Stinky Wristbands

[JBS]

Alright...here's one for you.

I always have parents that smell their daughters wristbands for the first time. They just can't believe how bad they stink.

Make sure your gymnasts wash their wristbands every so often. Those things stink!

If you have stinky/sweaty/smelly wristbands, we want to here your story.

(Oh, I forgot about the 5 year old, too lucky to wash, wristbands).

[gymnchix]

oh goodness. my wristbands smell like death. haha yeah make sure they're washed often.

[gymbabisMom]

Gymbabi doesn't like having her wristbands washed. I thought it was because then she might forget to bring them back and not have any for bars the next day so I bought another pair. Those promptly dissappeared so we still don't wash her wristbands regularly. I do wash them when she brings them home before meets though.

[gymnchix]

I understand the fear of forgetting them, but sometimes its worth putting some prewrap on in the place of wristbands. Being able to knock your teammates out with the stench is never a good thing

[gymbabisMom]

Oh they like grossing eachother out like that!

[hammy]

I was a gymnast for 13 years and bars was my favorite and best event--I think I've only washed my wristbands maybe twice. I personally found that when they were washed they would slide, thus making my grips slide when i did bars. I liked them nice and stinky and crusty...lol--gross i know but we've all got our things.

[perfect10nist]

I am currently in the act of washing my wristbands because my tape grips somehow tore a huge chunk out of my wrist and the left wristband is now covered with blood.

[gymbratsmommy]

My dd's wrist bands smell pretty funky too. We keep a fresh pair just for meets in her bag.

I can totally understand the "luck" thing though. I skated competitively as a child and it was BAD luck if you washed your socks before Nationals.

[GymnastRaeRae87]

Here's a post EVERYONE can relate to. My wristbands are terrible!!! My coaches know too and we all laugh at how bad they are and joke that we will fall off the bars because we will pass out from the smell!! One time I had my BFF smell them, I was like SMELL!! and she was afraid because I was notorious for smelly wristbands but I had washed them the day before so them smelled really good! I smelled them first so she believed me! I even made my coach smell them so he would know I washed them!! LOL!

[gym law mom]

Our gym just put a shelf in right under the pit bar, so all the optional girls can leave their grips in their grip bags at the gym. Now on the one hand this seems like a fine idea----no girl with the panic on her face saying "I left my grips at home" and the screeching of tires as a parent races them to the gym.

The downside could be that as they are left practice after practice in the gym, the stench from wristbands may get pretty bad. Then the question is, which wristbands are the stinky ones? I'm going to have to ask my daughter to bring them home every few mos., so the wristbands can be washed.