Swordsman explains why lightsaber lore is WRONG!  

Honestly I think it's that with a bit of the weightlessness

I think even if it had all the weight in the hilt, swinging it like u did w the flashlight wouldn't work against someone who also had one

Definitely. Lore-wise, lightsabers weigh a ton to non-force users because they're not attuned to it.

@@tracker7059 the hilts are abt the weight of a gun. Idk if the blade has weight in canon. But there's a scene or 2 I know for sure where non-force users fight w lightsabers. They don't do very well, but they more or less use it like a normal sword and less efficiently than trained sword users

That's new canon, from disney.

Yeah ds3 les gooo

Blasters are so uncivilized.

Well guess what, times have changed

This quote needs to be paired with the third interpretation

@A Megalodon With Internet Connection *the battle cry of 100 space Marines with chainswords revving intensifies*

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According to some novelizations that exactly what it looks like.

DEATH FLASHLIGHTS I CANT 🤣🤣🤣

​@@Creepo_J OMG THATS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGH OF lmao the pro strat I was always swinging the controller left right as fast as possible the whole time

It’s a lightsaber… light has no weight.. the lazer is just a really strong beam of light…. DOES THIS MEAN THAT THEY *ARE* JUST DEATH FLASHLIGHTS??

Lol a garage. He has a legit gym and students. He's far more professional then that

Pretty sure if you did this lame shit in a garage your life is still over...

Do not make fun of the original Grand Master. He used a dual sided broomstick mind you. How many others have done that.

Adults that play dress up have no lives to begin with

@@Celestial_Reach you still got much to learn, youngling

Last one was: I don't like fiction and don't actually care about lore, nor should I be doing videos about fictional blades!

@@jamesrudnicky5937 You would be able to do a pull-up by now if you spent half as much time practicing that instead of raging about "accuracy" within the online lightsaber discussion community.

@@christianc.christian5025 you would be able to do a pull up if you spent half the time actually being productive rather than putting others down you don't know to make yourself feel better. Hell...you might even do two! Shoot for the stars!

Yeah, I'd probably be a soldier at most

@@jamesrudnicky5937 @christianc.christian5025 Now kiss

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@@lowballinn thanks for helping my step sister with her laundry

​@@NuddyButty641 Dude, he helped my mom too! What a nice guy

@@bruhmoment3478 He also helped my dad with washing his back, he's a really nice guy.

​@@lowballinn Thank you for unclogging the drain for my girlfriend while I was away. I really wish more people would spend time with her while I'm traveling for work because even though she's an introvert she still gets lonely.

Brings back memories of Wii Sports Resort swordplay!

@@matthewjuliano2440 ikr

@@matthewjuliano2440 Memory unlocked, I used to speedrun that gamemode!

I love that game. Using guts sword it feels like Im actually wielding a heavy sword

I too downloaded the StarWars mod for Blade and Sorcery. Then found a wave mod for younglings.

@s8r5dad More like a fencing then kendo, lots of thrusts parring.

He forgot the baseball bat

You dont need powers. Han solo did it, Padme did it and grievous did it

@@jakob8940 Im pretty sure Grevious, when he was turned into a Cyborg, was installed artificial force powers.

@@jakob8940 Padme couldve carried the force from Anakin Skywalker, aswell. Following this, Han solo, should've been a Force Sensitive because he has insane luck, than any other non-force sensitives, as Han Solo also had a child, Ben Solo, which practiced the force.

@@C.F.P "artificial force" doesnt exist and you also cant use the force from someone else. Every living thing has Midichlorians and being "force sensitive" just means that you have way more than the average person.

​@@jakob8940anakin put some "midichlorians" in padme

3rd to last? You mean the 1st one?

@@ravn_blade You're thinking third FROM last.

@@wachikinow Even if it was said differently, "third till/to/from last" you are choosing #1 when there is only 4. Either way it should be "next/2nd to last" if we are talking about the 3rd in this context.

