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Preventing skin infections is possible with performance personal and academy hygiene solutions. Keep training 🥋🥊🇿🇦

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Setting the standard in technical hygiene for contact sport athletes ➡️

SportShield keeps athletes safe from infections with the best hygiene technology available in 🇿🇦.

We will only develop or recommend products that are best-in-class and meet strict quality requirements...

✅ 3rd party lab tested to ensure efficacy against pathogens that threaten your training
✅ Ingredient suppliers must evidence the relevant health, safety, and quality accreditations
✅ Production in quality-controlled pharmecuetical environments
✅ Powerful antimicrobial action while remaining skin safe and non-toxic

Transparency equals trust.

We practice transparency when it comes to claims, limitations, ingredients, testing, and accreditations. You can always...

✅ Request our lab tests
✅ View quality and compliance certificates
✅ Ask us hard questions

No fluff marketing. No bullsh*t.

We're focused on simple but effective solutions that keep you safe. We welcome criticality and skepticism.

We're not married to any one product.
We're married to preventing skin infections.

SportShield is built on continuous, solution-agnostic research into innovative hygiene technologies...

✅ We will only release products we believe are best in class
✅ If we learn something that changes our understanding, we'll change our product(s)

Remaining open to change means delivering the most effective skin protection solutions.

SportShield started with a problem, not a profit motive. Keeping our community safe will always be our top priority.

You can expect...

✅ Unparalleled, skin-safe products
✅ Lab-testing and quality assurance
✅ Ethical and local supply chains
✅ Clear and transparent communication
✅ Collaboration over competition

Staying skin infection free requires a hygiene system supported by daily practices and good quality products.

That's why we...

✅ Collaborate with other brands (even competitors), if they have products/services that meet our quality standards
✅ Share skin health and hygiene tips that help you build resilience against skin infections by @sportshield_sa

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From pro MMA champs to the best in BJJ, South Africa's top athletes trust SportShield. Here's why...

🥼 Lab tested: SportShield evidences efficacy through 3rd party lab testing.

💚 Skin safe: Robust protection that supports skin cell health and infection resilience.

📉 Proven track record: We've had real results helping athletes prevent staph, and other common skin infections.

Check out who uses SportShield every day --> by @sportshield_sa

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We're building a community around contact sport hygiene, and we'd like you to be a part of it.

Wether you're a gym, fight promotion, sports retailer, everyday athlete, or season pro, there's a way to work with SportShield ➡️

Gyms are our primary Hygiene Partners--elevating a culture of clean in our sport.

Gym Hygiene Partners get steep wholesale discounts on SportShield. Stocking and reselling our products...

✅ Builds an additional revenue stream for your business
✅ Helps your members stay safe and in training

Promoting good hygiene keeps your gym's reputation squeeky clean, encouraging new membership as well as keeping your existing member base, competition team, and coaching staff skin infection free.

💌 Send us a DM to request Hygiene Partner pricing on SportShield

Athletes are our key collaborators 🥋

We work with South Africa's top MMA, grappling, and striking athletes to produce technical hygiene products that keep fighters safe from skin infection.

In addition to unlimited product sponsorship, athletes shape our product roadmap and guide product development & testing.

We've helped a number of athletes break infection cycles and stay skin infection free during fight camps.

💌 Are you a pro keen to get behind the scenes with SportShield? Send us a DM.

💡 We're always looking for creative ways to add value to our network of athletes. Ideas? We want to hear from you.

Healthy athletes make better fighters.

We team up with fight promotions to improve fighter safety, reducing lost training time during fightcamp and last minute fight cancellations due to skin infection.

Think...

✅ Fight night hygiene stations, making SportShield available before and after bouts
✅ Product sponsorships to keep fighters infection free during fightcamp
✅ Product giveaways and prize packs

Fight promotions create a culture around the sport. Promoting athlete wellbeing and safety isn't just good for business, it's the right thing to do.

💌 Drop us a DM if you want to derisk your fight cards and support athlete safety.

We work with premier sports outlets to stock and resell SportShield.

From wrestling to rugby, SportShield provides the best in scie by @sportshield_sa

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3 months ago

OFFICIAL HYGIENE RULESET of Heat City Grappling, brought to you by SportShield.

