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| |  | | Home » Yogitoes Big Skidless Yoga Towel (Indigo) | | | | | | | Description: | | SKIDLESS BIG towel is so unique, that it's an absolute yoga necessity. Not only does it prevent slipping on your yoga mat, it stabilizes your practice, it puts a hygienic layer between you and the yoga mat, easy to care for, is quick drying and is perfect for the traveling fitness enthusiast. There is no other product on the market like it. | | | Features: | |
• Extra-large size yoga towel for slip prevention
• 100 percent silicone eco nubs grip the mat or carpet
• Keeps your hands and feet from slipping mid-stretch
• 80/20 polyester-nylon blend is super absorbent
• Machine-washable and dryer-safe; measures 25 x 80 inches
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 12.6 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 3.2 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.44 pounds | | Package Length:
| 13.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 36 reviews |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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16 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 If you sweat or loose grip, must get this towel!Sep 14, 2007
By AshtangaBoy
This yoga towel is the best for Ashtanga and hot yoga. I use it with the Manduka 85" mat & the combination is the best. If you don't break a sweat, then don't bother. If you do, then you cannot live without this towel. Be sure to wash it, the dark towels bleed like crazy. This towel had little nubs on the bottom that make it stick to your mat. It's great. I don't think it's really that pricey considering I use it 3 times a week or more.
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 I'm a sweaty guyJan 28, 2008
By R. Wainwright
I sweat a lot during even a moderate paced Vinyasa set, and this is a much better solution than keeping a hand towel nearby and interrupting yourself every few minutes to attempt to dry off the mat when it doesn't even really make it less slippery. I'd almost say that the more sweat you've got, the better this bad boy works.
A few tips, though:
1) Don't dry it with a dryer sheet since it makes it less absorbent and more slippery.
2) I let the towel hang off the front of my mat about a foot to allow about a foot of bare mat down where my feet are in downward dog. Since my feet don't typically get sweaty enough to slip, I find I have a better grip that way.
3) When starting a Yoga set, it helps to get your hands wet to start since the towel seems to be slipperier than a mat when dry.
I later bought the small towel that Yogitoes also makes which I now use even more often since it can just be placed near the top of your mat where your hands go. But, I like either depending on how hot the session gets.
I agree wholeheartedly with the other reviewers who use it in Bikram Yoga classes. The Yogitoes Big Skidless Yoga Towel is second to none in this capacity.
14 of 15 found the following review helpful:
bigger and better for non-slip yoga practiceJun 02, 2006
By Newbie Yogi
"Adada Baby"
This is the bigger size skidless yoga towel. Good if you want more space like in a crowded class, or if you just need more area because you are bigger in size. Does exactly the same job as the regular skidless: absorbant, non-slip, easy to clean (washer dryer safe), slightly heavier but still light enough to carry around or put in a gym bag. Cons are it is availbe in one color only and is more expensive than the regular size skidless. I have found good price from Amazon for all the skidless towel available but you need to comparison shop all the different sellers as the price can vary over $10.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Yogitoes Versus eQuaOct 08, 2010
By Rob
"rwjrn"
After using the Yogitoes skidless towel for a few months in my Bikram Yoga practice I was pretty happy with it. I bought 3 of them so I wouldn't have to do laundry after every class, and they have held up well to multiple washings. I did have to wash them several times to get the dye to stop bleeding. I have a large Jade Yoga mat and the towel was just about exactly the same size. It does not move around or bunch up like a regular towel. It is reasonably absorbant, but after 90 minutes of hot yoga I have sweatd buckets. For the last 30 minutes of class I am lying on a completely soaked towel that is puddling with moisture. It was reading a review for this product where I first heard about the hot yoga towel from eQua. Amazon sells the regular eQua towels, but I had to go elsewhere to get the hot yoga towels. The eQua towel is larger and thicker than the Yogitoes. It does not have the rubber nubs on the bottom, but I had no problem with the towel staying in place. It is more absorbant than the Yogitoes and I like not having to stick my face on a drenched towel. Both these towels are expensive. The eQua is generally about 10 dollars more, but I will be buying more of those than the yogitoes in the future.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Yogitoes Big Skidless used with Manduka black mat proOct 13, 2009
By el duderino
First of all you must wash this several times SEPARATELY before putting it in the wash with your other clothes. The tag says to do so, but the colors were still bleeding after 3 washings.
I just measured my towel and it is 79", which is 6 inches shorter than my Manduka Black Mat Pro 85" mat. I learned if you don't want to slip off the end of you mat you need to make sure your towel hangs off the back of your mat. The Manduka is very slippery when soaked with sweat, but grippy when dry. The Yogitoes is the exact opposite, slippery when dry and grippy when wet. So you may need to put a few drops of water on your Yogitoes towel where your hands and feet go in down dog before you start your practice so you don't slip off your mat.
I am a very sweaty 6'3" male who does power yoga for 1.5-2 hrs 3-4 days a week. I've learned that I must immediately hang dry my towel in the sun or put it in the wash after a class. I was busy a couple of times after class and didn't wash it till later in the day and my towel developed a moldy type smell that was hard to get rid of, even after repeated washing in warm water. If you don't sweat that much you might not have that problem.
If you sweat as much as I do you could find that the yogitoes towel will become super saturated where you put your hands. Once your towel gets that wet it might move around a bit in down dog, or in lunge positions. For me that is usually toward the end of a class, but it could be a problem for you too if you sweat excessively like me. This is one of the reasons I wouldn't give a 5 star rating.
All that said I would recommend this product if you get sweaty during yoga and are sick of using a beach towel. I purchased the Indigo because it was a less expensive color.
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