@@ravn_blade Agreed!

@@ravn_bladethere are four types shown in video so 3rd to last would be the second one

Plus many Jedi and sith also have allies, so using it in more unpredictable ways means you end up taking out your target but also have a lot of dead bodies of people who you kind of needed to help you.

The lightsabers have weight. They're not just a bean of light. And the Crystal is in tune with the user, so the more unbalanced you are within yourself the heavier the saber gets...

I'd side with you but I do the same

But the correct way to use a lightsaber would be for thrusting its a blade of energy and has no blade edge.

​@@Robert53area you dont need a blade edge when it can melt through pure metal and steel.

​@@valley6145 which means you should get the lethal end into the target at the safest distance - via thrusting vital points 👊

@@oldmanhutch reject intelligence. do stupidity.

I didnt think about that. That really could be incredible with proper training

@@goldenapplesaga5446 or even without changing weight just feeding more energy into the blade making it "harder" than other blades allowing you to "shatter" their blade. Yes, this was a thing. Sort of.

Introducing: The Darksaber! It technically becomes more heavy when the user us not connected with it, but as you become more in tune with it, it becomes easier to use, but it wouldn't be that hard to believe that you could use it like that. Mandalorians are wild

It's op if you can gaslight it but if you can't gaslight a sword mid combat then like it kinda sucks

​@@chaoticdetectivepeach now thats a sentance i was not expecting to hear, ever.

Guess they couldn't handle the neutron style.

@@thedodgeviperacr5935 Later ni-

Yikes 😮 This was 3 months ago... is he OK? Real question.

​@@ChineduOparaIts joke

@@Paladin47 I hope so!

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Idiot

Did someone call for me?

Uhm. There is so much wrong here. 1. Katana is slightly curved, which already makes it much different, without pointing out that the mechanics of strikes are different, since touch is lethal and no edge alignment present. 2. It "cuts" different materials differently. There are resistant steels, but they are more rare, and there are super resistant bescar which is mythically rare. Durasteel is already not like a hot knife though butter, that's important.

@@FirstLast-wk3kc UM WELL ACKHTUALLY 🤓

@@w3ss3x it is. I meant no offence, though.

Which makes a lot of sense since Makashi (that form) was first described in the Attack of the Clones novel which adapts the movie, where Christopher Lee uses his very real fencing skills.

​@@KairoStark It's funny how two pieces of lore where added to the prequels thanks to the actors. 1. Christopher Lloyd using a curved hilt for his lightsaber to transfer his real life fencing skills for fights. 2. Samuel L. Jackson requesting that if he was in the film, he had to have a purple lightsaber.

@@phabiorules Doc Brown was in Star Wars? 😮 😉

@@VCBird6 Great Scott!

George lucas based all lightsaber fighting on fencing

The shit do you think hes referring to

Exactly

The force is a separate entity from the lightsaber the saber can still be used by anyone in parts of the old lore, lightsabers and the force can exist without eachother.

@@thefatbob3710 it is said lightsaber were made from kyber crystal “imbued with force energy” in star wars lore explanation. Theres ton of crystal, but theres small amount crystal which hold such power and energy to power it up

@@Open6a-fx4qfhe’s saying the weapon can be used without having force powers which is true, we don’t need to get that pedantic over a comment with pretty obvious meaning, and considering the darksaber being a lightsaber, no, you do not need a Crystal with energies from the force if we really do wanna get that pedantic

Yeah if you mess up once you kill yourself and the weight of the weapon is all in the hilt people just don’t actually get it

Hence why I hate when channels say real life lightsaber fights

It was that way until Rey came along. She bested a trained killer in the Force Awakens and threatened a timid Luke Skywalker in the Last Jedi.

​@@rorycraft5453and Finn put up a good fight against Kylo Ren the first time he ever picked up a lightsaber lok

@@ricebix True, another plot hole. I could not imagine myself picking up a sword or a rapier against someone who has years of experience.

