The first guy is Frank Mir, so the tattoo on his back says "Mir", not "Mr". He WAS champion TWICE, but lost his first belt after a motorcycle accident put him out of action for a while, and nearly ended his career until his resurgence years later (after everyone had counted him out). The tattoo on his arm is a reflection of the fact that he did not lose his belt while in the cage, and thus, was still champion despite not wearing it.
At this point IF I were to get a Japanese tattoo, I'd probably just have it say "Why are you reading this?". Japanese will laugh and non Japanese will still think it's cool just because it's fancy characters.
@@KarateDojowaKu Jon Jones, The guy who's signs didn't make sense (UFC fighter) always lists himself as a "Look see do" fighter, as in Look, see, do. Basically doing anything he sees and thinks will work. Could it be that he tried to have that worded in Japanese?
That’s actually really neat, then hanja is takes from the name of the parent style. but it makes me wonder why they didn’t just have it written in hangul.
i mean hanja have more historical significance i suppose, it's not only being able to read the name, but the ideograms also carry their meaning in how they look op was able to understand it, anyone who may be able to read hanzi/kanji/hanja may be able to understand it also, since tattooing han characters already is so popular in US culture, it might look a bit more normal rather than having hangul written on you
@@low-fatmilklove1187 Korean and Japanese originally uses Chinese for formal writings and documentations for hundreds of years similar to how Europeans uses Latin, ie Latin on US currencies and monuments. It's considered more high brow.
Lmao “I love the avengers too” That’s not the avengers logo, it’s the logo for anarchy which is a political or philosophical belief that we ought to dismantle hierarchy.
its not that it doesn't make sense, it's quite juvenile or at least very prose style of phrasing in both japanese and chinese. Literal translation would be "Strong Type Combat Squad"
2:45 Fun facts :When I see "唐手道" tattoo this words. Actually I think about one kind of Korean martial arts that also called "tang soo do". Literally means "Karate/Tang hand way". It is literally means "Korean Karate". Also one most important martial arts for Chuck Norries.
No, it means "Tang (or China) Hand Way", not "Korean Karate. Technically, yes the first two hanja does mean "kara (Tang or China) te (hand)" , but not "Korean".
The person around 3:25 with old Karate and Do together might be a practitioner of Tang Su Do (당수도) which is essentially Korean Karste and they write it like this with the old way of writing karate and do, and translate it as way of China (tang) hand.
The guy with the small chest tattoo of Ju-Jutsu is Georges St-Pierre, French-Canadian UFC champion you might recognize as the actor playing Batroc The Leaper in Captain America ; The Winter Soldier.
My wife knew how to read Chinese and Japanese. We'd see people walking around with these tats and I'd ask her what did it say. It seems a lot of people have these characters on their bodies and don't realize that it says complete nonsense.
My dad in the 90's after the collapse of the soviet union saw a shirt that said "Сир на мире" instead of "Мир на мире." It was supposed to say "peace on earth" but actually said "cheese on earth"
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I'm not. By the time he joined the UFC he was mainly almost always a wrestler jiu-jitsu fighter. Then he started schooling slower fighters with his striking then eventually got ko'd and went back to using jiu-jitsu and wrestling.
Jujutsu is the original Japanese martial art before it was split into multiple descendant artforms. So, the tattoo means that he's studied everything, which, is true. 'Brazilian jiu-jitsu' just means that it's a Brazilian artform/system, not that it's actually 'jujutsu'.
The reason for Frank Mir to have "a champion without a title," is because he won the UFC heavyweight title, then was in a very bad motorcycle crash, and had to be stripped of the title. He did come back to win in again, but it was a very long recovery and journey back, several years.
6:30 the two Chinese characters on Jon Jones are the initials of his sister, who died of cancer when she was young of brain cancer before she turned 18. Carmen Jones. Also, the guy at 4:42 is GSP. Both GSP and Jon Jones are indisputably in the top 5 greatest fighters of all time in MMA. GSP might actually make a great video idea since he's a karate practitioner who did amazing in MMA. He also incorporates jiu jitsu and wrestling however, and became one of the greatest wrestlers in MMA despite not wrestling in high school. Jon Jones is kind of the opposite. He started out as a wrestler, but because he had such amazing takedown defense from wrestling, he became one of the best at using traditional techniques like side kicks, and I can't remember who, but he outkicked a couple karate fighters and taekwondo fighters because he wasn't afraid of being taken down while his opponent, knowing Jon's wrestling background, was. Great video!
