Our Story

We are a production company that has been making apparel in the US for over 13 years now in many different markets, including rashguards for Jiu Jitsu and MMA. We decided to make our own brand and sell directly to our customers, cut out the middleman, and become a part of the Jiu Jitsu community. While our direct-to-consumer brand is new, we bring an expert level of manufacturing ability to making a quality product here in the US, not shopping the work out overseas. 

Over our years as a custom manufacturer, we've seen countless brands go broke trying to make their products cheaper and cheaper so they can afford to bid on the high cost of monopolized social media advertising. We're going to play a different game and rely completely on word-of-mouth marketing. We're going to reward customers generously for telling their friends about us, because we will not be spending our customers money paying for importing products from overseas and a barrage of ads. 

We are dedicated to making a product whose quality is unparalleled, customer service unrivaled, and our ethos will be that of doing the hard work ourselves. You wouldn't trust a professor that didn't train, why buy your training gear from a company that has no idea how to make gear and just entrusts their production to some sweatshop overseas?

Our founder, David, trained Jiu Jitsu for the first time in 2003 and despite many breaks from training over the years, has many years of Jiu Jitsu experience and understands what is required to make a truly great rashguard. We're so confident we've made a rashguard that can stand comparison with any other, that we are offering our rashguards with a 30 day love-it-or-money-back guarantee. We hope you will give one a try.

Why the name "Rolling Otter?" An otter may not be the first animal to come to mind when you think of Jiu Jitsu, but we believe the otter is the perfect mascot for our brand. It lacks the cliched apex predator metaphor, but it's still an animal that means business. They're crafty, playful, inventive, sociable, but still fierce when it matters. Everything a great Jiu Jitsu player should be.

Thanks for stopping by!

-David & Crew at Rolling Otter Wear. 

Our Founder, David Whitehurst, rolling in his home gym: the Jiu Jitsu Co. in Old City, Philadelphia

 

Interested in seeing some of our company's other projects? 

We also run an outdoor gear company called: High Tail Designs and a yoga mat company called Metta Mats