I view lightsaber lore akin to midichlorians: explaining it away with a "believable" fictional science makes it even more incredulous. Just treat them as weighted swords and pretend it's all magic, everything in Star Wars works better as space magic. This ain't Star Trek or The Expanse.

@@romxxii YES!! I absolutely agree!

In all fairness, only the Darkblade seems to really be affected by the emotions and will of the user. Most others do not have those drawbacks, although the warnings against untrained users wielding them still makes sense given the history of untrained persons accidentally killing themselves with them.

@@romxxii I honestly hate trying to explain every little thing in Star wars, it takes away from the magic. I think the medichlorians hands down ruined the force for me. In the original trilogy, it felt like anyone could become a Jedi hero, but then the prequels came along and made it feel more like the force was reserved for an elite few with enough magic microorganisms in their blood. Star Wars isn't typical science fiction, so people need to stop trying to treat it like that and give a logical explanation for it, Star Wars loves to defy physics, just let it defy physics and logic and HAVE FUN!

@@Bored_Overthinker the problem I always had with midiclorians is how easy it is to fix it without any major recons. All they need to do is say that the Jedi made a causation/correlation mistake. They assumed that midiclorians conferred force sensitivity, but all they need to do is say it was the other way around: midiclorians are drawn to strong force sensitives. The stronger the force connection, the more midiclorians are drawn to the person. This way, you still have a way to assess degress of force sensitivity without butchering the mystical element.

Kanan, a Jedi, taught Sabine about that, and since it's very consistent with what we see in the films it's reasonable to assume that's how lightsabers work too

Is that why the Darksaber is so powerful?

​@@badfoody its crystal is far hotter than the average light saber (making beskar go red-hot), and it doubles as the mark to your status as king of mandalor the emotional tie is a massive drawback because until you can connect with the blade, it will be incredibly heavy to use

@@JainaSoloB312 in the force unleashed video games, Galen Marek mediates with all components of his lightsaber (crystal and hilt) allowing him to channel the force into his blades. So I don’t think ones “emotions, and force connection” are necessary to wield the lightsaber, but instead they make the wielder a more powerful duelist. (Edit) That’s why Galen Marek could do force lightning slashes from his lightsabers, and force push enhanced attacks with his blades.

@@anthonyhernandez7799 yeah but the force unleashed isn't canon

Another reason is in rebels they explain that the lightsabers have a magnetic-like effect when hitting other light sabers thats why on duels they seem to have weight and the use of heavy swings is needed but in something like deflecting a laser bolt not that much power is needed from the user

The reason he used the force in saber combat is cuz his prosthetics are too heavy and clunky, he cant even lift his arms over his head without using the force. He even changed his fighting style/saber form because of it.

​@@AkimboInteractive yeah I forgot about that. Technically it feels like there is weight in the blade because of the magnetic field.

Vader had to adapt & change his fighting style after his duel with Obi-Wan on Mustafar. He used form 5- djem so, one of the more aggressive forms of lightsaber combat. This benefits him after putting on the armor slightly, but his mobility was hindered, obviously. He adapted it by adding in some form 7 & 2.

So basically Anakin compensated for his robot body's lack of movement by making all of his swings hit like a sledgehammer with a car battery for a head.

Or just your average Wii Sports Resort experience

The third one is the prequels lol

It's also the saber of the only Jedi Madalorian, so his honor code would be infused into the saber rather than Jedi teachings.

Still, all lightsabers require some kind of attunement. A ritual any Jedi or Sith goes through is to attune themselfs to the kyber crystal inside the weapon. Obviusly Jedi and Sith trained with lightsabers their whole life, they can wield even non-attuned ones, it's simply more difficult. Also, the only "accurate" lightsaber lore is the first one he mentioned, the second I never heard of, and the third has been made up by swords enjoyers trying to tell us how unrealistic cinematic combact is without knowing of the lore behind the in-universe weapon, not their fault for not knowing, but when making a video about something to educate someone it should be good practice to check your knowledge about the topic first.

