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[Jarmel]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/22/you-too-can-become-a-jedi-at-lightsaber-school

For many Star Wars fans, it's been a lifelong dream to wield a lightsaber and master the combat of a more civilized age. Now, thanks to one determined fan, you can make those dreams a reality.

Alain Bloch, a 32-year-old San Francisco-based software engineer and lifelong devotee of the epic space saga, came up with the idea to start his very own combat choreography school designed around the Jedi and Sith weapon.

http://www.sabercombat.com/

Yea, I really don't have many words for this.

 

[strafer]

Unleash your inner Luke.

 

[BattleMonkey]

C&D letter already in the mail

 

[Exr]

Will there be discounts if attendees have ponytails

 

[Neverfade]

How much to fight Lucas to the death?

 

[injurai]

 

[commedieu]

Oh man, I want to beat up everyone involved with this. And I'm not even a bully.

 

[FStop7]

I always wondered why nobody would ever simply turn their lightsaber off when someone takes a big swing at their blade. The person swinging would be thrown off balance when they whiff and then you could just turn you blade back on and stab them.

Cool weapon in movies but it's one of those things where the more you think about it the more you realize it's dumb.

 

[jambo]

 

[lastplayed]

Hey if it gets people active and socialising why not?

 

[commedieu]

Thats literally all this looks like.

Hey if it gets people active and socialising why not?

Fair enough.

Spoiler

..mom..

 

[BattleMonkey]

I always wondered why nobody would ever simply turn their lightsaber off when someone takes a big swing at their blade. The person swinging would be thrown off balance when they whiff and then you could just turn you blade back on and stab them.

Cool weapon in movies but it's one of those things where the more you think about it the more you realize it's dumb.

If turning off the weapon during a big swing would cause them to miss you, they never were going to hit you in the first place and it was a bad move to begin with on their part as they were aiming at your weapon and not you. Swords hitting each other should only be to deflect a damaging blow, not just randomly hitting each others blade like in the movies

 

[Slayven]

No thinks I have more then enough traits that dry up poontang.

 

[Garrett 2U]

 

[OneEightZero]

 

[lastplayed]

Fair enough.

Spoiler

..mom..

It's not really my thing. I prefer real swords

 

[ComputerMKII]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canne_de_combat

http://www.youtube.com/#/watch?v=eMdZjyU7i54

 

[Chie Satonaka]

If there's a market for this, why the hell not?

This is no different than cosplay or LARP or anything else. Just because I would never do it doesn't mean it's not cool for other people.

Have fun.