My random codes, Taido Karate Experience, thoughts, & ideas!
The new semester is about to start and and I am looking forward to it. New semester means campus and the town becomes lively again and we will most likely gain at least one or two new Taido students. I feel like I get the best of both worlds: Fall and Spring semesters are busy … Read More “Fall 2024 Starting” »
A couple of months back, my coworker and I got on the topic of Gundams and the buildable characters and shows that make up the franchise. I’ll call him C. C introduced the idea of building Gundams after we started talking about the shows and whipped out his phone and showed off a few that … Read More “Gundam!” »
Taido summer camp is held at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It is a two-day event that brings together a good portion of the U.S. Taido population. The university clubs that came were MSU Taido, University of Memphis Taido, and Georgia Tech Taido. The Honbu, Japanese for Headquarters, was of course there and anyone who was … Read More “Taido Summer Camp 2023” »
This past weekend on March 2nd, American Taido’s 49th annual National Tournament was held and I competed! This was my second time going to the National Tournament. Last year I was just a plain, Jane White belt with about a month worth of training and competed in the Untai no Hokei White Belt division. This … Read More “2024 Taido National Tournament” »
Hello! I started 2024 off well with Kangeiko at the Taido Honbu (Headquarters)! Kangeiko translates to Cold Training and is the first event of the year for Taido. Mississippi State University Taido drove up to Atlanta, Georgia to participate and it was my first time there. It was very cold at 16 degrees Fahrenheit outside … Read More “Kangeiko 2024” »
The last character to be announced for the upcoming Tekken 8 game will introduce the first every Taido Martial Arts user! This is very exciting news for the Taido community because it will be an advertisement to the whole world! Taido Karate is a niche, largely unknown style of karate that focuses on fluidity and … Read More “Tekken 8 Adds First Ever Taido Martial Arts User” »
I had the joy and honor to attend the Taido Shodan (Beginner) Black Belt Test that was held November 4th, 2023. The Black Belt Candidates were Tony Garcia, Pubuduni Ekanayaka Mudiyanselage Egoda Walawwe, and Wes Salton. Shelley Keith took the test alongside the other candidates in place of her late husband, Ron Cossman, who unfortunately … Read More “Taido Black Belt Test 2023” »
I got very bored at work today and finished off a very poor attempt at making a parody of Counting Stars. The initial lines came to me last night while playing Magic with some friends and decided to try my best to put something together. I remember reading somewhere that you shouldn’t try to make … Read More “Counting Cards – A parody of Counting Stars turning into a song about Magic the Gathering” »
I HATE Pointers!! Phew, now that I got THAT hate speech out of the way, we can get into how this one project made me hate pointers, well not as much anymore. The first programming language I learned was HTML the summer before college, but I only really became invested once I got to community … Read More “Tortoise and the Hare in C++ and Python” »
The Making of this… Weird Story I was hanging out all alone in my college’s computer science department lab finishing up homework when I needed something else to do. I went to repl.it, an in-browser IDE, and found a Python course to kill time. Now, I already know Python, but I figured a refresher couldn’t … Read More “Insertive Short Story Code” »