Love that you made a video out of this. I want to get a new black belt with "aim for character perfection" embroidered on it, inspired by the following quote from Shotokan Master Gichin Funakoshi. "The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants." However, I don't fully trust google translate and watching this made me continue to question it. Thanks for sharing!
Really funny when people go into tattoo shops and get the wrong kanji permanently on their backs. i.e. they ask for some cool meaning like heaven and they get the word poop instead
Avengers: Fighting against corrupt Governments. Anarchy: Fighting against corrupt Governments. I see the confusion and similarities between the symbol perceived.
4:00 - Jeff Monson, fought in the UFC in the early and mid 2000's, then for another decade in much smaller promotions. 4:41 - Georges St.-Pierre (mostly known as GSP), a French Canadian welterweight who fought (and was the champ) in the UFC and is considered the greatest welterweight of all time, and by many - the greatest fighter of all time. His style was mostly wrestling, and he incorporated some (but not too much) BJJ in his style. Retired in 2018. 6:15 - Jon "Bones" Jones, the legendary champ of the Light Heavyweight division of the UFC. Generally considered the greatest LHW of all time and is the major competition for GSP for the title of greatest MMA fighter of all time. Still signed to the UFC, but is moving up to the heavyweight division. 6:55 - Stipe Miocic, a Croatian-American heavyweight. Current champ of the HW division in the UFC, and is the most accomplished fighter in the history of that division. Seems like some of the best fighters on the planet have terrible Japanese tattoos.
When you get a tattoo in a language other than your own, make sure to take the context into account as well. Some correct words might be strung together to make a sentence, but it might either make no sense or have totally different meaning than what you want. Especially when you use Google translation as your guide!
Nice video! First time watching but I will subscribe. As for myself I have Tae Kwon Do in Korean on my arm and a Filipino letter for the martial art Pekiti Tirsia Kali.
GSPs tattoo doesn't contain any characters unique to Japanese though. Both the characters 柔 and 術 appear in traditional Chinese and have the same meaning and spelling.
I'm going to be honest. I wanted to tattoo myself with Japanese thematic. Specially the principles of Judo. But now I reconsidered it and may not do it because it may be awkward when I actually go to train in japan. Would be too weird to tattoo myself to honor people who generally don't like tattoos?
The Japanese don't generally like tattoos? The yakuza's are covered from head to toe sets them apart sort of like a social filter which at one time tattoos were but now they become redundant, to each his own
I have 4 Chinese characters on a scroll on my arm. The characters by themselves were originally an impulse tattoo and for over a decade, I had no idea what they meant. When a Chinese girl asked to see all of it at my job, she said she couldn't fully translate it. She face-timed her mom and woke her up in China... Translation: "I dance 1,000 times on my bad luck." Fitting, because I'm a 46 year old B-Boy with the worst luck/best attitude you'll ever see. This is a really cool video. I like your style. Subscribed.
@@giampaolomannucci8281 , I had no idea what they meant because the pattern said, "Accomplish everything without fear", but I kept getting loose translations at Chinese restaurants over the last 20 years. A girl stood me up on Valentine's Day, so I got a tattoo. When I got home, she was waiting for me.
@@giampaolomannucci8281 , way to talk out of line to a complete stranger, by the way. There was a time I would have driven 1,000 miles to see if you would call me stupid to my face. I'm at peace now. Be thankful for that. Please change your tone with people.
@@giampaolomannucci8281 , have a splendid day trolling strangers. Just know that sometimes real life will filter through the security that is your keyboard.
The UFC fighter at 4:50 is Georges St Pierre. His striking discipline is Kyokushin Karate and he is fully in the debate of being the greatest mma fighter of all time
@@yela7335they may not, but personally I have always seen them alluring until they are extremely common and growing more and more stupid in content... opinions are personal..
