I’ve had my nose pierced twice, so it’s not really a big deal for me, I spontaneously decided to get it redone with a friend yesterday.
I have kickboxing in a couple of hours, and now I’m realising what a mistake it was!! When I had it done before I didn’t do kickboxing.. If I take it out for the two hours it will close up and it will be a waste of £20. I could tape it, but I could get badly hurt if I get a hook to the face.
What do I do??? I really like it but now I feel stupid because it’s just so impractical.
I haven’t started sparring yet, but my instructor was just saying on sunday that I should start soon, but obviously I will have to wait until I can take it out.
So anyway, please tell me how I should deal with it in the immediate future!
Thanks 🙂
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I am with possum on that one. 20/20 hindsight. Take your choice (there are three) and scratch it off as a learning experience. Next time you do something to your body think it through. Poking holes in your body where there shouldn’t be any and drawing permanent pictures on your skin always have consequences.
Can’t really speak for kickboxing, only karate. But I switched my fresh nose stud to the smallest ring I could fit (yes, it hurts like a b*tch when it’s fresh but its better than getting punched with a stud) and that helped. It didn’t get caught on anyone’s fingers or me and the only time there was contact was when I was too slow to avoid a headshot or got thrown around a lil too enthusiastically. Seven years later I still have that piercing – no tears, no perforations. When it comes to sparring you could either sit out, be uber alert or ask your partner to either avoid headshots or pull them slightly
You decided to put another hole in your head without thinking about the consequences?
I think you have three choices:
1) Don’t spar, and admire your new hole.
2) Don’t put any more more holes in your head, let this one heal up, and then spar later.
3) Spar anyway and take your chances.
My ears were pierced when I was a young man. The reason for it is a bit unusual. My style is Kajukenbo. Our founder Sijo Adriano Emperado and his entourage of Black Belts all had their ears pierced and I thought it was real cool. So I did it also. This was back in the 1980’s. I wore sleeper studs and I trained with them. Nothing happened to me. If I was hit in the ears, the stud just rolled with the impact of the force.
Flash forward to the 21st century. I wore captive rings in my ears. I also had another captive ring in another part of my body. I saw teenagers with knives in the commuter train. I went back to train in Kajukenbo after a long absence. I took off the captive rings in my ears before training and put them back on after training, because when all the health and safety regulations, you can be endangering your training partners.
I took off the other captive ring in my body. After the first session of training, the piercing closed up and I couldn’t put the captive ring back in again. And I had that piercing for almost 5 years. My style has very dangerous training procedures. You are thrown hard and painful jujitsu holds are done on you. Having a captive ring in my body is just too dangerous. I had to ask myself a question, “What’s more important, a piercing or the martial art that I love?” I chose my martial art.
I still have captive rings in both ears. I take them off before training and I put them back on after training.
Source(s): Arnis, Kajukenbo
Tape it or take it out. Those are really your only two options. Personally, I would take it out. Getting a nose ring ripped out would not be an enjoyable experience!
Best thing to do is not to spar.
Well, don’t spar, or you will become Voldermort.
Source(s): Trust me, I’m a professional.