How do you keep up with the laundry?

It seems to me that hardly a day goes by when I'm not washing at least one or two gi's.  I have gi's, 2 for BJJ and 2 for judo (different cut and no patches on the judo gi).  If I do double classes, then I'm washing two gi's and all the accompaning gear (sports bra, leggings, rashguard).  With judo and BJJ, I can't rewear them without washing them because I sweat so much.

i have a giant ugly pile of gi's (daughter's and mine) in the corner of my bedroom.  we only go to one class a day, and we have 2 gi's each, so i can wash every other day and get away with it.  all 4 gi's make 1 load of laundry... and daugher never sweats so much, so i could probably skip washing hers if i needed to.  i don't have a good answer for that one... if you sweat much, they kind of have to get washed... or ewww stinky gi.  my dad is a big proponent of air drying gis though... he has 4 and washes one imediatly when he gets home, hangs it, and takes the next one.  cuts on drying expense and the gi lasts a lot longer (but gis take forever to dry)

I have 5 dobaks (gis). 1 black one (higher ranks are required to wear them when lower ranks are testing) and 4 (or maybe 5?) white ones. basically enough to not have to do laundry more than twice a week. I do sweat a lot, tho, so I can only wear them once, but since I bleach the white ones, I don't have a prob with the smell. the black one needs to be washed immediately (cause of the no bleach factor).

that said, I like Jessie's dad's air drying method. although, does he wash them by hand? or does he have a washer at home? I don't have a washer but I *could* ask the laundry lady to air dry them. what are the benefits of that? don't they come out more wrinkled when you air dry?

also (maybe this is a stupid question?) - what's a rash guard? never used one! :)

he washes them in a reguar washer, but hangs them dry.  the advantage is they don't wear out.  a Judo gi (especially a double weave) is a fairly dense fabric anyway, so wrinkeling isn't an issue, especially as he hangs them right away, but air dried gi's stay much stiffer than tumble dried ones (part of the not wearing out... some people call it breaking in)  so, my dad's gi's are always stiff and hard to grip, advantage for him.  plus, because a judo gi is so dense, the dry time for them is a bit longer than a large load of jeans ususally.  saves $

related but slightly different topic... how do you get someone else to keep up with their laundry?

there is a guy at judo, good size for me, nice guy, but he is increasingly stinky... pretty sure his body is clean, and his gi seems clean ish when he starts, but he sweats buckets, and 1/2 an hour in, i can hardly stand to be next to him.  any ideas for a gental way to give him a suggestion? i am not even sure what to suggest... i don't know if it his current sweat that stinks, or if heating up releases the stink in his gi.  but uggh!

A rashguard is basically a surfing shirt that can be worn under a gi.  It really helps with sweating and keeping the gi reasonably unstinky, plus as a woman I don't always want to risk my gi getting torn open and having my tummy exposed...especially since there are nasty, stinky, smelly men that I play with.

As far as getting someone else to not smell it really depends.  Is the smell mildew?  Is the smell more ammonia?  I've found that if I eat a protein powder that I smell (noticeably to those working out with me) by the end of class.  If I skip the protein powder I can still smell a faint ammonia whiff, but no one else has mentioned it.  If it's mildew then it's probably buried in his gi and he needs to wash it with bleach at least once and make sure it gets dried completely...line drying may not be sufficient for this.  You can also suggest that he get something like a rashguard to wear under the gi which should absorb most of the sweat.

Ahhh!  it is an incredibly strong amonia smell... and i know he has specific dietary restrictions he has placed on himself (not sure exactly what they are... but if a protien shake before practice creates an amoina smell... well, i wouldn't be surprized at all if that were realted)  If i have the oppurtunity, i may say something to him about a rash gaurd.  something to absorb his sweat would probably be a really good thing :) but as my cercumstances have changed, we'll have to see. 

I was getting that incredibly strong ammonia smell too, to the point that my instructor was asking me if I was washing my gi.  I cut out the protein powder that I had added and that helped considerably so that I'm the only one who smells it now.  I've also heard that having an apple or something with carbs before an intense workout can help.  I only get this with my BJJ, nothing else is intense enough to get it.

My research into it basically said that the body did not have enough fuel/glycogen in the muscles and was using the protein and knocking off the nitrogen atom for fuel and then you sweat ammonia.  I didn't feel bad, but I do not like smelling and there's something wrong when your sweat stinks like ammonia.

This is one of the advantages of Muay Thai -- we don't have to wear anything specific to train. 

I just wear a t-shirt and recycled swim trunks at the moment, so after class I wash them out in the sink with a little laundry detergent, then hang them up on the shower curtain rod to dry.  They're always ready by the next class.

We have uniforms at our school but they are just t-shirts and pants, not heavy cotton gi's that take forever to dry.  In the summer when we sometimes work out twice a day I just rinse my uniform in the laundry room sink and hang it on the deck to dry in the summer sun.  Otherwise my daughter washes our uniforms (she and I take kung fu together) three times per week (after each class) and my wife washes her own (tai chi) on the two days per week when she has class.  I agree that it is next to impossible to wear an unwashed uniform because of the smell from sweat.  I've tried Febreeze but it can't cut it enough.