In regards to the Star Wars fight, that clip cut the moment the padawan threw his lightsaber to stop the sith's attack with his lightsaber. This also distracts the sith giving the jedi master the opportunity to finish the fight.
Yo, I just watched a 15yo, 5min, star wars fan film fight scene: Ryan vs Dorkman 2 (I stopped watching the 1st one cuz of reverse grip ☠️, but the sequel doesn’t have any). Id also love it if ya’ll blind react to it. Theres so much good, but also some… Star Wars bs 😂, Idk if its exemplary or cringey.
You have to remember that there were multiple different schools (both of thought and in training) of smallsword use. English, French, and Northern Italian schools did not use and did not encourage the use of finger rings on smallswords. Southern Italian schools did have functional finger rings and did encourage their use; finger rings do offer exceptional point control after all. Although it is still odd that a movie about French men would feature smallswords with what appear to be functional rather than vestigial rings. Earlier smallswords would also have had functional cutting, rapier-style blades (albeit shorter than what you would find on an actual rapier).
I love the Killer Bee fight! xD He‘s the kinda guy too who didn’t train this style cuz it’s viable but because he thought it’s cool and so he MADE it viable, because superhuman ninja can just do that if they train hard enough. xD Also, never watched Zorro, genuinely blown away by the fight (tho it lasted a little too long for me lol).
Couldn't the production of force lightning just be too big an effort to easily use the sword besides that (unlike a dagger, a _light_ sidearm, which you can use to just create an opening)? Force lightning always felt very powerful and impactful, like something that needs constant attention from the one who has to defend against it while the one producing it was pretty much occupied with doing that; if your lightning is blocked you are to some extent caught up in this, so it's like being equipped with a longsword and a polearm: you're not duel-wielding that effectively. This changes the dynamic of such a situation - the defending side is not as much weaker than the attacker as one might have expected from such a purely defensive maneuver, and might actually be in control at the moment - but this suits what we see in the prequels where Mace Windu blocks the force lightning and while doing so manages to overpower Sidious. Edit: also, in this scene it looks as if the Sith was struggling to move his sword while producing force lightning to meet the pressure from his opponent.
Yes, actually. In lore IIRC the reason why lightsaber duels last so long is because the combattants are using a slight amount of force clairvoyance. Use any other force ability beside that, and that gets a lot harder
@@lucasgamezz140 That, too. I was actually rather thinking of physical exertion, though, since Sith using force lightning always have a strained expression on their faces.
or overly nitpicking fights that aren't two skilled people fighting eachother but just normal actors given a few days of basic training so they dont bludgeon eachother bloody
If you do another of these, I'd love to see you react to: Good sword fights: The Duellists (1977) The Three Musketeers (1973) The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974) Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans (1987) En garde, monsieur (Short 1996) Sword of the Stranger (2007) Scaramouche (1952) Maria the Virgin Witch (TV Series 2015-) Macbeth (1971) Bad sword fights: Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell (1988) Warrior of Justice (1995) Highlander: The Source (TV Movie 2007) WTF swordfights: Duel to the Death (1983) Versus (2000) Zipang (1990) And outside of movies, maybe the video game Hellish Quart, and the Holmgang Hamburg trying to kill each other and sometimes succeeding.
I'm curious to seeing them react to the original test fights of the SW prequels with fights like Anakin vs Dooku, Anakin and Obi-Wan vs Dooku, and Palpatine vs Mace Windu and the jedi. They're on Nick Gillard's channel and in my opinion, while flashy, they are much more slick and smooth than those in the final films.
If they're going to review something Star Wars every time, I think it'd be interesting to see them review the fight in the Star Wars Visions episode The Ronin because that episode was just pure samurai movie goodness. Also a tiny disclaimer, nothing in Star Wars Visions is canon and were just a bunch of animation studios given the greenlight to make something Star Wars, so some of the episodes do some real wacky stuff (looking at you The Twins).
that monte christo fight was baaaaaaad. They obviously had someone on set who was like "eeehhhh I dunno, whatever. This sword looks olden timey like this movie. Here use this thing. Ehhhh whatever. Just swing it around and spin ehhhh whatever I'll be at the craft services table"
I headcanon that Killer Bee was making the swords stick to his body with chakra, once he put them in the body creases. That being said it was still a ridiculous fight lol.
