Glossary

Chalk alternatives

Other ways to keep a hand on something, when chalk is banned or is the wrong tool.

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Where chalk is banned, the alternatives are a drier hand (towel, wash, antiperspirant used as directed), a better grip position, straps where the gym allows them, or choosing a gym that allows chalk. None of those is liquid chalk.

Pole, aerial, and some racket sports use grip aids that are not chalk. Dry Hands, for example, is sold as a gripping lotion, not as magnesium carbonate. Do not shop for it under a chalk link and expect the same film.

Chalkless Grip Enhancer

Not stated in the November 14 title.

Chalkless calls this a liquid-chalk alternative and a less-mess grip enhancer for lifting, climbing, and other grip sports. It is not sold under a magnesium-carbonate chalk title.

Use it where a gym bans chalk entirely, and do not assume a meet that allows magnesium carbonate has allowed this formula.

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Dry Hands Dry Hands gripping lotion

2 oz

A topical gripping lotion, not a magnesium-carbonate chalk. Pole and aerial dancers use this category when they want less sweat rather than a chalk film.

Do not put it on a bar or a climbing hold as if it were chalk. Ask the studio before it touches a pole.

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