@@AristasTheMonsterHunter I thought the Sith just kinda “Forced”(pun not intended) the crystals to the dark side. I remember a comic where Darth Vader got his first lightsaber but in order for him to fully wield it he had to make the crystal “bleed”(turn red).

@MatthewTeachout-xj4yy Disney retconning original lore. The sith used to create synthetic crystals out of dark side energy over meditation periods that would last weeks. This was due to the crystals have a pure property that made them more suited to those with balanced emotions. It was a more realistic interpretation of using nature in a balance, rather than just making crystals sentient. Typical Disney meddling.

Sounds like the Sword of Truth lol

Thanks

That is a real technique, but it's massively frowned upon by all schools of lightsaber training, no matter what side of the force they align with

@@sorin_markov I know. I'd still use it nonetheless.

@@AnbuuXL Well, that'd probably mean you'd get kicked out of whatever organization gave you the lightsaber and they'd take it away. So...

@@sorin_markov I guess I would have to make my own then.

@@AnbuuXL Good luck, considering the rarity of kyber crystals, the expense of the other materials, the jealousy with which the Jedi keep watch for kyber crystals, and the fact that you basically have to be attuned to the force to construct one.

3. Is just beat saber tbh

If it were 3, I would just start violently shaking it. Even Vader can't beat that. (Without using the force)

4th does exist it's a darksaber

Ver. 2 = An Epee Ver. 3 = An Epilepsee

I mean something is Sus about him anyway... I mean he can actually hit.

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Wouldn't say "fine" but he did use it. If we go with gyroscopic it just implies that it makes the weapon difficult to use without using force power to feel out the gyrations and generate a flow. But very much possible all the same. Finn could use it sure, but let's be real. He was clumsy with it.

We talking about Finn? He's Force sensitive.

@@robinthrush9672 was that ever confirmed? I never watched rise of Skywalker.

idk, I think the thrusting smallsword/rapier/ modern fencing looking one is pretty dynamic too. many really early films did some really cool stuff with fencing style swordsmanship.

@@midshipman8654 maybe, but fencing is generally too boring in comparison to swordfighting.

@@outcast4087 I guess thats up for debate, though Id agree a lot of modern olypic rules stuff is hard to follow and not my cup of tea, but search up smallsword or rapier fights and those are usually pretty interesting. The principles of one handed primary thrusting swords can be pretty interesting. you often having to bind and attack at the same time, and the handward balance can allow for some really fancy engagements since you can move the tip so quickly.

There's just one little problem with the horizontal resistence blade... NO DEFENSE! Especially against blaster fire, the ability to deflect blaster fire makes it a relevant weapon. What stops your opponent from going "fuck this" and taking out a blaster and doming you? The Indiana Jones technique was so effective it made swords obsolete.

@@midshipman8654 three words: The Princess Bride

Hilarious. Made me write the first yt comment in two years

@@lorenzkeppler965 Ey thank you! Also I'm glad to hear that!

@@lorenzkeppler965 two years, that's something.

Ahh, yes, of course, but did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you. It's a Sith legend...

Obiwan is a liar.

Yep. It's a space fantasy. At the time it was narratively more similar to a traditional heroes journey drama (vs. the "ooh ahh, space! so crazy" narraives of earlier sci-fi). Now there is so much content and it's such a vast narrative that arches over decades (and in some cases millennia) that it is hard to keep track and agree on "cannonicty". A part of that is because of audiences and their "ownership" of the content as fans and as a community. There is a lot of academic studies on how media and their fandoms interact and affect each other (took a whole class on it. Very intersting).

