Feck you and your Crusty Gi!

**EternalRage** · Posted On: 12/15/2008 6:19am

It's terrible when noobs do this.

It's even more mindboggling when a black belt does this.

**Lebell** · Posted On: 12/15/2008 6:47am

Originally Posted by Lily

In fact I'm gagging from the memory. I was worried about catching something from the OPEN CUTS/MAT BURN on my hands/face etc.

*looks at Lilai's stylefield*

ahahahahahahahahaha!

**Silvan** · Posted On: 12/15/2008 7:23am

I have 3 Gis and I wash them after every practice. I thought this was normal?

**foxd** · Posted On: 12/15/2008 7:56am

I only own one but I don't bring it if I haven't washed it first. The only problem so far is that there's this collection of dirt or something around the knees that will not come off, and I'll be damned if I bleach the thing.

**Gabetuno** · Posted On: 12/15/2008 8:26am

Ever since I started I always washed my gis directly after use. For a while though, despite this rigorous laundry ritual (and the fact that I own 4 gis, soon to be 5), my gis would really start to smell powerfully after I'd work up a sweat. It was noticeable even to me.

Then my instructor told me about how colored gis (I own no white) always develop a funk because you can't bleach them. If I wanted to fix the smell, I should wash them with color safe bleach.

I do this now, and have the most pleasant scented gis in the dojo.

</gay laundry story>

**M.C.** · Posted On: 12/15/2008 8:44am

Despite the fact that I was my Gi after every use I also have those "darker" (slightly) spots at the neck and where the other people use to grab a lot and I tried washing it two or three times but it didn't help.
So I thought about bleaching it, I am not sure how this works out because I have a gi with patches and some artwork on the back and I don't wana ruin the thing by bleaching it... I guess I should only buy blue Gi's from now on. Or black ones with the "get of my back" logo in the neck, that thing rocks.

**Vieux Normand** · Posted On: 12/15/2008 8:58am

Every dojo should have a back-alley exit. Anyone showing up with putri-gi should be taken out to said ally and the offending garment doused with kerosene. Once it's been set alight, the offender can try to doff it as quickly as possible. Live or die, repetition of aforementioned offense is unlikely.