When black belt jiujiteiros and purple belt podcasters Josh Hinger and Keenan Cornelius started chatting about jiu-jitsu tattoos on their MatBurn collaboration a few weeks ago, we wondered how the grappling community chooses to represent via permanent body mutilation. The answer? A lot of chess imagery, some creative typography, and all kind of innovative ways to weave belts and gis into various designs that normally wouldn’t include belts or gis. (Also, at least one tattoo of Disney’s Belle rolling with The Beast.)
There were too many photos submitted to include all the reader ink this time around, but here’s forty of our favorites to get your own gears turning next time you’re drunk post-competition strolling by a strange tattoo parlor with your team:
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