This new BJJ shirt was designed by Mark Mullen, one of my very first jiu-jitsu training partners and occasional contributor to the Grapplearts blog. Obviously being a BJJ black belt he's a skilled grappler and instructor, but what a lot of people don't know is that he also does a lot of graphic design. So when he came up with this image of a charging Japanese dragon I thought it would make a … [Read more...]
T Shirts
New T-Shirts: Keep Calm and Grapple On
We just released these brand new shirts. I had fun looking into the history of the classic 'Keep Calm and Carry On' meme - turns out it comes from just before World War 2 where the British government was trying to bolster the public morale in the face of imminent war. They might boost your morale too, but hopefully your situation is a little bit less dire than Europe in 1939... There are … [Read more...]
Grapplearts BJJ & Submission Grappling T-Shirts
A lot of people ask me about Grapplearts shirts. And while I'm happy to create them I don't want to stock tons and tons of T-Shirt inventory in a cacophony of sizes and colours. That's why I tend to do shirts in limited edition campaigns: I put a design out there, and if we get enough interest in a in it then we go out and get the shirts printed up, ship them out, and then close down the … [Read more...]
Grappling Machine T Shirts, Only Available For 7 Days
Here's something that some of you will love, and some of you will hate... It's a brand new limited edition steampunk-style Grapplearts T-shirt: the 'Grappling Machine' design. No Affliction-style skulls, pitbulls, grim reapers or upside-down crosses in this design, sorry! We did a small test run of this design, and the few lucky people who got their hands on one of them loved it. … [Read more...]