I'm a Chinese and English speaker who's been studying Japanese for a while. As far as I know, 安術 (安术 in Simplified Chinese characters) doesn't exist in Chinese either. I mean, I think that in either language, we might be able to interpret the phrase as meaning something like 'calming/peace-bringing technique' based on the kanji, so it could perhaps be used to name something, but it's definitely not a word with an actual everyday meaning. それはさておき、色々な興味深いビデオを作ってくれて、ありがとうございます。登録しました！
Hello my friends this is ME Wilson SR! I want to thank you for sharing your knowledge about kanji and the writing it was very very good very very informative I'll be looking forward to the very next video that you send thank you so much!!
4:25 , the grass on top part of 1st char (ying) is correct in traditional font chinese, it's often written like that with the grass being 4 strokes as that one has. Down, across, then down across.
If you ever want to have a Japanese text as a tattoo. You should have at least two Japanese friends rather than Google translating it. Or maybe post about on Reddit or something.
I don't have any Tattoos. It's not a Rebel thing anymore. Everyone and their Grandma has them now. When I was in my early teens and at the Karate School, talking with other students and our Sensei. In comes an older student of nineteen or twenty years old. Smiling broadly and all excited because he got a Tattoo on his forearm. It was one of those Skull Tattoos with a Knife going down through the Skull. He was showing it off to all of us that were there. Sensei was not impressed. He said to this student. "Now you are a marked man for life." The smile got wiped away and I could see the student now questioning in his own mind, if this had been a good idea.
@@violent_bebop9687 Ha Ha Ha, Your post got me to thinking. I can't imagine what some old, wrinkled codger is going to look like, with their body covered in Tattoos, that are so distorted by the wrinkles, brown age spots and hair growth, where there was no hair years earlier. Not only will the Tattoos be faded, make no sense and be unidentifiable, they will probably look gross. That's what it's going to look like as those people age, shrivel and shrink, lose their muscle mass and start sagging everywhere.
First guy was Frank Mir, the Samurai symbol was not trying to say Mr Samurai it is MIR on his back like a sports jersey or something, his "champion without a title" is odd because he was a UFC champion at one point. 3rd guy is Jeff Monson I think, pretty wild guy. 4th guy is George St Pierre, one of the best MMA competitors of all time. The last guy is the current UFC heavyweight champion (I think) Stipe Miocic. His tattoo might be referring to his team/gym but he is also (or was) a firefighter so maybe it is that? I don't know, kind of funny to think of him as a Pokemon type though, lol!
Only in America do we throw around traditions that are not ours, out of context. ( arrogantly ) We even declare some foods as foreign. Like French fries or French toast. German chocolate cake. Ect ect... Then you have tattoos. With a language you cant read. Which translates to chicken sandwich for all you know.
Guy in our gym believed his tat said "Freedom and Honor"....Chinese guy says, "it says "Dumpling Sauce." We all call him Dumplin' now.
There would be a serious assault on the horizon for the tattoo artist
Very usual when your made in china. They do batshit crazy things. Not recomended. Pretty common is chicken soup, stupid kid, tourist and so on.
@@janosvarga962 "tourist" hahahah I hope someone who doesn't speak English gets that as a tattoo and shows me
Iron dragon usually is fried chicken with bamboo
0:28 Frank Mir
4:03 Jeff Monson
4:42 GSP
6:15 Jon Jones
6:55 Stipe Miocic
LoL, gsp got 7/10 a legend
@@violent_bebop9687 he got 6:)
Thanks, thought that was Monson too
Awesome i couldn't remember jeff monsons name, well played sir
Mr. Samurai isn't that bad a nickname for Mir though.
The first guy is Frank Mir, so the tattoo on his back says "Mir", not "Mr". He WAS champion TWICE, but lost his first belt after a motorcycle accident put him out of action for a while, and nearly ended his career until his resurgence years later (after everyone had counted him out). The tattoo on his arm is a reflection of the fact that he did not lose his belt while in the cage, and thus, was still champion despite not wearing it.
beat me too it. nice call
gr8 info tbh
Gj !
Did you see when his pallet was broken in a recent fight. Imagine breaking your mouth
Frank Mir also used "unconditional love" to break arms when his opponents refused to tap💪
Great answer
It's teach never judge someone until you know the full story
9/10 for his tattoo for me
“i love avengers too” isnt that red thing the symbol of anarchy 💀
Yeah
lol
I think he was joking
Probably the best comment of the whole video
He never said he's an expert on not-Japanese symbols.
