Grapple Girls Open 2010 - sponsors & supporters

Support Us

2010-07-26T20:10:00.000-07:00

Join us as a sponsor to affiliate your brand with our ground-breaking event, and help make it a success. Showcase your ongoing commitment to empowerment. And reach hundreds of like-minded women with your brand.

How you can contribute
If you think you can contribute, please contact us by email at grapplegirlopen@gmail.com. There are lots of ways to help:

Athlete sponsor: Sponsor one or more of your female students to attend the tournament by providing registration fee and travel expenses.

Financial sponsor: Help us raise funds to make this tournament memorable for the women attending. Read more about sponsorship package options (PDF)

Volunteer sponsor: Donate time, equipment, expertise and energy to help us put the tournament on (e.g. help at a table, organize competitors, etc.).

Precision Nutrition signs on as Gold Sponsor!

2010-07-26T20:09:00.000-07:00

Precision Nutrition is a nutrition education and solutions company, devoted to helping everyone from elite athletes to "regular folks" feel fantastic; look incredible; and perform at the top of their game. They offer top-quality books, videos, nutrition and lifestyle courses, coaching services, and an online support community.

In particular, they've redefined the field of sports nutrition with beautiful and practical books like the Grappler's Guide to Sports Nutrition and Gourmet Nutrition -- books that show us that we can cook well AND kick ass too. (And guess what? We'll be selling Gourmet Nutrition at the tournament, so get your salivary glands ready!)

PN has also helped literally thousands of people get into shape, achieve optimum wellness, perform better, and look foxy naked through their intensive, individualized, evidence-based for real-world results, and highly practical Lean Eating and Scrawny to Brawny programs, as well as their comprehensive manual and set of resources, the Precision Nutrition System.

Thanks to PN's amazing work and generosity, we're able to bring you a top-quality tournament experience.

Check them out -- they just might whip YOUR butt into shape too.

Bronze sponsor: Omega Alpha Pharmaceuticals

2010-07-26T16:36:00.000-07:00

Omega Alpha Pharmaceuticals is 100% Canadian owned and incorporated and manufactures and distributes over 100 natural health products, including herbal-based sports and fitness products as well as a line of natural health products for equine and small pets. Science + supplement = effectiveness.

Bronze sponsor: StrengthBox

2010-07-26T16:33:00.000-07:00

Remember how awesome it was when you were a kid and fitness was all about playing on monkey bars, jumping on rocks to cross a stream, and dragging things around to make a fort? StrengthBox remembers too. Being hardcore has never been so enjoyable. Real-world fitness is paramount, and there's lots of room to move, train and get strong. You won't find mirrors, rows of cardio machines or signs that say "don't drop the weights". There's no sales staff selling endless memberships. You will find the best in semi-private and small-group training, a supportive community, and programming that fosters amazing results!

Bronze sponsor: Kyle Byron

2010-07-26T16:28:00.000-07:00

Ever had that fantasy where a handsome, personable young man takes you by the hand and discusses the chemoprotective glucosinolates and isothiocyanates in broccoli with you as he guides you gently around the produce section of the grocery store? Yeah, me too.

Whether you’re looking to get ripped, get swole, or just get healthy, Kyle Byron offers personalized nutritional counselling and coaching in a nonjudgemental, supportive environment. He’ll even take you grocery shopping. *swoon*

Event promotion from Fight Planet

2010-07-25T17:01:00.000-07:00

Fight Planet is your one-stop shop for MMA clothes and other gear, events, media coverage, and news. As Chuck Norris is to awesome, Riccardo from FP is to asskicking. If Ric hasn’t shot it, it didn’t happen. If Ric doesn’t have it, you don’t need it. (And if the all-knowing Linda hasn’t given it her seal of approval, well… it’s like it never existed at all.)

Venue/event sponsor: OAWA

2010-07-25T16:52:00.000-07:00

Wrestlers and grapplers, like chocolate and peanut butter -- two great tastes that go great together.

We are deeply grateful for the kind support of the Ontario Amateur Wrestling Association (OAWA). For the second year in a row they have opened their doors to us, sanctioned our event, given us a wonderful venue, and provided lots of helping hands and support.

The Ontario Amateur Wrestling Association (OAWA) is the Provincial sport governing body in Ontario for all aspects of amateur wrestling, including freestyle, Greco-Roman, women’s wrestling and grappling styles as sanctioned by the International Amateur Body for Wrestling, FILA. FILA is the international member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for wrestling. OAWA is also the provincial affiliate in Ontario of the Canadian Amateur Wrestling Association (CAWA).

You folks are the best!

Hey -- quit grabbing my leg! *thud*

Body work sponsors

2010-07-25T16:46:00.000-07:00

If you’re looking for no-BS fitness training in a fun yet hardcore environment, Bang Fitness (three words: truck tires. Astroturf.) will beat the candy-ass hipster out of you. A private training facility oriented towards sport-specific and functional training, Bang serves both high-level athletes and average folks looking for an alternative to yet another spin class. Bang! Gets! Results!

Feeling tense, baby? How about a back rub? Resident massage therapist and holistic healer Jamie Hewko of Hewko Health will get rid of all your aches and pains... and best of all, he's handing out the good Hewko stuff at the tournament! Bring your back spasms and neck cricks -- he'll sort you out!

Gear sponsors

2010-07-25T16:41:00.000-07:00

If you own a Toraki rashguard you know that it makes you look both sleeker and badder simultaneously. Toraki rashgards are what ninjas in the future would wear. And thanks to the kind people at Toraki, we’re going to have some of that wicked mat fashion to donate.

Big thanks to Egor at Redstar BJJ Fight Gear! The Redstar light gi is especially nice — it fits lean, it’s made from a nice textured weave, and it won’t weigh you down. Plus the logo is totally sweet, and if you wear one of these gis, you get to say “I weel break u,” in a cool Russian accent.

The most awesome thing, though, is that there’ll be a free gi as a tournament prize. So start working your flying armbars, ladies! We wanna see some action!

Food NOM NOM NOM

2010-07-25T10:09:00.000-07:00

Sick of crappy tournament food? Yeah, us too. Cold pizza, warm Gatorade, squashed muffins... yuck. Luckily, chef David Greensmith, who runs Essential Meal Delivery, will be in charge of the GGO kitchen. Essential Meal Delivery is a meal service for folks with gourmet taste buds but muscles that need nutrients and waistlines that might need trimming. Healthy, upscale, and delicious. Three great tastes that go great together!