@@jacobr7740 Perfect bro

Artificial Gravity Plating sure seems like a scifi concept and not a fantasy one. Star Wars is scifi, but scifi that also has fantasy elements and mysticism. That's not a totally unique thing. 40k's weapons (bolters, lasguns, especially) are likewise very similar to real weapons. Hell, we produced a gun basically that is exactly what a bolter is, firing rocket guided miniature grenades from a rifle, way back in Vietnam. The reason we didn't use them was because too much could go wrong. Its kinda funny that anything that isn't like, The Expanse immediately gets disqualified from being scifi, because there's _some_ elements that belong in fantasy. Sure, okay, granted. But there's a lot that belong in scifi. Moving faster than light by moving into a dimensional tunnel that burrows around planets and stars and obstacles is a pretty damn scientific scifi concept. The Force is mystical. Mother Talzin and the Nightsisters use the Force through magic. That doesn't mean Star Wars isn't scifi, its science, fiction. Hell, The Culture has a gun in it that instead of producing bullets, or lasers, produces bombs, dumps floods onto people, teleports them twenty thousand feet into the air. When pointed at a city, it will produce nuclear hellfire, or volcanic eruptions, or earthquakes, whatever it wants to destroy the target. Still a very solid scifi setting with a hell of a lot of hard science including AI so intelligent they outstrip the capabilities of a matrioshka brain as babysitters for the dumb humans who don't know what they're doing.

@@nuclearsimian3281 You raise some good points. But I would rebut by saying that there is more than one category of "science fiction". The term is actually super broad and doesn't really define the specifics of the genre very well. In academics at least, there are a number of different categories that all have distinctive features. For example, the category of "speculative fiction" deals with using science and fact to predict future technologies and sciences. A good example of this is 20,000 leagues under the sea - the book. It uses hard scientific fact to explain the existence of a monstrous submarine ship (at the time -1870- submarines were like 4 people max and couldn't dive deep). But in the novel Jules Verne envisions many future aquatic technologies like modern dive suits, spear guns, and the future of submarine travel itself. Another category what I would call, "true science fiction", also uses hard scientific evidence but remains set within the bounds of technology today. The best example I could think of now is Contagion. No need to really explain this one. It wasn't even speculative at the time (that was how bio-hazardous outbreaks were dealt with and what could happen if things got out of hand). The fiction of the film comes from the severity and dramatization of the narrative. Both of the above examples would be considered Hard Sci-Fi (where scientific fact is used as a narrative element), but Star Wars would be considered Soft Sci-Fi (which, again, vague term, but where the science is kind of thrown out the window in favor of the fiction) [think Star Wars, Star Trek, Blade Runner, Cyberpunk -although those last two are becoming more of a reality]. Star Wars would fall into the Soft Sci-Fi category of "science fantasy" (or more specifically "space fantasy"/"space western"). Nothing in Star Wars is based on any scientific fact. It's all techno/space mumbo-jumbo (like artificial gravity plating). It may have technology like lasers and engines and rockets, but nothing follows the laws of physics and everything is explained within the universe's lore and narrative. There is no real "science" happening anywhere. You mentioned hyperspace in your arguments... Within Star Wars it is considered science, but there is no evidence to back it up in reality. Furthermore, the Jedi, Sith and the Nightsisters are all referenced as wizards, sorcerers and witches harnessing a mystical power (all things found in fantasy, not science). The 'sci-fi' elements in Star Wars tends to lean to the space fantasy lore. Beyond the surface level "sci-fi" elements, the narrative structure of the movie (the first one from 1977) was far different from the "sci-fi" movies at the time. It was dramatic, and often operatic (especially with John Williams' score). In fact, I have a book that rewrites the original script as a Shakespeare play, and it works really well and is a blast to read. The film was revolutionary in nearly every consumer industry. Anyways, there is so much to say about sci-fi and too much to say about Star Wars alone. You are right, Star Wars is science fiction. I won't argue with you about that. But the term "sci-fi" itself is flawed in that it is too inclusive of films with few similarities between their science and fiction elements. I like to label genres and films more specifically, for example I like to at leasd distinguish if a film is Soft or Hard sci-fi . Sci-fi is a large and complex genre of film and media and I hope this helps to clear up some of the confusion. If you want to chat more about it I would love to. I like to hear how other people interpret movies and other media (and I can put my degree to good use ;p)