At this point IF I were to get a Japanese tattoo, I'd probably just have it say "Why are you reading this?".
Japanese will laugh and non Japanese will still think it's cool just because it's fancy characters.
Lol you made my day
@@KarateDojowaKu Jon Jones, The guy who's signs didn't make sense (UFC fighter) always lists himself as a "Look see do" fighter, as in Look, see, do. Basically doing anything he sees and thinks will work. Could it be that he tried to have that worded in Japanese?
@@wobbe6624 After fighting Jones theres not much ''seeing'' to be done!
I'd just get "random kanji", or "stupid round eye".
Or maybe both. Except spelled wrong.
@@m.b.82 Get 超深い何か and tell people it means something super deep...
Or ピーナッツバターとゼリーの時間 (peanut butter jelly time)
That fighter with the 'jiujitsu' tattoo is Georges St. Pierre, he's a Kyokushin and Brazilian Jiujitsu blackbelt. Very well rounded fighter.
Greatest mma fighter of all time.
5:34
Applauses: ✅
Screen: 1/10
Word that comes out of mout: 10
Confusion: 100
Hotel trivago
I woulda given it a 1/10 too
Irony that video judging writing has incorrect writing A+ or F
dood said "i love avengers too" lol
oh my sweet summer child
😂 awe come on. Go easy on him. He seems like a kind soul.
2:46 That's how "Tang Soo Do" is written in hanja/kanji, so he's most likely a Tang Soo Do stylist.
Tang = 唐
Soo = 手
Do = 道
Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best
That’s actually really neat, then hanja is takes from the name of the parent style. but it makes me wonder why they didn’t just have it written in hangul.
i mean hanja have more historical significance i suppose, it's not only being able to read the name, but the ideograms also carry their meaning in how they look
op was able to understand it, anyone who may be able to read hanzi/kanji/hanja may be able to understand it
also, since tattooing han characters already is so popular in US culture, it might look a bit more normal rather than having hangul written on you
Good catch and explanation
@@low-fatmilklove1187 Korean and Japanese originally uses Chinese for formal writings and documentations for hundreds of years similar to how Europeans uses Latin, ie Latin on US currencies and monuments. It's considered more high brow.
I don't think the A is the Avengers sign
Oh haha
Anarchy my friends
@@KarateDojowaKu lol so innocent
@@KarateDojowaKu yep, that's an anarchy symbol. :)
@@DeathWithinTenSteps was that Jeff Monson?
the last one (Stipe "Immigrant Mentality" Miocic)'s back tatoo is chinese and is just referring to his gym
Ahh I see!
@@KarateDojowaKu The gym is named "strong-style"
Thank you
Lmao “I love the avengers too”
That’s not the avengers logo, it’s the logo for anarchy which is a political or philosophical belief that we ought to dismantle hierarchy.
Thanks for the info!
Basically if you get that tattoo then its like broadcasting to the world you are a huge d-bag
Avengers would have been better
@@hotlanta35 what makes you a d-bag for believing in Anarchy ?
Stipe's gym in Cleveland is named "Strong Style" so this makes perfect sense...
He’s also a firefighter
@@austinmartinez517 Fighterfighter-Japanese, not best Japanese.
its not that it doesn't make sense, it's quite juvenile or at least very prose style of phrasing in both japanese and chinese. Literal translation would be "Strong Type Combat Squad"
@@TheJadedSkeptic my guess would be he was trying to say "Strong Style Fight Team"
@@NWDB not the best translation. 強力型 doesn't make any sense in Mandarin. A better translation I could think of is 強勢. 戰鬥隊 also. 戰隊 is much better.
2:45
Fun facts :When I see "唐手道" tattoo this words. Actually I think about one kind of Korean martial arts that also called "tang soo do". Literally means "Karate/Tang hand way". It is literally means "Korean Karate". Also one most important martial arts for Chuck Norries.
No, it means "Tang (or China) Hand Way", not "Korean Karate. Technically, yes the first two hanja does mean "kara (Tang or China) te (hand)" , but not "Korean".
@@barrettokarate well yeah. "Tang" is meaning China destiny. But I actually mean this:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_Soo_Do
@@barrettokarate tang soo do is clearly the Korean pronunciation and word. Pay attention.
