I love how Ray always makes sure he spends time having fun with his fans. He takes the love he receives from them & pays it back in kind. I really respect that in him, & every celebrity or famous person should learn from his example.
@newschoololdschool In stage combat, you never actually strike at the person, because if you mess up, people can get seriously hurt. That's why they're not actually striking at eachvother.
Fencing is different it focuses on thrusting. I'm not talking about fencing and you don't fence with swords. Lightsaber if you fight with double, single or two handed all are open to thrust or slashes. This is just an acting fight to create predictable movements on where you're going to likely strike based on long swing movements. When you want to kill your opponent you aim for their body not their weapon, not saying you should not block attacks but don't make useless strikes at the their blade
True, you wouldn't make useless strikes at the blade, not like this video shows at least. Sometimes though it is necessary to get the dang thing out of the way, a slight nudge will do the trick though.
@MonsterHuntingFTW why not.....maybe cause hes a fan. Just let people have fun and do what they want as long as it aint hurting anything then whats the problem?
LoL, people are debating Star Wars martial arts theory? First of all, jedi can predict the future or is it anticipate ahead a split second. This accounts for them able to deflect blaster fire, etc. Normal attacks should not work against them. Star Wars fans should be able to cite official canon on these things. ^_^ Don't forget it's science fiction. Take for example in Dune they have to stab through personal force fields at a certain slow speed. Fast attacks will be deflected.
Be honest most of the star wars nerds "No offense I'm kind of one too" can't sword fight for their lives. Sure they can try to look good to the untrained sword fighter, but for the trained we know how to make a quick effective kill. I remember they had me duel darth vader the opening of Episode 3 in my Stormtrooper suit. Took me 2 strikes and it was done. lol Vader destroyed by his stormtrooper.