@@jacobr7740 whats the book called? It sounds really interesting

Tell that to Boba Fett (fought Vader twice in lightsaber combat and lived)

@@galaxytater2566 Only agree somewhat. Boba fett is a Mandalorian which are among the most skilled warriors in the galaxy. Many Jedi were killed in the Mandalorian wars, their combat is business, they are lile super soldiers with way better combat ability then regular Joe. They even based the clones off of Jango and in essence Boba. So can hardly say he is a slouch.

until.... Finn

@@oishii5087 New trilogy sucks ass. They may as well of hyperspaced through the death star too with any ship to destroy it according to the new trilogies logic.

Well the thing is general grievous is a cyborg half machine alien monster with super strength and not a human lol even without force grievous can use it thanks to his cybernetics and alien strength

@@markjosephlagmay9371 You don't need a ton of strength either. The Mandalorian uses the dark saber, which is a lightsaber. He isn't force sensitive and is just a human.

​​@@jonathangriffith4863Also in the Clone Wars, Ahsoka had her lightsaber stolen by a thief. The thief, while not as effectively, was able to use her lightsaber as well.

@@dhgmrz17 Yeah. The thief not being able to wield it well was just lack of training though. Really all the force helps with when using a lightsaber is deflecting/destroying shots.

@@jonathangriffith4863 Dark Saber isnt a lightsaber

Yea the whole thing with the dark saber was just WEIRD. Like they LITERALLY made it up at the last second. Pre-Visla, Maul, and even Gideon used the saber just fine. Then all the second it weight like a sack of bricks when Mando picks it up and that other Mandalorian.

Darksaber, before all this prequel lore BS, was a novel from 1995. The Hutts rebuilt just the superlaser from the OG Deathstar and called it the Darksaber.

@@billybones6463 Yep Filoni and Favro just steal stuff from the EU and bastardize it.

@@noahsmith1053 not mando is mentioned to be weird in the rebels show also you expect the people who used it before rebels would have guilt? bought the only guilt maul has is for his brother and for not killing kenobi

While this is correct and it does also somewhat apply to the dark saber what the last explanation refers to is actually just lightsaber lord in general

No, its the opposite. Since all lightsabers have the same magnetic field they repel each other. If they didn't repel then they would pass right through each other because they are both made of plasma.

@@dizzy916 but then they'd bounce off of eachother

the lore is dumb

There’s also the version of lightsabers where if you don’t have the force it’s really heavy

But that would make a non force user way more dangerous than a force user.

@@JBoxy7 the problem is that at the same time, the weight of a lightsaber when attuned also helps you keep from cutting yourself, see mando as his introduction with the book of boba fett, because they do not feel the weight of the blade, and along with that (something I forgot to mention) where the blade is, they are prone to cutting themselves, that and also force wireless have minor precognition

@@Palpinator225 if they're just straight up unable to learn the force and therefore gain weight in the blade then there will be non force users who will train to use a lightsaber specifically with no weight.

Why didn’t mandalorians win then 🥱 Checkmate

@@Jetrules231 They did win against the Jedi, drove all of them off Mandalore. They lost against the Empire.

@@FredrickTesla the jedi won the mandalorian war. Also, that shit was kotor. Not canon

@@Jetrules231 You believe in a canon where Luke attempted to kill his nephew because he had the possibility of becoming evil, and where Palpatine survived the Death Star and manifested an entire Fleet of planet killing ships out of his ass. You don't get to lecture others on what is and isn't canon. Revanites aren't Jedi, so no, the Jedi didn't win the Mandalorian Wars.