In star wars, the lightsaber have different parts and stuff that makes each saber different from each other in sounds and performance. This samurai Jedi must have had built his saber to have a quick emitter. My own lightsaber, I actually have a really fast on and off to be able to imitate that move. My own designing of that move though, is to keep the saber hidden with the forearm and a cloak and turn it on when the enemy is not expecting anyone to be there. Assassination. Not Jedi like at all, but probably one of the only real implementations of that ability. The other implementation I thought off, is rather than blocking/catching a blade then turning it off and on, pretend your going to block/catch the blade, and turn it off right before they would make contact. Thus causing the enemy to unexpectedly follow through with their strike. Hopefully knocking them off balance for an instant. Definitely a move that, if it works, won't work a second time. I'm not a swordsman though. I'm just operating on theory.
You really need to react to the sword fights in "Les Trois Mousquetaires: D'Artagnan" - the one with Vincent Cassel and Eva Green. I think you'll find them interesting.
Afro Samurai would be an interesting one to add to this series if it continues onward. Has a lot of high end swordfights, especially the movies. Recall them being pretty good overall.
8:21 the reason why trakata isn’t used a lot is because in Star Wars it’s stigmatized by both Jedi and sith The Jedi think it’s honorless and the sith view it the same as using a noob tube in CoD
I’m going to argue that Killer Bee having Gyuki in him for so long has made him part octopus and he can mold his body around the swords. Lol😂 But seriously, yeah that was pretty ridiculous.
The Zorro scene was incredible ! I didn't like the Star Wars scene as much, because I'm not a huge fan of the animation style. If there's one anime with some great swordfights I'd like to recommend to you, it would be Samurai Champloo, I'd love to see you react to some of the sword fighting scenes ! I loooove Killer Bee's fighting style in Naruto, and it reminds me of another character who fights with a stupidly high number of swords : Mifune from Soul Eater (the manga), though instead of doing breakdance and catching it with his arm pits, he simply juggles with it. And as for the Count of Monte Cristo, there's currently a new movie that just came out in France, I haven't seen it yet but I'd love to see the fight choreography in it !
Hey do you by chance know about knife fighting? I'm an anime and fantasy fan that loves the reverse grip, despite being aware of how dumb it is. I'm not a swoardman, samurai, saberist etc. But I love to learn about them. I fell in love with a Filipino martial art known as Kali. Reverse grip, or "ice pick grip" is pretty common. Obviously this is because its a short blade and the physics work better than something long with leverage. What I'm wondering, is there a scenario, where a knife could be used reverse grip with dual wielding a sword? Like using the knife like a parrying dagger, or maybe using it more like Kali? Like using your main hand weapon to block and use the knife to shred an opponents limbs? I'm not saying it is possible or not. I'm genuinely asking based on a thought I had when I was smoking weed. At the very least bit, I've never seen anyone put out a video on how reverse grip could be useful if you used a knife, or a short blade, instead.
If I remember correctly, Jim Caviezel fought hard for count of monte Cristo to stay true to the book. Evidently the studio wanted to change some core things and he just straight up said “you think you know better than one of the greatest authors of all time?” He’s a real one for sure
Hello! nice video it'd be cool if you guys would react to the Star wars the old republic cinematic trailers. Some of the nicest looking lightsaber fights in the history of starwars. I searched your channel a bit and it didn't seem like yall had done that before.
David, please, watch Andor if you haven't. Genuinely one of the best pieces of recent television in general, it's insanely good. Can't recommend it enough
Have you not seen the fights in Ahsoka? Diana Lee Inosanto performed and choreographed much of it. She's the daughter of Dan Inosanto and goddaughter of Bruce Lee, so she definitely knows how to craft a good fight. I'd love to see you react to them because I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. They manage to embody a lot of emotion and character into the combat.
the light takes a lot of con to do and his body being the shape it was more then likely he could not move quickly. defiance is easer then attack wan it comes to the force. sorry nerd rant over
