MA & body piercings

Will

Just curious what the deal is with body piercings and MA?
I will hopefully be doing some form of MA in the next month. Common sense tells me that i should remove em when sparring.
Would i be able to leave em in during training or will it depend on who is running the place?
Anyone here have a similar problem?

smacl

Take 'em all out rather than have them ripped out, rubbed out, or impacted deeper into places where they're not supposed to go!

easyontheeye

up to you..but accidents can happen! better safe than sorry

Baggio...

I had a couple ripped out of my ears many moons ago, and it's a pain in the arse. If your using surgical steel piercings then they will do you a fair bit of damage if they get pulled out.

I leave my earings and tongue stud in (too much hassle getting the fookers out) - not that I'm doing MMA to be fair. But my septum is always taken out - no matter what - I really don't want to look like that dumb chick from Eastenders:D

If you are doing all that grappling lark take everything out. The tongue might be cool if you have a gum shield.



Somtimes I peel my tattoos off before training.

Roper

Wilburt wrote:

Common sense tells me that i should remove em when sparring.

Common sense once again triumphs! Depends on the sparring I suppose but its a bad idea generally to have anything that can catch, snag, rip etc..

Im2Lazy

I have my tongue pierced & never had any problems leaving that in but it's not very like'll to get caught when I'm rolling compared to a nipple or eyebrow piercing.

I'd say you should remove any body piercings because they will be ripped out......:eek:

Will

No one is gonna get your tongue in a grapple though unless its a girl maybe, yeah might just plasters of the more sensitive ones so they cant be caught so easily. Ears will be taken out.
Anywho thanks for the replies, much appreciated