@@FredrickTesla palpatine died. That was a clone, and why he was hooked to that machine Luke was traumatized all to hell, his reaction to the possibility of another dark lord was reasonable The jedi who sided with revan were just rogue jedi Lucas said your shit isn’t canon either. Only his movies and clone wars were Disney at least OWNS Star Wars, so they can do what they please with their property. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it didn’t happen

Han Solo used Luke’s saber in Empire as well. Turned it on, killed a Tan-Taun, and turned it off.

@@briansilva3344 i was gonna correct you on how that scene went down, then I realized that is cringe

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Thats the thing cad and ura sing did the same and it's why the third explanation makes more sense jedi and sith do years of training to control it because if the weights focused in the hilt that means when the lightsaber makes contact with a blaster bolt,another lightsaber with out proper training or control the damn things gonna fly out of the persons hand or they'll swing to hard and might injure themselves or someone close to them

@@meshybb don't worry I have no self esteem I got your back.

🤣 for real

Fits perfectly

I dunno, something tells me that this 4'9" tall, fedora owning, sword swinging star wars fan has never had a girlfriend.

the last one was making fun of the darksaber

​@@masonhill5157 yeah they really fumbled what a lightsaber is in the mandalorian didn't they

@@maestrofeli4259 that was book of boba fett but yeah, they did

@@maestrofeli4259 that was book of boba fett but yeah, they did

@@ne12follow to me BoBF doesn't exist, episodes 5 & 6 are just the mandalorian season 2.5

You also see tensing in the muscles of people when they block blaster shots and the blade moving slightly I think it's like you said and doesn't have weight but simultaneously follows the law of conservation of energy

Actually, both the blaster and lightsabers hitting each other have a reason, and it's the fact that they have magnetic fields! When 2 lightsabers hit, the have a chance to lock, as the fields entangle, they also repel blaster bolt for the same reason and they can't cut through electrified stuff! So unless that wall has a strong current, it will go right through it (except the handle, of course!) Edit: also the fields repel, so it's why the blades seem to bounce sometimes

​@dario castello or maybe they bounce because it's two plastic and metal props hitting each other. 😉

@@TalonsRebellion that too

@@koolaidjammer7108well that’s because lightsabers and blaster bolts are kept compact (as their nature as a plasma makes their particles not want to be close) by magnetic fields generated by the weapon. Striking something causes the field to disperse and the plasma goes boom, but when two magnetic fields interact they repel each other especially in the case of what is likely a very concentrated field.

I doubt that. Maul got cut in half. He should've died regardless. We got more good content out of it though.

Obi-Wan: *Flails like a child* Darth Maul: *Rolls eyes, casually murders him with actual lightsaber skill*

ok but the way jedi and sith swing it around outside of a fight literally isn’t physically possible without some form of mass, flourish requires the user to follow the weight of the blade and without it they’d cut themselves

If you need the oforce to control it effectively... does that mean Grevious is Force Sensitive?

@@Vedrlaufnir No it means he's such a badass he don't need no Force

@@Nunya_Bidness_53 So you don't need the force to control the pulsating plasma, but rather to use the whole weapon itself? Then what gives the beam it's form and weird material properties?

You don't need the force to wield a lightsaber. There are plenty of non-force-sensitive lightsaber wielders and it's never been indicated that the force is needed to shape the blade

@@Vedrlaufnir No what the lore says is that being force sensitive helps in using the blade to its full potential in order yo pull off the insane movements. Grievous is a cyborg so his robotics allows him to keep up with the speed of jedi wielding a lightsaber.

proceeds to throw it off the cliff behind him

Bro shut up 🤨

Just need a good blaster at your side.

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yes, respect lightsabers from fortnite

In star wars:rebels that is actually the case! light saber has a magnetic-like effect making the use of heavy swings in duels necessary

@@AkimboInteractive It works with both. Weight allows for the styles and techniques that wouldn’t be possible without weight; while the pull allows for lightsaber clashes without sliding down the saber itself.

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Or just dual wield them and turn one of them it off and on again to pass through their blade and cut them in half.

