10th Planet Amsterdam x APEX
Round two with 10th Planet Amsterdam. We made streetwear with head coach Emad Ahmedin and his team a while back, and when he came back for a full competition kit, the brief was different from most of the gym work we do.
Emad does his own graphic design. The kit was already drawn up — logos, layout, colour split, the lion crest, all of it. Our job wasn't to design the kit. Our job was to make sure his design landed right in real fabric, with the right build choices to back it up.
That's a different kind of collab — and honestly one of the more enjoyable kinds, because the client knows exactly what they want. Our job is to be the partner who knows what's possible.
Translating the design. A logo on a screen and a logo on a rashguard are not the same thing. Sublimation behaves differently across panels, around seams, on stretch fabric. Saturation shifts depending on the base colour. Print placement that looks balanced flat on a design file can sit awkwardly on a body in motion.
A lot of the work on this collab was the back-and-forth conversations: where the lion crest sits on the back to print clean, how the orange flank panels run from sleeve to hip without breaking up at the seam, how to scale the front crest so it reads at distance without dominating the chest. Boring on paper, the difference between a kit that looks sharp and one that looks "off but you can't say why" in person.
Material choices, made together. Emad wanted the kit to feel premium — not just look it. We talked through options and landed on these specs:
- The rashguard is built on our heavy 220 GSM polyester/spandex base, with mesh inset panels down the sides where the orange flank runs. Two jobs at once: airflow where you sweat hardest, and a textural shift that gives the kit visual depth instead of looking like one flat colour-blocked print.
- The fightshorts went a step further — a double-layered build. Heavy-duty polyester/spandex outer shell with a modern above-the-knee cut, sewn-in compression liner with our own APEX pattern printed on it and "10TH PLANET AMS." running along the hem. The liner sits a touch longer than the outer, so the text shows below the cut when worn. Subtle, intentional, and the kind of detail that only lands if the build is dialled in.
Premium kit is mostly about choosing where to add complexity and where to keep it simple. The double-layer shorts are the loud move; the rashguard's mesh panels are the quiet one. Together they make a kit that wears like a competition piece.
The same kit you'd buy for yourself. Everything we make for partner gyms uses the same base materials we use for our own Predator Series. Same 220 GSM rashguard, same V2 shorts construction, same anti-slip waistband, same sublimated print process. The design changes per gym. The build doesn't.
About 10th Planet Amsterdam
Headed up by Emad Ahmedin, 10th Planet Amsterdam is the Dutch chapter of the 10th Planet system — Eddie Bravo's no-gi BJJ lineage. Strong technical focus, distinct system, active competition culture. If you're in Amsterdam and want to train no-gi properly, it's the gym to check out.
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The team kit is available through them directly.
Want a kit for your gym?
Whether you're coming with a brief or coming with a full design already drawn up — same process on our end. Get in touch and we'll figure out together which build makes your design land properly.
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