The person around 3:25 with old Karate and Do together might be a practitioner of Tang Su Do (당수도) which is essentially Korean Karste and they write it like this with the old way of writing karate and do, and translate it as way of China (tang) hand.
The guy with the small chest tattoo of Ju-Jutsu is Georges St-Pierre, French-Canadian UFC champion you might recognize as the actor playing Batroc The Leaper in Captain America ; The Winter Soldier.
*LOL I would get the Mr. Sparkle logo which is a joint-venture: Matsumura Fishworks and Tamaribuchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern!*
Ok fish bulb.
Thats not the Avengers "A" that I believe is the Anarchy "A". Just a thought. but I love how clean and clinical your assessment is Sensei.
"A" on the back of Jeff "SnowMan" Monson is Anarchy
My wife knew how to read Chinese and Japanese. We'd see people walking around with these tats and I'd ask her what did it say. It seems a lot of people have these characters on their bodies and don't realize that it says complete nonsense.
It's like the Japanese t-shirts that have English
@@williampropst9447 "Engrish"
@@williampropst9447 It's worse... at least the Engrish tees don't have bad handwriting or font styles.
Lol
My dad in the 90's after the collapse of the soviet union saw a shirt that said "Сир на мире" instead of "Мир на мире." It was supposed to say "peace on earth" but actually said "cheese on earth"
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What about 'Warrior'? 😅
Japanese word for Moomins :)
I would get a tattoo of the word shadow
Karate do and the karate style
Cheetah.
I really enjoyed this video and I hope that you do more.
I'm going to label my limbs with tattoos. ie: left arm, right arm
GSP got 6 on his tats. btw his one of ths best to ever enter in the octagon
Who is going to be the one to tell him? 😆
I’m surprised GSP has “Jiu jitsu” on his chest considering he’s originally a Kyokushin Practicioner
I'm not. By the time he joined the UFC he was mainly almost always a wrestler jiu-jitsu fighter. Then he started schooling slower fighters with his striking then eventually got ko'd and went back to using jiu-jitsu and wrestling.
Jujutsu is the original Japanese martial art before it was split into multiple descendant artforms. So, the tattoo means that he's studied everything, which, is true. 'Brazilian jiu-jitsu' just means that it's a Brazilian artform/system, not that it's actually 'jujutsu'.
The reason for Frank Mir to have "a champion without a title," is because he won the UFC heavyweight title, then was in a very bad motorcycle crash, and had to be stripped of the title. He did come back to win in again, but it was a very long recovery and journey back, several years.
"Eternal dumpling power-puncher." The classic.
Well presented video topic & your explanations are very understandable
You should do this for your viewers, have them send in their art work to you.
This was fun. Thank you!
6:30 the two Chinese characters on Jon Jones are the initials of his sister, who died of cancer when she was young of brain cancer before she turned 18. Carmen Jones.
Also, the guy at 4:42 is GSP. Both GSP and Jon Jones are indisputably in the top 5 greatest fighters of all time in MMA. GSP might actually make a great video idea since he's a karate practitioner who did amazing in MMA. He also incorporates jiu jitsu and wrestling however, and became one of the greatest wrestlers in MMA despite not wrestling in high school. Jon Jones is kind of the opposite. He started out as a wrestler, but because he had such amazing takedown defense from wrestling, he became one of the best at using traditional techniques like side kicks, and I can't remember who, but he outkicked a couple karate fighters and taekwondo fighters because he wasn't afraid of being taken down while his opponent, knowing Jon's wrestling background, was. Great video!
That's not how kanji works. You can't use it as "initials from English." It's meaningless babble.
@@iatsd it’s chinese
@@ryanliu6694 That's not how Chinese works. It's meaningless babble
@@iatsd bro... do you know how it works?
GSP forever , forever GSP
“Mr Samurai” that’s Frank Mir, and that his last name on his back, lol
In case he forgets...
(My buddy did the same, and we made the same joke.)
Your photo in the thumbnail is hilarious! 😂😂 Enjoyed this video, sensei. Keep going!
"I would give this a 10/10"
*Shows 1/10* Lol
Great stuff sir.
