Hey everyone, I wanted to talk about Jedi swordsmanship. How good are their skills? Can they beat a knight in swordfighting? How 'bout a samurai or ninja? Or maybe a Klingon? Please discuss.
























Yeah, depending on the time zone it's no longer the First, but whatever. I apologize if this doesn't compare to Albion's April Fool's, but look on the bright side: It was free!

As always,Hollywood fighting is just that : it has nothing to do with real life.This is just a generalization,however.There are some movies that have decent fighting techniques in them,for example Ridley Scott's The Duellists.However,fighting with lightsabers is pure fantasy,so there is no technique to base it off of.One must,for the most part, make it up.A lightsaber is facinating,because it is very lightweight,and almost no significant force is necessary to render a killing blow.So the fighting styles should lend themselves to elegance,but that is rarely seen in in the films,with the notable exception of Count Dooku.Of course a Jedi could kill any other swordsman because of his superior weapon.Katana Vs. lightsaber hmmmm...I wonder what weapon will win? ;)

Of course,then we must consider that a large portion of any well trained Jedi's techniques rely on using the "force".
UH OH
I think you may have opened a perverbial can of worms here.Oh well,it will be interesting :D :p :eek:

Happy April Fools everyone. : )

Laser swords is scary!!!

While republic era light sabers are obviosly weightless designs, the later imperial era ones seem to have a significant amount of mass.
This could be the result of an addition of torqe enhancers during the late stages of the clone wars due to the focus on the bind in millitary lightsaber combat, the later being a clear result of the precognition abilities of the users.
When the prime use war to impress peasants and deflect blaster fire, light light sabres where perfect. When defending your life against the Sith, you want a more stopping power.

There's something strange about light sabres. They have no guard, so simply sliding down on the blade to cut off the wielders hands should be a very common move. In case someone finds a guard that's out of some kind of material, hey presto we have found what a samurai or knight needs as armour to fight this bunch of religious heretics.
A nice pommel would also be a good idea, perhaps with a short light sabre to serve as a kind of dagger that can be separated.
Something else I wonder about is the short length of light sabres and that they aren't for example integrated with blasters. So beware if I ever turn Sith.

A belated happy April First to everybody!

Jean Thibodeau wrote,"Knight , Samurai, Ninja, Klingon all lose to the Light Sabre because the Light Sabre can cut all physical materials like they where not even there, so blocking or parrying doesn't work with a steel sword or Klingon Bathlet......."

OK, but you know what I've never been able to understand is that when Luke or some other Jedi loses his sword why doesn't it just keep cutting whatever it touches? As I remember they didn't have kill switches.

So if you dropped an activated light saber point down would it just keep falling forever? Is this a new definition of infinity?

Gaah! I'm scaring myself now, I still have to live in this head, I don't want it cluttered up with such nonsense!

But since it can cut through material objects (yes, I'm bitten too by this virus) it might have real trouble parrying against a steel weapon. Imagine a full-weight cut delivered with a pass--you could force the jedi to parry, cutting your sword in half at the meza spada, and kill him with the lower half of your sword.

Pretty much a one use tactic, but heck, it's a Hollywood universe.

A katana can cut a light saber in half, I swear it's true, I saw it on you tube.

I think most of your responses are funnier than my OP, particularly yours Simon.

And Ken, according to EU (Expanded Universe, I.E. the books and video games, which are considered secondary canon by Lucas Arts) lightsabres have a variety of switches customized as the particular user prefers. Some even have no external parts and the switch is on the inside, only able to be activated by the use of the Force.

If I remember correctly, when Darth Vader prepares to throw his lightsabre at Luke during the duel in Return of the Jedi you can see him doing something to the hilt, which some have interpeted as him fiddling with the switch before the throw. This implies that in his case, he set up his lightsabre to only stay on while in his hand and had to rig it to do otherwise when thrown.

I also recall an incident in one of the books where a lightsabre is dropped point first while on. Apparently the blade is narrower than the hilt and thus it could not just fall through the ground. With the blade being weightless, when the hilt hit it flipped onto its side, cutting an neat little arc in the floor as it did so.

The Samurai will always win, simply because not even a lightsaber can block the vacuum slash of the Katana.

Darth Tobler? Isn't he the guy that invented those triangular chocolate bars?

So why don't the light saber people get some of that invisible super aluminum Albion was using about a year ago and make crossguards for the light sabers? Hmmmm, would that be like an unstoppable force hitting an immovable object?

What did you say? It was invisible aluminum and the guys at Albion put it somewhere and can't find it? NAW.........Darth Chaney knows where it is, its with those WMA's in Iraq!!!

Hmmm... We should start calling Christian Tobler Darth Tobler. It would be funny, if the next time he logs in he misses this thread and can't figure out why everyone keeps referring to him as Darth Tobler. ;)


Edit: And the thought just occurred to me: Two there are, so which is the master and which is the apprentice? To further show my geekiness, I would point out that although there are only two Sith, there can be an unlimited number of Dark Jedi as per EU. So... myArmoury.com is a haven for the Dark Side! There are Dark Jedi everywhere. What have I done? I am among them now, I've turned to the Dark Side!

If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny...