Martial arts · Skin is gear

The mat always wins. Your body learns.

Mat burn on the top of the foot that reopens every round. Knuckles torn up from gi grips. The cut on the elbow that turns into a week off because you let it get ugly. Gi or no-gi, the mat takes skin.

Pack the gym bag Find your way in

1 on the crew · see who

Skin is gear

Where this started

Skin on skin, skin on gi, skin on a mat forty people sweated on.

Fighters found Rhino before we found them. Climbers' hands and grapplers' hands take the same abuse, gripping fabric and skin for hours, and the knuckles, fingertips, and feet pay for it. The difference is the mat. Shared mats and a soaked gi are the fastest route to a problem nobody wants, so the routine starts with washing it off in the first ten minutes.

Then it got personal. Chey "The Boss" Bowers trained with it, fought with it, and helped design the rashguard that carries her name: UPF 50, four-way stretch, flatlock seams, second-skin fit, less skin on the mat. Cleanse, patch, recover, cover. Four steps between you and the week off.

Mat to shower

A class, start to finish.

Where skin goes wrong in a session and what goes on at each stop.

Before class · Warm-upLoosen the joints.

Massage Cream on fingers, wrists, and knees before the first roll. Warm tendons slide instead of catching. Tape the toe or finger that's been tweaky.

Massage Cream

Rhinos' Own Adhesive tape

Round one · RollingLess skin on the mat.

Rashguard on. UPF 50, four-way stretch, flatlock seams. Mat burn needs bare skin to start.

Warrior - UPF 50 Rash Guard

Zen Rhino - UPF 50 Rashguard

Round five · RollingGi grips, knuckles.

Hands have been squeezing collars for an hour. Nothing to do mid-round except notice which knuckle is opening.

The shower · Ten minutes afterWash the mat off.

Castile Wash with tea tree oil, head to toe. Cleanse spray for hands, feet, and gear when the shower is an hour away.

All Natural Castile Body Wash

Cleanse

That night · BedPatch it.

Split on cuts and mat burn. Split+ on torn knuckles. Repair on the whole hand. Massage Cream on whatever's cranky.

Split

Split+

Repair

Find your way in

Tell us what happens. We'll point.

No score and no wrong answers. Pick what sounds like you, and every answer opens another door: a fix, a page, a longer read.

The pack

What's in the gym bag.

Wash first, patch second, cover always. The Boss Bundle is the whole routine in one kit.

All of it, one boxThe Boss Bundle

The mat routine in one kit, built with Chey "The Boss" Bowers.

The whole routineThe Boss Bundle~~$143.75~~$129.95

10 items · pick a size, hit Add

The shower, every classAll Natural Castile Body Wash$5.95

Hands, feet, gearCleanse$9.00

Cuts and mat burnSplit$4.95

Torn knucklesSplit+$18.95

Every nightRepair$18.95

Before and afterMassage Cream$18.95

Fingers and toesRhinos' Own Adhesive tape$3.95

Collar-grip handsAcupressure Massage Ring$5.00

The Boss rashguardWarrior - UPF 50 Rash Guard$34.95

Zen Rhino rashguardZen Rhino - UPF 50 Rashguard$34.95

The crew

The people who test this on the mat.

Jiu-jitsu, MMA, wrestling, boxing. Our fighters roll, train, and compete, and they tell us what survives a camp.

Chey "The Boss" BowersLFA champion, MMA

Train hard, use Rhino, want in? Tap to apply.

Seen on the mat

Show us the mat burn.

Post-roll faces, the gi after a camp, the medal shot. This wall is yours.

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Watch

Straight off the feed.

Clips from our Instagram and the crew.

Field reports

From the comments.

★★★★★

“Awesome for quickly healing splits on tips or between finger joints. The chapstick size is seemingly bottomless and even the smallest amounts work wonders. A few applications a day heals up the worst splits in a hurry.”

★★★★★

“Not greasy, rubs right in, smells great, and most importantly, it does an amazing job at repairing the skin.”

★★★★★

“Great product, not just for dry skin but for dry joints. Love using this on my shoulders and knees after the shower, it really helps with joint pain.”