Your Training Partner can smell your gi
It smells “fine” out of the dryer.
Then you start rolling … AND …
the funk comes right back.
Your detergent & soaks only clean the surface. But the bacteria and body oils causing the smell are buried deep in the weave AND encased in polymerized body funk. No wash cycle reaches them. No soak penetrates the problem deep enough.
GRPLSoak does. It’s a one-time nuclear reset for your jiu jitsu gear.
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Designed by a grappler, for grapplers. Engineered in Columbus, OH with 20+ years on the mats
Your Gi isn’t dirty — it’s Colonized
The Real Problem
You've tried everything. OxiClean, white vinegar soaks, baking soda, washing multiple times. It smells clean. Then you train, you sweat, and it's back instantly.
That's because the funk isn't on the surface. Bacteria form colonies deep in the fabric weave — protected by a biofilm layer that detergent can't penetrate. Your body oils polymerize into the cotton fibers over months of training. Every wash cycle cleans around the problem, not through it.
GRPL Soak isn't a detergent. It's a 2-phase deep reset soak that reaches what other products can't.
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How GRPL SOAK WORKS
A targeted two-phase protocol that destroys embedded funk at the source — not a weekly wash replacement.
Step 1 - Destroy
Break apart the bacterial colonies
The highly alkaline, oxidative powder generates sustained oxygen bleach activated at warm water temperatures. For 90 minutes, the alkalinity and oxidation penetrates deep into the fabric and destroys the polymerized biofilm layer protecting odor-causing bacteria. Additional odor encapsulating molecules trap and rinse away first layer of odors. Drain water. (Leave residual water in clothing to maintain alkalinity)
Warm water · Add powder · Soak 90 min · Drain & rinse
Step 2 - Eliminate
Break down what bacteria feed on
New warm water, then you pour in the enzymes (vial). Specialized protease and lipase enzymes spend 90 minutes breaking apart the the persistent dried sweat proteins and body oils embedded in the fiber — the fuel source that lets bacteria recolonize after every wash. Remove what they eat and they can't come back. Bonus: cellulase enzymes resurface the frayed cotton fibers, decreasing new colonization sites
Fresh warm water · Add enzyme vial · Soak 90 min
Then wash and dry as normal. The GRPL Soak does the surgery.
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The Science behind the soak
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Why I created GrPL Soak?
I hated having gis and rashguards that smelled fine before training, and then…BOOM…the second I start sweating, they reek like rancid ammonia and funk.
I wasn’t going to be the smelly guy at the gym, so I ended up throwing away countless gis and rashguards, over the years. Probably $1,000’s of dollars worth of gear added all up. This of course was after trying vinegar soaks, Oxyclean, drying in the sun, and on and on…and nothing really worked. But I knew there must be something that could fix the inevitable funk that accumulates over the months.
So I started doing research. What causes recurring funk? What fixes it? And why current solutions don’t work? I even looked into unusual fields, like medical textile cleaning, commercial hotel textile detergents, etc.
Basically what I found was:
1) it’s definitely possible to defeat the funk,
2) traditional detergent companies don’t address it, because it’s more profitable to clean “normal” clothing,
3) the proper ingredients are more expensive & difficult to source,
4) To do it right, you need to clean in 2 steps — the required ingredients “de-activate” each other in a single container.
5) Jiu Jitsu is incredibly WEIRD — we wear insanely thick cotton gis, or highly engineered synthetic rashguards…we sweat in them, get other peoples’ sweat on them, and then they sit in our bacteria-laden gym bags until the wash. We wash with normal (suboptimal) detergents over many cycles, without completely penetrating the fabrics. The repeat drying cycles slowly polymerizes our biofilms around the odor-causing bacteria. We literally create and fortify the recurring funk through our obsession with training (and repeatedly using shitty detergents and soaks designed for everyday clothes.)
Long story, short. I sourced the required ingredients, tweaked the recipe countless times, then finally achieved a concoction that worked for me — GRPL Soak. I even did torture tests, and left unwashed gis and rashguards in my gym bag for multiple days. They smelled like cat piss and sewer juice. I didn’t even wash them first (which I would still recommend). I just used the GRPL Soak system, and voila. The next time I trained, it was reset like new gear. It didn’t smell to me — and more importantly my training partners didn’t smell anything. I figured if it’s been helpful to me, it can be helpful to my fellow jiu jitsu brothers and sisters.
Brian Dick - Founder Selvage Labs - Columbus, OH
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Funkiest Gi Guarantee
Use it on the worst gi you own. If it doesn't fix the smell, we'll refund you in full. No questions, no hassle. We built this to work — and we stand behind it.
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