Well Im getting a dragon tattoo on my left arm, and a tiger on the right. Thats why Im dividing the tenants up. So I just wanted to make sure that the break was logical, and didnt mess up the "flow".

@antiher0z,

Looks like somebody already beat you to it. Is this the look you're going for?:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid116818

Lol what do you mean? And that looks REALLY poorly done.

Do you not recognize them? Those are the same characters you asked about at the beginning of this thread. Tattooed down his arm.

Oh yea...someone posted a link to this earlier in the thread. I know its been done before. But nowadays, what hasn't? Lol

At least it's not a Zune tattoo.

JimmySeal Wrote:@antiher0z,

Looks like somebody already beat you to it. Is this the look you're going for?:
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...#pid116818

It just illegible. Those aren't the same characters. There is no balance in the characters. The last two character was invented by either the artist or customer. Antiher0z wouldn't get that.

bodhisamaya Wrote:Despite the take by Penn and Teller

LOL. I watched this. Their conclusion is actually the first thing most martial arts teach you.... and most of the adult martial artists I know study it for the health benefits. I'm guessing the purpose of this episode was to give people something to laugh at.

@zigmonty

Not liking an idea is okay. The 馬鹿外人 comment was a little over the line.

馬鹿外人 is a reference to a person walking into a tattoo shop and picking something off a stencil chart based solely on how it looks and whatever completely incorrect caption it had, without any understanding by that person or the artist.

There are pictures of people who HAVE had that inked, but they could of course be faked or intentional for irony's sake.

Jarvik7 Wrote:馬鹿外人 is a reference to a person walking into a tattoo shop and picking something off a stencil chart based solely on how it looks and whatever completely incorrect caption it had, without any understanding by that person or the artist.

Which is clearly not the case with this topic

Omoishinji Wrote:@Pinkheaven, I really can't make out what the Kanji on his shoulder is. It looks like 俺 （Ore - Japanese for I）, but I assume it is a Chinese Kanji. Do, you know what it is?

Yep is 俺, the kanji style is like handwritten or something like that.

nest0r Wrote:Kanji are visually rich, iconic and cool irrespective of your knowledge of Japanese and its writing system, and I don't think even a partially talented artist needs to ‘know’ the kanji in order to reproduce its appearance from a good sample.

I heard from a tattoo artist who worked in a tattoo shop in Japan that is important for them to know at least some order of the strokes and how to draw it, because make a tattoo is like draw, that makes the tattoo look more real not just like a mark.

antiher0z Wrote:I am recieving alot of good information. I would like to train someday in Japan yes....but thats such a faraway dream, that Im just not too concerned about it at the moment.

I don't know where are you from, but I don't think you need to go to japan, probably you can find some japanese tattoo artist in a "tattoo festival". In my country every year there is this type of festivals and always come tattoo artist from several countries.

pinkyheaven Wrote:

Omoishinji Wrote:@Pinkheaven, I really can't make out what the Kanji on his shoulder is. It looks like 俺 （Ore - Japanese for I）, but I assume it is a Chinese Kanji. Do, you know what it is?

Yep is 俺, the kanji style is like handwritten or something like that.

It is a small mistake. The style that was used doesn't allow a hook for the second stroke. If I had shown that Kanji to a Japanese acquaintance they would be very concerned that I don't understand how to write Kanji. Knowing that the right side of 語, 読, 詩 ... are in Simplified Chinese, is the reason I thought that it might be Chinese. However, it is still cool.

I found this one. It seems pretty well done

http://www.ratemyink.com/?action=ssp&pid=88525

I saw that Penn and Teller episode. It was pretty funny because thats how commercial martial arts has gotten to where these McDojos are so rampant...somethings wrong when a 10 year old has a black belt in my opinion lol

If he trains hard enough for a while , and assuming its only his first dan or something.
I practiced seiteigata iaido for half a year back in The Netherlands, and am currently practicing 英心流 居合道 here in Kyoto, and my sensei initially aimed for me to shoot for my first dan in March, though unfortunately I ended up shortening my stay in Japan till September
Anyways at least for this the first dan or 'black belt' (we dont use belts) is not the end but actually the beginning and the first title you earn (no kyuu grades). My hunch is that most 'McDojo's' actually forget that black belt is only a color and not the end.

But to me, a black belt is no different then a drivers license, or to be of drinking legal age...some things are accomplished not just through hard work...but by turning a certain age. A 10 year old doesnt have the motor skills, nor the comprehension of the consequences of fighting, than an adult.

Anyways, yea Id love to train in Iaido as well as Kendo. I train mostly in MMA and BJJ at the moment.

antiher0z Wrote:But to me, a black belt is no different then a drivers license, or to be of drinking legal age...some things are accomplished not just through hard work...but by turning a certain age. A 10 year old doesnt have the motor skills, nor the comprehension of the consequences of fighting, than an adult.

Anyways, yea Id love to train in Iaido as well as Kendo. I train mostly in MMA and BJJ at the moment.

I started Kendo after a long time in various forms of open-hand martial arts (mostly a traditional Tae Kwon Do, not Olympic style, very similar to the Japanese Karate dojo I joined when I moved to Hokkaido. Also trained a fair amount in Muay Thai, with a smattering of Aikido and Kenpo, and my TKD instructor incorporated some throws and joint locks into our self defense training, having a background in BJJ himself. Oh, and about 9 months of fencing when I was England). I found Kendo very... restrictive. I would have liked freer foot movement, the ability to strike from other angles, etc, etc. I stuck with it for a while as there wasn't anything else really fitting my schedule where I'd been living. There was an Iaido group that met afterward, but the timing didn't work for me. I moved to Hino in April, and have been looking for a place to train since I got here. Looked at a lot fo different places, with two that seemed like good places. Then two weeks ago I found a Kendo Hall on my while biking back home from a day trip to Tama Zoo. I watched the class that was training, and it turned out to be an Iaido class. After watching from the door for about 10 minutes, they invited me in, and even let me try a few practice cuts on the rolled up mats.

I went out with them after the class, and found out that the instructor actually has trained in and teaches a wide range of weapons and styles. They teach very accurate traditional weapon fighting, but the instructor as well as several of the students are involved with NHK, so they also do a bit of the fun, showy, perhaps not as fully funtional but looks great on camera stuff as well, as they perform in the NHK period dramas as Samurai, ninja, or whatever is called for. They also do things for area festivals and events. They made it very clear, though, which stuff was for looking good on camera and the actual techniques. I went back and joined the class last weekend, and will most likely be continuing training with them just about every Sunday.