12-09-2008, 05:53 PM
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#1 | | Member
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| Fencing-related tattoos?
What is it? Where is it? When did you get it? What on earth were you thinking?
If you don't have a fencing-related tattoo, have you ever seen one?
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12-09-2008, 06:15 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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| I'm gonna guess no matter what it is and no matter where it is, it's a fencing tattoo, so probably not that cool.
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12-09-2008, 06:34 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
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| I've often though about getting a tattoo of a sword hilt in my inguinal (lookit up) area. Basically if I've got my shirt off, it'll look like i have a sword in my pants. I've gotten dangerously to getting this done. 
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12-09-2008, 08:37 PM
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| and now, prey tell, for the final tidbit: What on earth were you thinking?
__________________ I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. | |
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12-09-2008, 08:44 PM
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#5 | | Scavenger
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| A small sabre on my shoulderblade, because I'm entitled to it. I've had it for a few years now. I keep forgetting I have it because I can't see it, so when people react it startles me.
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12-09-2008, 09:43 PM
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| One of the coaches at my club has a fleching fencer on his inner arm. It's pretty badass. He lurks here sometimes, maybe he'll show it off. | |
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12-09-2008, 10:21 PM
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| At the start of our sectionals years ago we were getting ready to head to our strips and noticed a guy getting dressed w/ a large, detailed, colored hand-sized tat of his competitive fencing club's insignia on his upper arm. We thought 'wow, a die hard fencer'.
Then he asked us what we were doing putting that weight thingy on the end of our foils. | 
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12-09-2008, 10:30 PM
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| I have a body-cord tattoo running from my wrist, up my arm, down my side, ending in my butt crack.
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12-09-2008, 10:41 PM
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#9 | | Fencing Expert
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| I know someone who had an artist friend custom design a tattoo for her.
He later decided he liked the design so much that he converted it into the logo for the club where he coached at the time.
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12-09-2008, 10:53 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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| Well, if we're talking fencing-related, a friend of mine has the Olympic rings on his shoulder blade, which he got after competing in the modern pentathlon event - not quite the same, but close enough for me. | |
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12-09-2008, 11:43 PM
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| I know a guy who has a rapier tatooed on his arm, with the words "in ferro veritas" around it. It's pretty awesome.
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12-10-2008, 12:23 AM
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| Strongly considering getting the following on weapon shoulder: Strain-Stress curve (an engineering chart that shows the amount of stretching a material undergoes, one of steel would look parabolic at an angle much like a foil that has just bent from impact) with a foil grip at the intersection of the graph so that it overlays the output of the graph with the bent foil blade. The culmination of 4 years of spending all of my time on fencing rather than on schoolwork and one very boring finite element analysis class.
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12-10-2008, 12:47 AM
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| Ahh, I have my finite final on Monday.
Hardest math class evAR!
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12-10-2008, 01:10 AM
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| Freewind is the most heavily tattooed fencer anyone on this board has ever met....but he had no fencing-related tats last I knew. | |
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12-10-2008, 02:15 PM
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12-10-2008, 02:34 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
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| I knew a guy who had a somewhat common chinese style dragon on his arm, but it was holding a saber!!
My impression was that he later regretted getting the tattoo, and I don't even know if he continued fencing beyond a couple of years...
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12-10-2008, 03:37 PM
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| Quote:
Originally Posted by KShan5[PrFC]  I'm gonna guess no matter what it is and no matter where it is, it's a fencing tattoo, so probably not that cool. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Nolano I know a guy who has a rapier tatooed on his arm, with the words "in ferro veritas" around it. It's pretty awesome. | No tattoo is either "cool" or "awesome". I'll grant you sad, but no more! 
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12-10-2008, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Inquartata No tattoo is either "cool" or "awesome". I'll grant you sad, but no more! | I happen to like mine a lot...'course, it's a memorial tat to one of my cats, but it DID provide a last bit of healing....12 years after she died.
Mine -- she's the M in H.O.M. (stands for Home of Mischief) 
My wife's....fairly awesome if I do say so! 
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12-10-2008, 05:32 PM
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| I will NOT quote Mencken,
I will NOT quote Mencken,
I will NOT quote Mencken... 
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