5:34 "I would give this a 10", writes 1/10 lol. Loved the video.
Great videos! I really like them.
The circled A means anarchy. There's also a hissing black cat there, which is also an anarchist symbol
Can confirm :)
Also, your username is awesome; nice to see another Skallagrim fan
A bunch of the other tattoos are Communist and Anarchist in origin. That fighter's very politically charged.
@@Horus-Lupercal yeah, I think that is Mar Khunt. Not sure on the spelling but I think it fits.
Edit: Nevermind, it's Jeff Monson.
@@rr3102
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Love that you made a video out of this. I want to get a new black belt with "aim for character perfection" embroidered on it, inspired by the following quote from Shotokan Master Gichin Funakoshi. "The ultimate aim of Karate lies not in victory or defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants." However, I don't fully trust google translate and watching this made me continue to question it. Thanks for sharing!
4:46 GSP (George St-Pierre) the goat.
1:51 he was so kind, he knew four was right on the tongue! He held onto it
Really funny when people go into tattoo shops and get the wrong kanji permanently on their backs.
i.e. they ask for some cool meaning like heaven and they get the word poop instead
LOL
"a champion with no title" pretty apt description of frank Mir career
Lol
Avengers: Fighting against corrupt Governments.
Anarchy: Fighting against corrupt Governments.
I see the confusion and similarities between the symbol perceived.
Anarchy: Fighting against any Governments.
As a jazz artist, I love the music you chose 🎶 for this video 📹
Thank you for sharing your insights!
Here's some from me 😂: the A with the circle written that way referes to anarchy.
Thank you very much!
You karate forced me into subscribing...haha
Love the honesty.
“Next moving onto this UFC fighter. I’m pretty sure he’s famous.”
the first one when you said 'Mr samurai' the word Mr is actually 'Mir' as thats his last name
Awesome video
"I can't read this language" - In whichever language is the fancy on the day.
Best series ever I love how you are showing us the mistakes and mess up things the tattoo artists did to these MMA guys lmao
First UFC Fighter is Jeff Monson. The second is George St Pierre. The third is Jon Jones. Last one is Stipe Miocic.
First is Frank Mir.
@@cmcarlile yeah true i just forgot to mention him
Thank you for the very interesting video
If one of the greatest heavyweight fighters wants a tattoo that describes him as a pokemon I'm alright with that and everyone else should to
Dumb
maybe the powerful squad is refrring to the fact that he is also a volunteer firefighter
Stipe's gym in Cleveland is named "Strong Style" so this makes perfect sense...
Bullshit quote. Are you the squad with the tattoo? Lmao.
@@superbean8110 Doubt it very much.
04:19 "i love avengers too"
lmao this had me cracking up.
Thats the symbol for Anarchy..lol
Maybe Jon Jones one mean "I am on juice"😂
LOL
An jutsu=On juice
Sounds about right.
4:00 - Jeff Monson, fought in the UFC in the early and mid 2000's, then for another decade in much smaller promotions.
4:41 - Georges St.-Pierre (mostly known as GSP), a French Canadian welterweight who fought (and was the champ) in the UFC and is considered the greatest welterweight of all time, and by many - the greatest fighter of all time. His style was mostly wrestling, and he incorporated some (but not too much) BJJ in his style. Retired in 2018.
6:15 - Jon "Bones" Jones, the legendary champ of the Light Heavyweight division of the UFC. Generally considered the greatest LHW of all time and is the major competition for GSP for the title of greatest MMA fighter of all time. Still signed to the UFC, but is moving up to the heavyweight division.
6:55 - Stipe Miocic, a Croatian-American heavyweight. Current champ of the HW division in the UFC, and is the most accomplished fighter in the history of that division.
Seems like some of the best fighters on the planet have terrible Japanese tattoos.
WOW thanks so much for the information!!!
@@KarateDojowaKu You're welcome. Stipe has actually spoken about his tattoo and said it's supposed to say "strength-style family".
4:04 The fighter is Jeff Monson.
I’ve actually got to get the misspent youth tattoos on my left arm redone. I’m more than likely going to do an isshinryu tribute sleeve
"i love avengers too" 👀😂😂😂
The Avengers comment had me dying lol 😂 😂😂
4:20
Yeah uhhh... That is NOT the Avengers symbol. That "A" is for "ANARCHY!".
