Wrestling Mat Burn and Skin Care: Pass the Skin Check
Wrestling · Skin is gear

Pass the skin check. Make weight. Then wrestle.

No sport is harder on skin than wrestling, and no sport checks it more. Mat burn on the knees and face, cracked hands from the room, dry skin from cutting weight. This is how wrestlers keep skin intact and clean enough to step on the scale.

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Why wrestling checks skin

The strictest skin rules in sport, for a reason.

Wrestling is skin on skin on mat for two hours a night in a hot room. Any open spot is a doorway, so the sport built rules around it: skin checks before every meet, and a wrestler with a raw open patch can be held out. Mat burn, cracked knuckles and headgear rub are not just sore. They can cost a match.

The routine wrestlers already know is the right one: shower before you leave the room, cover anything open, keep the skin hydrated so it does not crack during a cut. Rhino makes that routine faster, and makes it to the car when the showers are full.

A practice night, hour by hour

From the room to the scale.

Where wrestlers' skin goes wrong in a week, and what goes on at each stop.

Before practice · 3 PMCover what is open.

Tape any raw spot. Performance on the feet so the base stays planted and the shoes stay drier.

Rhinos' Own Adhesive tapePerformance
Mat exit · 5:30 PMWash before you leave the room.

Castile wash in the shower. Showers full? Cleanse spray on arms, neck, face and headgear before the bus.

All Natural Castile Body WashCleanse
Home · 8 PMClose the burns tonight.

Split+ whipped balm on mat burn, cheek rub, cracked knuckles. Repair on everything else, every night of the season.

Split+Repair
Weigh-in week · ThuSkin during a cut.

Water leaves the skin first. Hydrate on anything tight or cracking. Repair twice a day until the scale.

HydrateRepair
Match day · SatPass the check, then recover.

Clean, covered, hydrated at the check. Massage Cream on neck and shoulders between matches.

Massage CreamAcupressure Massage Ring
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The pack

What's in the gear bag.

Travel sizes in the bag. Full sizes at home. Buy the wash by the case for the team room.

The Boss Bundle
All of it, one boxThe Boss Bundle

Rashguard, wash, balm and recovery in one box. Built with a pro fighter.

The whole routineThe Boss Bundle$52.95
10 items · pick a size, hit Add
Showers fullCleanse$9.00
Before you leave the roomAll Natural Castile Body Wash$5.95
Whipped balm, mat burnSplit+$8.95
Every night of the seasonRepair$8.95
Weigh-in weekHydrate$8.95
Feet, before practicePerformance$8.95
Anything openRhinos' Own Adhesive tape$3.95
Neck and shouldersMassage Cream$8.95
Under the singlet in the roomZen Rhino - UPF 50 Rashguard$34.95
Between matchesAcupressure Massage Ring$5.00
The crew

The people who test this in the room.

Folkstyle, freestyle, MMA. Our wrestlers and grapplers train every day and tell us what held up.

Chey "The Boss" Bowers
Chey "The Boss" BowersLFA champion, MMA

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Seen in the room

Show us the mat burn.

The cheek, the knees, the hand raised. This wall is yours.

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