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Lightsabre classes for Star Wars fans

Started by Still Waters , Feb 26 2013 02:20 PM
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#1    Still Waters

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Posted 26 February 2013 - 02:20 PM

A group of San Francisco Star Wars fans have created a combat choreography class for Jedis-in-training with their weapon of choice - the lightsabre.

At a recent class, Alain Bloch, the self-proclaimed Jedi Master at Golden Gate Knights, demonstrated a slicing technique.

Donning a Luke Skywalker outfit and a green lightsabre, Mr Bloch, who has a background in martial arts and stage combat, said: "Always be mindful of the presence!"

http://news.sky.com/...-training-class
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 12:31 PM

Nerds.

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Posted 27 February 2013 - 12:48 PM

View PostThe Skeptic Eric Raven, on 27 February 2013 - 12:31 PM, said:

Nerds.

Yeah, nerds.

Where do I sign up? :w00t:
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 02:05 PM

I already lost an arm to a lightsabre, I really don't think this is a good idea...

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Posted 27 February 2013 - 02:11 PM

Well, you shouldn't have pulled that blaster. You just had it coming, tough guy! :w00t:

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Posted 27 February 2013 - 02:37 PM

I love that the best picture this website could find is a bunch of squirrels fighting with light sabers, that should really help with selling he validity of this class!

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Posted 27 February 2013 - 03:01 PM

View PostFLOMBIE, on 27 February 2013 - 02:11 PM, said:

Well, you shouldn't have pulled that blaster. You just had it coming, tough guy! :w00t:

Well I didn't like him...   ;)
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 03:29 PM

View PostJunior Chubb, on 27 February 2013 - 03:01 PM, said:

Well I didn't like him...   ;)

Pehaps, but that little one wasn't worth the effort.
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 03:47 PM

First lesson:
It's just like sword fighting, except you have to make 'vroom' 'foosh' 'pzzkt' sound effects.

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Posted 27 February 2013 - 04:25 PM

View PostLilly, on 27 February 2013 - 03:29 PM, said:

Pehaps, but that little one wasn't worth the effort.

In hindsight I think you are right...
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 06:44 PM

when are we gonna get dark side lessons?
force choking-
it's the future!
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Posted 27 February 2013 - 07:18 PM

The past really, a long time ago...
I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything.

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Posted 27 February 2013 - 07:27 PM

View PostJunior Chubb, on 27 February 2013 - 07:18 PM, said:

The past really, a long time ago...
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oh, bugger!!
why is it always the past? everything interesting ALWAYS happens in the past, rickets, pyramid-building aliens, laudanum, and I always miss it!
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Posted 28 February 2013 - 06:30 AM

View PostHasina, on 27 February 2013 - 03:47 PM, said:

First lesson:
It's just like sword fighting, except you have to make 'vroom' 'foosh' 'pzzkt' sound effects.
Well, being a bit of a Star Wars nerd, I've got a couple of MR (Master Replica) Lightsabers, and these make the vroom, foosh, pzzkt sounds already built in (the blade and handle sense movement and resistance).  And being an ultra-uber Star Wars nerd, I've got a couple more MR Lightsabers that have been modified to use a tube of optic-fibers to light the blade rather than the normal LED lights found in the blade of the normal MR, which means I can (and have) been involved in several full-contact saber duels with full light and sound-effects (one time at a sci-fi convention, with too much energy and alcohol at the end of the day I got a poke in the eye and was dubbed the nickname "Patch" for having to wear an eye-patch, and since we weren't exactly medics at the hotel I was staying at, I used someone else's cosplay costume, and it had a skull-and-crossbones covering it).

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So yeah, sign me up for this class, it'd be fun :w00t:

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Posted 28 February 2013 - 01:58 PM

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