About

American born Emre Bardakci grew up in Turkey training in various martial arts including Judo, Wrestling and Sambo. In Antalya Turkey Emre was exposed to many grappling styles along with athletes from several Eastern European countries and developed a phenomenal experience in martial arts and Eastern European strength training methods. Due to his passion in human movement Emre obtained an undergraduate and graduate degree Biomedical Engineering focusing on Biomechanics at the Catholic University of America in 2008. Emre realized the importance of grip strength and grip endurance for martial arts and developed Gripedo but also soon realized it to be a useful tool for athletes from several different backgrounds all around to globe. Emre’s goal and purpose is to empower humans to be stronger with all his products.