​@@puppytooth.v6502 But if your blade doesn't clash with theirs, their blade also cuts you in half. To be honest, I find lightsaber battle explaining much easier to fathom than space battle explaining (like why not just ram a hyperspeed autonomous spaceship through every star destroyer?!)

Except he was tired from being in the snow for hours and was out of breathe. It was nothing to do with emotions since that wasn't even canon at the time.

@@SirDankleberry what kind of weight would that small metal cylinder need to have to become that much of a hassle just because the person is extremely tired. han wasn't struggling even half as much to stand up and walk. and just to add water to the wheel, han may not be a jedi or directly wield the force, but he's force sensitive, this affects his reflexes, his intuition, and most likely would affect how he interacts with the light saber and how it reacts to him (if we keep the varying physical properties hypothesis).

@@niscent_ Lightsabers reacting to emotions wasn't canon when they filmed Empire. It's a weapon, not a mood ring.

@@SirDankleberry since nothing in that movie had been established about light sabers, cannons can be retroactive... just like when a movie saga pull a "he was a bady all along" in a later movie. the question is just: if we rewatch the movies with that later cannon in mind, is there any incoherence that we can't explain? they could even say han was a jedi all along, that would be a bad narrative decision that makes the whole story messy with no other purpose, but that would be coherent. it's never a good start when a writer starts to pull more and more "all along" to make a bit of retroactive explanation coherent, not because it doesn't work, but because it sucks for telling a story.

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That would be the least wizard thing one could have.

Every Mandalorian who has wielded a lightsaber/Darksaber

Sabine did just fine in Rebels with Ezra's lightsaber and will aparently use it again in the Ahsoka show.

The in universe explanation is that it does indeed have weight. In fact its normally too unwieldy for anyone to use properly without force powers, think of it like a chainsaw, the teeth are meant to pull it into the wood for easier cutting, a lightsaber would have the same type of effect, essentially "Dragging" You however you swung it and taking just as much if not more force to stop Akin to stopping a hammer midswing. But if you have force powers and it's your lightsaber it will become easier for you to wield over time as your connection grows, that's why you see Jedi able to fight so gracefully and whatnot. While Sith appear to always have heavy handed fighting styles, probably because they're just forcing the lightsaber to do as they want so they feel the full weight of a Saber in comparison to a Jedi.

I have always thought of it as a front heavy weapon with the heavier components near the blade end. Flicking would be possible but would continue the first arc and possibly cut you as the hilt continued past where you wanted it to stop. Like attaching a half pound weight to a light handle.

Yeah I don't usually have issues with flashing lights and that still gave me a headache Plus there's no warning on it wither

@@cinnamonkittamon oh well. If you seize you seize

There are too many versions of how the lightsaber works but if you tried to combine them you would get a weapon that is light for force users and heavy for those that aren’t, has recoil, and Is attracted to other lightsabers

@@nightmarexgaming120 I mean that kinda makes sense

The reason for the attraction and "pull" as you described it is mostly explained by the blade being enveloped in an EM field that keep it in shape. This EM field is also stated as the reason behind lightsabers burning through materials and cauterising wounds as the energy core itself isn't hot. If it was, the ambient heat of plasma alone would fry off the hands and/or face of the person using it.

On the topic of Emotion: Yes, Kyber Crystals are attuned to the force so your emotional state plays a role in its output. However some lightsabers use synthetic crystals to focus the blade. These became common after the Jedi Purge because Palpatine had the mines of Ilum stripped for his death star laser

Lucas said the blades are weighty. Bam, argument over, God has spoken

There isn’t. The blades are weightless. What makes them effective is a trained force user, or someone who’s had experience with some form of sword training. They don’t feel the weight of the blade, just the hilt, but force sensitives have enhanced awareness, so they know where the saber is at all times.

@@iamchrispaezjr The blades are not weightless, as brought up IN the video if the blade was weightless you could just flick it around like a flashlight and kill anything.