This my first time, thank you.
Anyone wanna tell him that’s not the avengers logo 😂😂
I thought he maybe used sarcasm but wasn't sure :))
That guy is a legend in MMA 😃
Karate in Chinese is actually written/mentioned as “空手道”, you’ll never see it only written “空手”
Nailed it.
The last character is “do” which means way. If it’s the first 2 character then it just means empty hand.
If the literal meaning is being used then you can see it.
空手無先手
I love this
漢字がかっこいい文化だと思ってくださってるのは嬉しいんですけどね…
なぜかどれも字体が若干崩れていますね😭
動画では結構辛口でしたけど、真似してくれるだけ嬉しいですよね！
Smarty pants 😆
yusuke: I will give this a 10!
Editor: Too bad, cuz i'm givin it a 1!
04:19 I love Avengers too ... haha.
I like this video!! Man hes so polite haha
When you get a tattoo in a language other than your own, make sure to take the context into account as well. Some correct words might be strung together to make a sentence, but it might either make no sense or have totally different meaning than what you want. Especially when you use Google translation as your guide!
I want to tattoo on my chest "chiken soup" ans on the back "yes, i intentionally tattoed chiken soup on my chest"
Yeah, people forget syntax is completely different in other languages .
Nice video! First time watching but I will subscribe. As for myself I have Tae Kwon Do in Korean on my arm and a Filipino letter for the martial art Pekiti Tirsia Kali.
5:34 "i would give this a 10.." procede with give it a 1
when i watched this i finally understand anarchy is avengers symbol . thank you for opening my eyes
Jon jones just got a zero. Because his tattoo is in Pinyin Mandarin
At Least Georges St. Pierre's tattoo is indeed kanji japanese.
GSPs tattoo doesn't contain any characters unique to Japanese though.
Both the characters 柔 and 術 appear in traditional Chinese and have the same meaning and spelling.
@@kenjisasuke7705 well okay
Great Videeo bro
I was hoping they said something like, "Slippery when wet," or something totally different then what they thought it said. :p
I lost it at him confusing the anarchist symbol with avengers.
I'm going to be honest. I wanted to tattoo myself with Japanese thematic. Specially the principles of Judo. But now I reconsidered it and may not do it because it may be awkward when I actually go to train in japan.
Would be too weird to tattoo myself to honor people who generally don't like tattoos?
The Japanese don't generally like tattoos? The yakuza's are covered from head to toe sets them apart sort of like a social filter which at one time tattoos were but now they become redundant, to each his own
@@sonychiba4733 yes, and the yakuza are not people to look up to. they are the reason tattoos are frowned upon.
You are looking like *Ryuzaki* (death note) in this hair style. Love from India 🙏.
I have 4 Chinese characters on a scroll on my arm. The characters by themselves were originally an impulse tattoo and for over a decade, I had no idea what they meant.
When a Chinese girl asked to see all of it at my job, she said she couldn't fully translate it. She face-timed her mom and woke her up in China...
Translation: "I dance 1,000 times on my bad luck." Fitting, because I'm a 46 year old B-Boy with the worst luck/best attitude you'll ever see.
This is a really cool video. I like your style. Subscribed.
got lucky, how can you be so stupid to put something permanent on your skin without knowing its meaning?
@@giampaolomannucci8281 , I had no idea what they meant because the pattern said, "Accomplish everything without fear", but I kept getting loose translations at Chinese restaurants over the last 20 years.
A girl stood me up on Valentine's Day, so I got a tattoo. When I got home, she was waiting for me.
@@giampaolomannucci8281 , way to talk out of line to a complete stranger, by the way. There was a time I would have driven 1,000 miles to see if you would call me stupid to my face.
I'm at peace now. Be thankful for that. Please change your tone with people.
@@TheDwightMamba ahahahah yeah, I'm really really REALLY thankful for that
@@giampaolomannucci8281 , have a splendid day trolling strangers. Just know that sometimes real life will filter through the security that is your keyboard.
GSP is a Karate man! Cmon. I can see not knowing who Jeff Munson is as he was probably before this dudes time but GSP. That’s a real martial artist.
