Gymnastics Rips: Keep Calluses Flat, Heal Rips Fast
Gymnastics · Skin is gear

A rip on bars. Tape it, chalk it, finish the rotation.

Bars, rings and high bar take the palms apart one rip at a time, and the gym does not stop for it. Here is how gymnasts keep calluses flat under the grips, heal a rip in days instead of weeks, and come back with skin that holds.

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Why rips happen

The callus is the rip waiting to happen.

Every swing on the bar pulls the skin of the palm the same direction. A callus forms to take it, grows tall, and eventually folds under the grip and tears away from the skin underneath. Sweat speeds it up: wet skin under a leather grip softens and shears. Rips come at the end of a long rotation, when the hands are wet and the callus is at its tallest.

Gymnasts already know the ritual: tape, chalk, finish, deal with it later. The part that changes the season is later. File calluses flat every few days so there is no edge to fold. Keep the hands dry under the grips. Close a rip the same night so it is skin again by Thursday, not a scab that tears again. Rhino built this for climbers' hands. Gymnasts beat theirs up harder.

A training week, day by day

From Monday bars to Saturday meet.

Where gymnasts' hands go wrong across a week, and what goes on at each stop.

Night before · SunDry hands under the grips.

Performance on the palms before bed. Grips stay drier, calluses stay firm, fewer rips at the end of rotation.

Performance
Before bars · MonFlat calluses, no edge.

Thirty seconds with the file on anything raised. Chalk under the grips, not just on them.

80/100 Skin FileImpact Chalk
The rip · WedFinish, then deal with it.

Trim the flap flat, tape over it, finish the rotation. Glue the edge if it is lifting.

Rhinos' Own Adhesive tapeSuper glue
That night · WedClose it fast.

Split+ whipped balm on the rip, Repair on the rest of the palm. Two or three nights running.

Split+Repair
Meet day · SatSkin that holds.

Tip Juice on the healed spot during the week so new skin comes in tough. Massage Cream on forearms and shoulders after.

Tip JuiceMassage Cream
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The pack

What's in the grip bag.

Travel sizes in the grip bag. The file goes everywhere. Team pricing for the gym.

Power Company Performance Kit
All of it, one boxPower Company Performance Kit

Toughen, grip, close, recover. The hand kit, in one box.

The whole routinePower Company Performance Kit$66.75$56.95
10 items · pick a size, hit Add
Every few days80/100 Skin File$2.00
The night beforePerformance$8.95
Under the gripsImpact Chalk$19.95
Tape the ripRhinos' Own Adhesive tape$3.95
Lifting edgeSuper glue$2.00
Whipped balm, ripsSplit+$8.95
Every nightRepair$8.95
During the weekTip Juice$12.95
Forearms and shouldersMassage Cream$8.95
The shower afterAll Natural Castile Body Wash$5.95
The crew

The people who test this on bars.

Club gymnasts, NCAA, coaches. Four hours a day on apparatus, and they tell us what held up.

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Seen in the gym

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Taped palms, the chalk bucket, the stuck landing. This wall is yours.

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