Aikido and Tattoos

Drinking before being tatooed is pretty bad form. It can make you bleed lots depending on how much...
Suck it up and practice breathing...
Relax and keep one point..
REallly...

Jeremy Hulley wrote: D Relax and keep one point.. REallly...

Hey, shouldn't this be in that other thread?

Yes the alcohol can thin out your blood and tend to make you bleed more. Generally tattoo artists will not tattoo you if you are intoxicated. I like to have something in my hands to squeeze when I am being tattooed. Yeah, and breathing does help alot!

-Faith

Both my other tattoos took around 6 hours, thats a long time to hold my breath

yeah the blood gets thin after drinking and I know that the contract you sign before being stuck states no drinking, but in my case and I am no tattoo artist I believe it is my best and most detailed tatt ,also it holds its tone nicely compared to others, it has not been exposed to sun but has been burnt with naked flame and still holds up nice. I will take my hat off to the man who "holds one point" throughout this kind of tatt. Bad form and all I like my tatt and have no shame in saying I needed beer to do it right.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed posting pictures in threads? If not then I'll remove it.
Took painkillers an hour before going but had to come back a few hours later so they wore off. You can really feel it on the ribs too

I have "masagtsu a gatatsu" (fairly sure that the spelling is wrong there ) down the entire length of my right thigh (i kow the kanji is right as was from a buddhist text). No one can see it unless I wear shorts and it helps to remind me of what is important to me. I think these things are important if you get a personal tattoo..... you either want it to look cool for other people (nothing wrong with that) or you want something that means something personal to you. In my case, not many people with my tattoo but I got it as a constant reminder of how to live my life. I have plans for many other tattoos that will be purely decrotive but you i think that you have to be very carefull about where you place them

I've got only one tattoo on my left shoulder. It's fairly high up so it only gets seen if I'm shirtless or wearing a tank top. It's just the word "Clarity" written in my language.

Pic of my yet uncompleted back piece, but here is what I have so far. The symbol in the middle is a version of my name. The seven virtues are around it, the 7th one on my right shoulder is hard to see in this photo. The flowers are Sakura (cherry blossoms). What is missing is the wind/shading effect that will tie it all together.

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And my other one on my belly. Ki. Calligraphy by O'Sensei.

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-Faith

Thats an amazing tattoo. Hope we get to see it when it's done.

Looks good grant! Looks tender too. You know what I said when then needle bounces off the ribs huh! Wecome to the family! Like your work too faith. I would put up my tatts but they are not aikido related and it may be bounced. I will say that I am looking into some horimono/irezumi artists here in Japan to get my next Job, but it is not going to be cheap and the art will be something else (and of course budo related).

Indirectly related....

If you're getting kanji tattoos, make sure the tattoo artist gets them the right way around. Some time ago I saw a young man proudly wearing visible kanji for heaven, earth, fire and water except that they were reversed (as in a mirror image).

Clearly neither the wearer, nor the artist, had any idea.