Do people in Japan have the American words “eternal discipline”? Lol
Japanese uses a lot of loan words which they write using katakana, roughly imitating the sound .
The UFC fighter at 4:50 is Georges St Pierre. His striking discipline is Kyokushin Karate and he is fully in the debate of being the greatest mma fighter of all time
With also the lowest scoring kanji 7/10, lol, still the best
Since everyone and their family abuse tattoos, they are not cool anymore... the outstanding thing now a days is not to have one...
As it has always been,lol.
they're not supposed to be ''cool'' though
@@yela7335they may not, but personally I have always seen them alluring until they are extremely common and growing more and more stupid in content... opinions are personal..
I'm a Chinese and English speaker who's been studying Japanese for a while. As far as I know, 安術 (安术 in Simplified Chinese characters) doesn't exist in Chinese either. I mean, I think that in either language, we might be able to interpret the phrase as meaning something like 'calming/peace-bringing technique' based on the kanji, so it could perhaps be used to name something, but it's definitely not a word with an actual everyday meaning. それはさておき、色々な興味深いビデオを作ってくれて、ありがとうございます。登録しました！
The black fighter is Jon Jones, I think his Tattoo means his style own "Gaidojutsu"
Hello my friends this is ME Wilson SR! I want to thank you for sharing your knowledge about kanji and the writing it was very very good very very informative I'll be looking forward to the very next video that you send thank you so much!!
I've been watching people mis-use kanji for decades now. When will people start at least running these things by a Japanese person first?!
They either don’t know any, or think they know more about Japanese culture and language than the Japanese do.
Nah, this is fine!
4:25 , the grass on top part of 1st char (ying) is correct in traditional font chinese, it's often written like that with the grass being 4 strokes as that one has. Down, across, then down across.
If you ever want to have a Japanese text as a tattoo. You should have at least two Japanese friends rather than Google translating it. Or maybe post about on Reddit or something.
or visit your local Japanese community center if your city has one.
Or ask Yusuke Sensei here.
6:40 makes perfect sense. One of the core principles of Budo is the technique of remaining calm in the face of imminent death.
"I like avengers too" I'm dying 🤣
I think it's a testament to art of kanji that people out side of Japanese culture think of it as a way to make a statement more visually appealing. =\
The words Jones has written on him say "Pictogram champion"
I don't have any Tattoos. It's not a Rebel thing anymore. Everyone and their Grandma has them now.
When I was in my early teens and at the Karate School, talking with other students and our Sensei. In comes an older student of nineteen or twenty years old. Smiling broadly and all excited because he got a Tattoo on his forearm. It was one of those Skull Tattoos with a Knife going down through the Skull. He was showing it off to all of us that were there. Sensei was not impressed. He said to this student. "Now you are a marked man for life." The smile got wiped away and I could see the student now questioning in his own mind, if this had been a good idea.
Well , it's going to be very funny in a few decades. Young people will wonder, where do all these tattooed senior citizens come from???
@@violent_bebop9687 Ha Ha Ha, Your post got me to thinking. I can't imagine what some old, wrinkled codger is going to look like, with their body covered in Tattoos, that are so distorted by the wrinkles, brown age spots and hair growth, where there was no hair years earlier. Not only will the Tattoos be faded, make no sense and be unidentifiable, they will probably look gross. That's what it's going to look like as those people age, shrivel and shrink, lose their muscle mass and start sagging everywhere.
First guy was Frank Mir, the Samurai symbol was not trying to say Mr Samurai it is MIR on his back like a sports jersey or something, his "champion without a title" is odd because he was a UFC champion at one point. 3rd guy is Jeff Monson I think, pretty wild guy. 4th guy is George St Pierre, one of the best MMA competitors of all time. The last guy is the current UFC heavyweight champion (I think) Stipe Miocic. His tattoo might be referring to his team/gym but he is also (or was) a firefighter so maybe it is that? I don't know, kind of funny to think of him as a Pokemon type though, lol!
For Stipe I think it's a reference to his gym since the gym is called Strong Style
Only in America do we throw around traditions that are not ours, out of context. ( arrogantly ) We even declare some foods as foreign. Like French fries or French toast. German chocolate cake. Ect ect...
Then you have tattoos. With a language you cant read. Which translates to chicken sandwich for all you know.