitizer after every time they open a door .
What??? People seriously do this?
For the time I've been training we were always told to take care of hygiene and wash our stuff after every session. I've also been washing my hands quite often since the first time I got hit with pollen allergies. Basically forever.
For the time I've been training we were always told to take care of hygiene and wash our stuff after every session. I've also been washing my hands quite often since the first time I got hit with pollen allergies. Basically forever.
JDBlack beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
What??? People seriously do this? For the time I've been training we were always told to take care of hygiene and wash our stuff after every session. I've also been washing my hands quite often since the first time I got hit with pollen allergies. Basically forever.
Used too lol. We were cavemen. It was archaic.
TPBlack beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
The belt definitely doesn't get soaked in sweat & blood like your gi. Sometimes I sniff my belt, mostly to transfer all the knowledge that is stored in it back to brain, but also to find out if it smells foul. Almost never does, but sometimes I think I might've detected a smell and thus throw it in the wash. Maybe like once or twice a month.
(If you're clean yourself & sweat some in your gi, and hang it out in the sun to dry, it probably doesn't smell bad & is okay to wear for the for the next session. [This has been a necessity at some intense training camps.] I still don't like doing it.)
(If you're clean yourself & sweat some in your gi, and hang it out in the sun to dry, it probably doesn't smell bad & is okay to wear for the for the next session. [This has been a necessity at some intense training camps.] I still don't like doing it.)
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JBlack belt 4th degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
What??? People seriously do this? For the time I've been training we were always told to take care of hygiene and wash our stuff after every session. I've also been washing my hands quite often since the first time I got hit with pollen allergies. Basically forever.
BJJ has come a long way since the old days. When I first started we were rolling out stored Resilite wrestling mats in a racquetball court of an Olympus gym. We mopped and dried them when we were done but who know what was being done to those mats when we weren't using them. We, obviously, didn't have time to clean them before training as we had a small window of time allotted to the class. For perspective, at that time the only Black Belt within a 200 mile radius was Mario Yamasaki. The highest belt Yamasaki Academy had besides Mario were blue belts. Which meant that if Mario didn't show up and none of the blue belts showed up the most senior white belt ran class.
So it's not like BJJ schools could afford their own locations yet, and if they could it was a warehouse location in a terrible part of town. Certainly couldn't afford new mats with expensive cleaners, most gyms were renting space within a TKD school and we had to rely on their cleaning schedules and habits. When I first opened my location 13 years ago it was this situation exactly; rented a back room of a TKD school that was mostly used for daycare camps. One layer of thin puzzle mats with food and glitter and little feet with shoes running around on them all day. Did my best to keep them clean but there was not much to do.
Not a time and place for germaphobes or people who were worried about getting hurt. We were going to train even it meant doing it on carpet in someone's basement on garage. Maybe this can help you guys understand why I am laughing at people turning not washing your belt everyday into a big deal. It's about perspective.
So it's not like BJJ schools could afford their own locations yet, and if they could it was a warehouse location in a terrible part of town. Certainly couldn't afford new mats with expensive cleaners, most gyms were renting space within a TKD school and we had to rely on their cleaning schedules and habits. When I first opened my location 13 years ago it was this situation exactly; rented a back room of a TKD school that was mostly used for daycare camps. One layer of thin puzzle mats with food and glitter and little feet with shoes running around on them all day. Did my best to keep them clean but there was not much to do.
Not a time and place for germaphobes or people who were worried about getting hurt. We were going to train even it meant doing it on carpet in someone's basement on garage. Maybe this can help you guys understand why I am laughing at people turning not washing your belt everyday into a big deal. It's about perspective.
JBlack belt 4th degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
Sometimes I sniff my belt, mostly to transfer all the knowledge that is stored in it back to brain
I'm going to use this today in class and pretend I came up with it on my own.
MGPurple beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
I'm going to use this today in class and pretend I came up with it on my own.
I hope this thread gets deleted ;)
PDBlack belt 3rd degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
I actually get a kick out of this thread and the strong opinions on both sides
VBlack belt 2nd degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
I actually get a kick out of this thread and the strong opinions on both sides
I agree, to me the bigger danger is people not cutting there nails.
MGPurple beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
I agree, to me the bigger danger is people not cutting there nails.
I can’t argue this point.
JBlack belt 4th degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
Not cutting the nails is bad. Shaving within a 2 hour window of training is a terrible, terrible idea.
MGPurple beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
Not cutting the nails is bad. Shaving within a 2 hour window of training is a terrible, terrible idea.
Shaving your head within a two hour window of training is twice as terrible.
ARBlack beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
The belt definitely doesn't get soaked in sweat & blood like your gi.
Mine does. No joke, I have wrung out my belt before after open mat. lol. People are amazed by how much I sweat. I get made fun of for it. I used to have this boxing trainer that ripped on me the most. It was fair though. My gloves would be drenched from wiping my forehead. I do it uncontrollably when I'm training. Every time I would punch those mitts, spray would come off my gloves often hitting him in the face. I used to think that I sweat so much because I was so fat, but it never stopped when I lost weight.
CBlack belt 1st degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
This we can all agree on. I know a guy who got his eye cut up pretty bad when some raptor next to him was rolling like a maniac and landed his talon on his face. Trimming nails, covering cuts, washing your stuff should all be part of the beginners curriculum.
ARBlack beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
Not cutting the nails is bad. Shaving within a 2 hour window of training is a terrible, terrible idea.
Yes. Not cutting your nails is right up there with the most disrespectful things you can do to your training partners in my opinion.
VBlack belt 2nd degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
Shaving your head within a two hour window of training is twice as terrible.
Yes it does open yourself up for infection, that's for sure
MGPurple beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
Yes it does open yourself up for infection, that's for sure
Super uncomfortable too. Got some nice mat burn on my head today.
CBlack belt 1st degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
Wonder if ball wax would help prevent that?
JBlack belt 4th degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
Had a guy who would intentionally sharpen his nails before class to intentionally cut people. Biggest asshole I have ever encountered in my time training. He now owns and runs a gym somewhere near me, apparently.
VBlack belt 2nd degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
Had a guy who would intentionally sharpen his nails before class to intentionally cut people. Biggest asshole I have ever encountered in my time training. He now owns and runs a gym somewhere near me, apparently.
That's F'd up, the bacteria under nails puts a belt to shame. Ripping skin with nails and depositing that bacteria.
That guy needs to be punched in the face.
That guy needs to be punched in the face.
MGPurple beltVerified
5 year(s) ago
Had a guy who would intentionally sharpen his nails before class to intentionally cut people. Biggest asshole I have ever encountered in my time training. He now owns and runs a gym somewhere near me, apparently.
The only thing that would make this acceptable is if he wore a leopard print gi.
JBlack belt 4th degreeVerified
5 year(s) ago
He didn't last long with us.
