El Héroe Oscuro

Well, Alex did a funky account merge because I wanted my old (dead) account's user ID. So basically Alex (UID 282798) was merged into Layne Staley (this account) instead of the other way around, I had my username changed and join date updated... yeah. Unless there's data still left with account 282798 that you can access.

Haha, thanks man :P

Wouldn't happen to know anyone who could use this would you?

>:^)

Ok, thanks :)

It is probably on iphone too, I had it on my ipod touch like 3 years ago

hahahaha I figured you weren't joking, plenty of people have said that to me so I acknowledge it by eating as much junk food as I can while it lasts

that happens to me all the time

enjoy your MIDGET

Your avatar is absolutely beautiful.

Your profile picture also has an unrefined elegance to it as well... it looks like the person is insecure a bit, but in a cute way. It's so nice.

haha thank you! I used this username on a couple of other forums before this, and I was pleasantly surprised that the name wasn't taken on a forum this huge.

You didn't? Because Shotokan is the pen-name of Funakoshi, also known as the 'modern father' of karate. =p It was the first major style that was really popularised in Japan (as it was first in Okinawa), and from my understanding the base style of karate that made it outside of Japan too. May even be the most practised style overall, but I'm less sure about that fact/statistics. At any rate it's a major style.

Fighting isn't full-contact with not much padding (gloves, shin-pads and mouthguard is basically it), and training involves 1 step, 2-3 step, drills and free sparing (at least in my dojo), and overall only makes up one 'third' of the training (basics and kata being the two other larger sections of training generally). They link together too. I suppose compared to other styles shotokan tends to have longer, deeper stances.

SAO was pretty good, although I probably share the common belief in that I thought the Fairy Dance Arc wasn't as good as the Aincrad Arc of the series.

Yeah, having trouble actually making friends, but the site is helpful game wise.

No i haven't met one i like yet ! yikes! :(

I'll write up a PM and link titles to wikipedia :)

Shotokan karate. Ages back when I started it was Goshin Ryu, but then we moved and hence trained at a different dojo.

I'm at college right now anyway, so no hurry!

Do you mind sending me the code for your signature? I just want to see it so I can try to figure out what the problem is.

Did you still want book suggestions?

yeah, first year of Bio-Medical Engineering, what's yours?