To ensure the safety of all competitors, athletes are asked to:

✅ Shower before arrival at the competition venue
✅ Ensure finger and toenails are trimmed short and any sharp edges filed down
✅ Avoid walking bare foot off of the mats
✅ Wear a fresh/clean rashguard in each division you participate in
✅ Practice good hand hygiene throughout the course of the event

Visit the SportShield Hygiene Station on the event day to access hygiene essentials including antimicrobial skin spray, cleansing body wipes, and nail clippers.

#grappling #bjj #heatcitygrappling #keepitclean #bjjsouthafrica by @sportshield_sa

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THANK YOU SPORTSHIELD @sportshield_sa

@cerave by @sportshield_sa

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please buy SportShield so I can hire someone. by @sportshield_sa

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Micro-mini-series, Caity 2: The power of choice in Jiu-jitsu.

Everyone starts this journey for their own reason.
Everyone should be able to determine their reason for staying too.

For some, competing is something we'll try, get into, or decide against. I think there's power in the ability to choose and remain in choice throughout the journey.

Caity shares, with such clarity, why she chooses not to compete.

#bjj
#bjjsouthafrica
#martialarts taken in Pride Fighting Academy - PFA by @sportshield_sa

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2 days ago

A Halloween horror story…

@10thplanetcapetown x @sportshield_sa

#10thplanet #10p4l #bjjcapetown #10thplanetjiujitsu taken in Blouberg,Tableview by @sportshield_sa

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Welcome to our newest Hygiene Partner: @vector_mma_fitness 🤘🇿🇦

#mzansimma #bjjlifestyle #keepitclean #madeinsa #mmasouthafrica by @sportshield_sa

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Performing routine skin checks forms an important part of your hygiene protocol:

Early identification can help prevent major issues, making the difference between quick fixes and missed comps, major disruptions to your training, and serious health consequences.

Here's how to check your skin ➡️

⏰ When to check your skin....

Frequent checks reduce your risk of infection.

Pro and high volume athletes should be executing a comprehensive skin check every few days, and doing a quick scan daily, especially when in fight camp.

Hobbyists should do a comprehensive skin check at least once per week.

Check your skin before training when it is clean, calm, and dry.

🗺️ Where to check...

Comprehensive skin checks should scan the whole body; however, athletes can pay special attention to the following high risk areas:

1️⃣ Microbial hotspots

Bacteria and fungus love warm, dark places like your mouth, nose, armpits and groin.

2️⃣ High contact areas

Certain regions of your body experience higher microbial exposure during training.

Pay special attention to areas like hands and feet, neck, and arms and legs (especially if you grapple with short sleeve rashguards or without spats).

🚨 What to look for...

Your skin check should look for early warning signs of possible infection. This can include:

🔴 Compromised or damaged skin including small cuts and scrapes
🔴 Areas that look or feel inflamed or warm to the touch
🔴 Lesions on the skin, especially with pus or blood
🔴 Suspicious pimples or "spider bites"

👀 What to do if you spot something...

If your skin check returns something suspicious, act immediately. Swift action can make the difference between easy fixes and serious health consequences.

✔️Small wounds should be immediately cleansed and covered.
✔️Any suspicious lesions should be examined and appropriately treated.

If you are unsure of what a lesion is, or how to manage it, speak to your coach and a healthcare provider as soon as possible.

💚 Our motto is prevention before cure.

SportShield empowers athletes to take preventative action against skin infection with South Africa's only 3rd party lab-tested hygiene solution designed sp by @sportshield_sa

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Micro-mini-series, Caity 1: The founder of @sportshield_sa, Caity, shares how Muay Thai and Jiu-jitsu helped her process her anger and most importantly, what was beneath the anger: Fear.

Having safe male training partners has meant a lot to her throughout this journey - as it does for so many other women out there doing martial arts and combat sports.

#bjj
#bjjsouthafrica
#martialarts taken in Pride Fighting Academy - PFA by @sportshield_sa

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Every body carries germs.

That's why hygiene is a shared responsibility.

Every grappler--healthy or infection-prone, pro or hobbyist--has a responsibility to themselves and their training partners to keep the sport safe.

SportShield empowers athletes to take ownership of their hygiene status, reducing the risk that they spread harmful pathogens to others and immediately neutralizing germs that they pick up during training.

Preventing skin infection is possible when we work together 💚

#mzansimma
#barebonesmmachampionships
#keepitclean
#madeinsa
#BJJ by @sportshield_sa

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