Kids Rock

Hey gang, getting a few entries from our younger entrants which just goes to show that Crazy-ass gi designing fever is sweeping all the age groups!

Here is one created by the 5 year-old son of one of our contestants. He say his mum designing her own gi and thought he would try to same, totally unprompted without any help, here is his effort:



and here's one by a 15 year old girl who's father sent in her entry. His daughter has been training BJJ for two years so is well and truly a BJJ addict!



Of course how heartless could I be if I did not let my own kids have a go at the Crazy-ass gi design? so here is my 4 year old daughter's kitty inspired effort:

And this is my 2 year old son's Ben 10 inspired artwork. Lovely!

Finally, let me give a shout out to new online BJJ news media service BJJHQ, run by Aaron Gaskill. He's just submitted his design and he plugged our contest on his site. Thanks Aaron!

Prizes prizes prizes!

Oooh good people, I'm so excited I nearly ripped my ripstop pants! But seriously how cool is a competition where winners get the chance to have their fantasy custom gi actually made for real? But better than that, how cool is a contest where the silver and bronze medalists can walk away being the envy of the crowd with their prizes? Oh yes people, I can now officially reveal that a second winner of our Crazy-Ass design a gi contest will win Tatami Fightwear's brand new, not even yet available to buy for mortal folk - Estilo Competition Kimono. See the photos below and whet your appetite:

Wow! How bling is this gi. Bling I say! A little spec about the gi: lightweight pearlweave jacket and canvas trousers with cool contrast stitching, trim and drawstring, and brand new patches and logos. Ooh niiiiice! Wearing one of these, you'll be too busy high fiving your team mates to actually go training.

But wait, there's more. Our sponsors said, hey Crazy-Ass contest person you, why only two top prizes? let's offer a third, uh huh a third awesome gi prize. So for one more lucky winner, you will win a top of the range ZERO G gi. Man this gi is so popular they can't make enough of them. In sexy black or pure lovely white, the Zero G is an awesome uniform and light as a sparrow's tail feather. Okay, I lied, the Zero G is actually lighter than a sparrow's tail feather. Some photos:

Hey, if a Tatami gi is good enough for Fernando Terere, it's good enough for us mere mortals, right?

More details about winning categories later - it could take us some time to check out each and every one of the TWO HUNDRED gi designs that have just been submitted. I mean WOW! people, I love you all, thanks so much for taking part. I can reveal that the top finalists, selected by our panel of expert judges will be announced on Tatami Fightwear's Facebook Group page - so go join the group.

But the contest still has a couple weeks to go so you have plenty of time - we're closing entries 15th September 2010. Be a crazy-ass gi designer now.

Here Kitty Kitty

The Crazy-ass design your own gi challenge is officially the most addictive phenom in the world right now! Don't believe me? Well you should ask some of our contestants who have been busy scribbling their efforts by the multitude. Top contributor still goes to Korean BJJ blogger Julia Johansen who submitted x19 designs. Hmm, one shy of twenty Julia - comeon we like round numbers!

Another blogger, Stephanie aka Jiujitsunista, is out from training due to injury, but she's obviously channelled her BJJ lust into designing gis - all six of them including this femme tastic little number below!

Not to be outdone, Stephanie's sister Allie, aka Allie the Clear Belt- also a BJJ nut and blogger has offered us her kat-tastic design:

We've also been featured over at top BJJ and Judo interview website Kombat Clinic. I thoroughly recommend you pop on over to KC for interviews galore with elite grapplers from around the world.

Finally, I leave you with this video - the second made by our Crazy-ass gi partner Liam proving that inspiration for gi designs can literally come at any time, anywhere!

CRAZY-ASS GI DESIGN COUNTRIES

Yo! This is a quick snapshot of the countries where people have been visiting this challenge-blog:

As you can see, that's just in the past week or so!

How often in a lifetime does an opportunity like this come along? Where you can express yourself artistically and freely, risk nothing and win it all? Competing against people from all over the world???

Don't wait. Express yourself!

Liam "The Part Time Grappler" Wandi

But I can't draw!

Yes you can! If you can churn out armbars, triangles and flip flying fantastic guard passes aplenty, then you have the brains to put a pencil onto a piece of paper and scribble a design - no computer skills needed. Look...here are some recent entries where the contestant did not have access to a computer to design his gi:









In other news, a big Crazy-ass gi thank you to all our blogger brothers and sisters for blogging about the comp: Steve Zacher sent us his very imaginative designs (the butchers cut above is one of them), Daniel Mower who writes the snazzily designed Arcanum blog sent some stunning contributions, Jay Beard way out there in Arkansas blogged about the comp with his Elvis inspired outfit...oh yeah people, bloggers united we stand!

And, you can catch more about the comp on the popular weekly newsletter BJJ Weekly. Subscribe to BJJ Weekly now to catch up with tons of cool content, techniques, hints, tips and articles. Don't forget also to join our Facebook group and, if you fancy, have a mosey on down at our sponsor's website to see the cool banner they created to advertise the comp.

Finally, Crazy-ass gi HQ did not post this on Sherdog, someone else did, and it seems to have elicited some rather 'interesting' unofficial gi designs. go check it out here.

Thank you guys, keep rolling, keep designing. Osu!

We cheated!

Liam and I are so addicted to designing gis that we can't stop entering designs ourselves. Of course our entries are not eligible for the final showdown and prizes (drat!) but we did them anyway.

Here's Liam's monkey themed gi:



I like the check inner lining and cutesy monkey logos.

I've gone for the ultimate in team-themed gis - the Hannya! this Japanese god or demon figure is the basis of the logo in the club that I train at: Mill Hill BJJ. We are part of the Roger Gracie Team, hence the wording on the back.



If you think you would like to hav a go, then send us your entries. We've got lots of prizes to give away thanks to our sponsors Tatami Fightwear!

One Hundred!!!

We've now gone moving footage friendly! That's right you can now watch the young and lithe Liam talk with wild enthusiastic passion about the Crazy-Ass gi campaign.

In other news, we've hit 100!!!!!! Wooot!!!!!

Yep, we've just had out 100th entry courtesy of the prolific horse-loving BJJer down under, Fenix. Thanks Fenix, hope to see more!

Here are some awesome gi designs from today: