We Asked a Sword Expert to Make a Realistic Lightsaber Fight 

Ha, not just me then. Also, would’ve been nice if the sparks bounced off the players a little, but you can’t have everything, eh. Still looked very, very nice.

After all the cutting through they did, you would think that would've too.

omg hard2hurt + corridor colab?

@@epsilon3569 I was waiting for that to happen

Yeah, I saw that and went 'wait a second, wouldn't that have just sunk through his body?'

Real funny, do we really think they know rvb?

@@eliwilson1146 lol

@@eliwilson1146 B.U.L.L Tech nice

Lmfaoo

*Sees the words "energy sword" and "key"* Me: Or it's a key all the time and when you stick it in someone, it unlocks their death

But I thought spinning was a good trick

@@joev1083 spinning is a trick , but in a fight only reason you spin if you want a complicated suicide.

@@danyyilbun6736 they were referencing a star wars meme

The “God damn millennial” look

@@danyyilbun6736 That would be a funny way to go out

I clocked that too. I was thinking 😳 ‘bruh… youre about to be 2’

Yeah I seen the teacher just disappeared twice and the light saber should have cut him in 2 for added affects: but maybe thy are designed to not cut the owner

The acting wasnt good at fucking all

*dueling

In modern speech that would be "just don't get hit lol".

@@randomicko542 More specifically "use your footwork to stay out of range, make your opponent miss and cut them down"

I think George Lucas would love it. Although I think Disney would try to sue it into the ground

@@abyssdreamer6286 they can just not call it Star Wars 💀

Hear hear!

We need a series

A little bit of mixture of both styles of choreographies, But still maintain some realistic of it. I saw a bit of authentic kendo-jutsu in there Somewhere. Your theory is Impressive,.....Most Impressive.........Keep it Up y'all.😎☺️

I was thinking the same thing. That last sentence "so, do you wanna join?" is totally asking for a series.

I would binge that! WE NEED A SERIES

you and hard2hurt should react to some sword or weapon fighting scenes and rate them on accuracy to real life, also love ur content, thanks for putting urself out there for us

You plan on getting killed that badly? Lol, just kidding of course.

I think this video needs a Sensei Seth breakdown! Love your content. I always get a good laugh :)

If Annakin had that revive machine he wouldn't have needed to go to the dark side,

Or a day at the office...Need a brain reset machine at times.

toooo be fair with the lightsaber duels making you cringe, which I completely understand for swordfighting on our world, you’ll see a lot of people writing this, but jedi do have the force which means they can somewhat sense what the enemy is going to do next, which means much faster reaction times. So inherently it’s going to be different than human swordfighting because their abilities are different compared to real humans. But of course me with no swordfighting experience can’t say much about swordfighting compared to you, but just felt like putting this here

@@kevinl2482 That is fair, sadly for me I when I see a movie of any kind im paying more attention to the technical details then the story anymore, I fear banality has taken its hold on me.

@siv_mist I love that all you bring up is spinning when I didn’t mention spinning once. I wasn’t even thinking about spinning when I wrote that. Also trying to make someone feel bad by trying to make them feel stupid(your entire last paragraph) is not a good way to go, my friend

@siv_mist lol technicality I'm the one who said spinny star wars crap, and I haven't taken offense to anything any of you have replied with. When it boils down to it it's all fiction and awesome not something to go to arms over. I just thought it was funny when the senior student did that, since I've done that lol.

@siv_mist And what makes you think I took offense. So many assumptions. Notice how I talk about the part that makes NeoCrypter cringe, not laugh. I'm sure he does cringe at that and he probably does laugh at the other things but the spinny stuff was not what I was referring to, and I feel like that is not the only thing that makes him cringe. The argument is not stupid until you expand it as if I'm trying to explain everything with it which I assumed I didn't need to clarify I wasn't trying to explain everything with it.

💯 I grew up on Ryan vs Dorkman,

I loved how after the slash he kept spinning as he fell down

That was teaching the stakes... and it was a wonderful visual language of "cut the shit, this ain't a dance off bro."

It's a cool moment that shows character. Oh and it was freaking hilarious as well.

I found it to be a hamper on the intensity and weight that the first one shot in the behind the scenes fight completely encapsulated. Still a fun video overall though.

every time i watch lightsaber fights in the movies, i was like "why are there so much spinning, sword spinning, swinging off the target and wasting time not hit the opponent's vitals? just kill 'em already"

Exactly what I was thinking. Tried to make it more realistic and then missed something so obvious.

Yeah I think that’s the one more noticeable mistake

Well maybe it did cut him and the guy just stitched him back together

They probably noticed in post but then what can you do

Just before the teacher took the hit, the students' hair got singed. Guess keeping that after words when they congratulated the student for the win was a bit much, but something I noticed. Yes, noticed the blades not casting light on the background too, but someone commented on that already.

They actually spoke about this, a while ago. They gave up on that path, exactly because of all the bullshit and the toxic creative manipulation of Hollywood. They just want to do what they want to do, and it shows. Freakin' amazing, Corridor Digital forever :)

you also have to remember that those who wield lightsabers are force sensitives meaning to normal people their forms may appear risky but this safe style of saber combat shown above is gonna get them killed very quickly against sith lords Damnit wish i was a movie director

At least, once they were done testing the waters. Also, when the student got cocky, and started doing all of those flourishes, he was subsequently punished for doing so.

@@MGrey-qb5xz The "safe style" would still be effective, as their force enhanced reflexes would build into the defensiveness, but you are right that that style isn't as necessary for them

Lol I thought I was Tripping when he disappeared

17:06 as well

I saw it at 17:05

He Batman'd them.

Holy F... I was really drawn into the fight that I didn't notice Brett being THE Jedi at back :D

I think this could actually be a good intro for a much longer film

And with much better stories to tell than the big studios approved copycats :-)

They should make a fan film, plot device is that healing thing, set around 10000 years after the films.

Every time I watch these I'm reaffirmed that the big production studios are so stuck in their ways, they have actually become horrible at their jobs. The fact that a ~5 man team can put together a scene which visually (sounds was pretty lacking, but this is a team of VFX guys, so expected) challenges any of the big Hollywood studios multi-year, multi-million dollar productions is a crying shame. Imagine what studios could do with that budget if they promoted innovation and creativity over finding the safest buck?

No. Nothing that wasn't done in the fights with Dooku in terms of movement and style. This was inconsistent and annoying. They forgot that the swords were energy based and had them lay on cloth without burning it and produce silly sparks just because they had a spark toy they wanted to use. Introduce realism in one part and ignore it in another. As a fencer and Star Wars fan I was hoping for more.

@@timsbird1971 🤓

@@just.do.it.do.it.2908 🗿?

@@ZaborAmango bro, wtf, your profile picture.

​@@timsbird1971First off you're being insanely picky, second off as a fellow fencer I quite enjoyed the fight.

As soon as I saw the resurrection of the fallen student, it no longer felt anyone's in danger. Another stupid concept from a hollywood-esque indie filmmaker.

@@Waterbug1591 Pain isn't a good enough motivator?

@@Waterbug1591 It's a school. Experiencing death battle. They don't want to kill the students but give them the experience, and it's explained what each of those deaths/defeats meant towards the progress of the student. Although yes some schools of sword fighting would do a life and death battle to determine the successor of the school years ago.

@@lebotix2533 The conversation between the two bystanders is literal cringe. Experiencing death and coming back from death actually removes your fear of death, there's nothing at stake here, keep dying and come back because any grave mistakes are forgivable, right?

@@Waterbug1591 That's a slippery slope. Who's to say the students will equivocate this test as being a true life or death situation? The theory makes sense. The student needs to learn the right balance of offense and defense and learn from their mistakes.

I was hoping someone else noticed he was missing.

@@sleePerCore lol, i was thinking the same thing

true, just like how the v "wanishes"

I noticed that too

You need to vanish half of your w.

I saw that fan film also but I watched so many, I forgot the name of it. If the sabers can turn on and off fast enough, that would be my whole tactic. LOL

@@genericdolphin9242 Try "Ryan vs Dorkman" or another of the films by those guys. I think they used that move in one of their videos and the choreography is great.

There are a few dueling styles which actually cover this within legends. But it is known to be only for the most skilled, there is also a style which one changes their blade length during combat as well as wielding multiple blades through the force.

First episode of the Star Wars: Visions Episodes show exactly that tactic =)

@@g0rn1st I dont think its the first episode, because for some reason I thought it was too and went to check! Ep 7 - The Elder, has the jedi kill the darksider when he switches his lightsaber off, steps out of the way of the sith lightning his saber had been blocking, and then ignites his saber again as he stabs the darksider. As that what you were thinking of?

Yeah I mean I think they did that just to show how stupid all the flashy crap in the star wars movies are - otherwise they'd have to have like 6 sword fighters to stroll in one after the other.

I kinda dissagree the resurrection part cause mostlythe lore they put up wouldn't make sense if it didnt doesn't mean they could have tried more like a normal fight of bad and good stuff but the story would be hard to set up

@@inochifumetsu is correct I think. The resurrection + janitor x mysterious dude bits were for the narrative. It was all about telling the same story about their idea that the behind the scenes bit covered.

@@inochifumetsu tbf the flashy stuff isn't all bad

@@novathepug6692 It's good in terms of "giving the audience something cool to look at", but the whole point of the video was about realism.

Exactly.

@@inzane1260 I'm going to act like you didn't just say something so ridiculously stupid. First of all, how many lightsabers have you watched be thrust into solid doors and start turning them into molten metal? Second, the narrator of this very video said "million degree energy sword"...that's why I put in quotes. So maybe you should reflect on those two things.

@@yobogoya4367 what a burn

@@inzane1260 Your brain doesn't generate any heat.

@@inzane1260 Its true how many scenes in star wars have doors being turned to molten lava or whatever it is by the heat.

I noticed the burning sound effect, guess it requires some bit of force to actually cut trough, otherwise it just burns the surface, remember it doesn't have mass, maybe it needs some greater force than just gravity to cut something with actual mass...

At 17:00 the sensei dissapear

I noticed the same thing. Still an awesome film.

@@majoras2700 its supposed to be liquid plasma which is so hot that it melts metal doors so even without force lightsaber should melt its way through his chest and floor even if its activated

@@matijaradulovic422 If that's true, you're right, but then why aren't they called plasma sabers?

I've been pooping since I was born and reading comments on the internet since dial-up. Thank you for bringing these together in the best way to date.

@@robliefeld2646 soooo... You're like an expert on pooping....a master, even!!!

@@Supernaught00 He's a mass-turd-debater.

@@barence321 AHHhhhhh. Yes, that makes sense.

@@Supernaught00 form one, Brown Rope style. Form two, Spray and Pray Style...

Very well done holding back the resurrection aspect until we saw it.

Yeah I enjoyed getting the whole package but I felt the bts fight using the one shot conveyed the most emotion.

That scene honestly cracked a huge smile on my face.

As far as I got it, it's his training partner / collegue, the trainer is the man in black. However, the scene was brilliant, especially the killed dude's face as he does his dying spin. =)

@@marcfuchs6938 the owner of the school specifically says "right now the teacher controls both" pertaining to the guy with the yellow sword. The guy with the blue sword is the guy being assessed. but yeah its was a great sword fight.

then again, for a youtube video to look better than billion dollar movies is pretty insane.

A lightsaber works with a dead man switch so when not pressed, it turns off immediately.

From an optical view, theoretically the heat of the plasma could lead to refraction leading to interference looking almost exactly like a shadow. Only problem is, that such interferences would make the shadow really flickery.

Now add in something like the Force and all of a sudden there's the potential for logical progression. Need space? You can leap backwards a dozen feet or so without flipping or turning your back on your opponent. Outmatched in swordsmanship? Fling some stuff at your opponent or temporarily blind them with some Force Lightning to the face.

I loved the moment at 8:08 where you see they tought about how it would look using lightsabers rather than conventional weapons as well. The guy in black is completely open to a coup d'estoc if we were using simple swords, and would have no range to wound the guy in white with an effective cut. BUT, these weapons don't need momentum, they melt your face off, so the guy in white has to retreat unless he wants his back cooked to a crisp. Historically, duels ended quite often in mutual injury. One lighter than the other. But with these, the wounds would be disastrous every time.

except when it is

@Jonathan Wolfe or if your using the momentum

It is not bad for suicide if you are a masochist....

Yup

The Indian martial art Kalaripayattu requires spinning your body as well as the weapon in order to generate enough physical momentum to break through your opponents defence. Often it is with short swords and rounded buckler shields.

Actually you have the beams oscillating at 2 different frequencies... so that's why they don't pass thru each other

@@Swanlord05 true but I wasn’t really talking about that, more so about why they use more power than is the necessary power needed to cut something, & that reason being exactly what you said- that the blades won’t pass through each other so they aren’t basing their power off the blades ability to cut, but off their opponents expected power as well

Also the blades have a gyroscopic force

Light is weightless, you really don't need to compensate for anything

@@nekoeye5284 yea ig I’m saying in this case how hard they’re swinging is irrelevant to the material of the blade, it’s instead directly related to the force being used by your opponent (especially assuming both blades are the same material)

Yes

I mean that's the only thing that got me. Exceptional video, just that seemed a particularly weird thing to leave on the editing room floor, otherwise a solid 11/10.

same here it killed the mood, also the perfect shirt when he stood up after the slash, and I noticed because they had the effort to burn the one of the student

im glad i wasnt the only one who saw haha, their cgi videos got me looking for stuff like that now haha

that oughta show up in a vid where they react to their past cgi

I see another mistake at 18:58. Teacher's lightsaber cuts off both of pupil's arms, even though the blade only really goes through one.

@@SirConto it looks like it, but to cut the left hand he has to go over the right hand first, and it looks like the blade only goes through the left one

There are also two continuity errors. At both 17:06 and 17:12, the teacher in the black suit is missing

@@grogcito my point is, it doesn't go through the right arm. When you look at it frame by frame ( ; and : keys on youtube) you can even see the blade move past the right hand already, missing it, before it falls off anyway.

I was going to point out the same thing.

defintely, maybe they ran over time?

are you sure the blade is touching his body? looks to me like like the hilt is in his hand, resting on his torso, still projecting the blade at an angle close to the body that doesn’t actually make contact… could be clearer tho

Looking for that comment!

this!! but at the same time, oh my god that was great !!!

Chill its not that impressive lmao

Fr I love this channel but I actually thought they should have focused more on the fight instead of all the creepy, lazy and frankly dumb plot devices.

@@buskool5491 actually it is

@@Lemash anyone could come up with that plot... it's literally just a futuristic sword fight academy using the most stereotype sci-fi elements

@@buskool5491 it's look like just a beginning, the potential is high

20:06

😅

and $500 light sabers

Was thinking the same thing lmao

In a world where movie cameras can cost in the six figures, $12K is cheap.

@@phanorkner truuue

I would've really liked there to be sustained clothing damage as the people were being stiched back together by the revivification machine

camp camp camp

that was my favourite bit of the whole thing. great idea

the fire was cool, but as soon as the beam comes out is corny and scuff lol...

The tool didn't look like it was engaging or manipulating anything at all and seemed cheesy to me. The effect from the sword was awesome.

Underrated reaction. I would love to see this as a series.

A series everyone would watch, far better than anything hollywood has put out in years

Same

Why would you lie about that?

I would love to see this

Somewhat. Still plenty of the same silliness the "expert" said he wanted to avoid.

they weight 1.5 kilo and literallty stick to each other like magnets

@@MrBottlecapBill Name them, then

@@MrBottlecapBill Like what?

@@boguszmakowski2357 lightsabers don't actually lock up, that's a common misconception

On sharps the edges do bite into one another so there isn’t much sliding up and down. I don’t know if that would also make it harder to withdraw the blade too

That's a good point. Would strong/weak apply to lightsaber blades? I think it would.

I can't remember if this was ever canon, but I once saw an explanation of the lightsaber as such :the lightsaber was controlled by a strong field to prevent the plasma from going anywhere. It's been a while, so don't quote me on this, but the lightsaber blade itself was the colored edge of the blade that formed a sort of hollow, stretched out loop that it was forced into by the magnetic field. This shape was because the plasma on the edge was constantly circulating in a loop like a sort of plasma chainsaw blade. The space in the center, the white plasma, was caused by the field being far stronger on the outside edge than the inside, so the heat of the plasma caused the matter (usually air) inside the hollow blade to become plasma as well. The reason it was so difficult to cut down the blade towards someone's hand was because the fields would merge when colliding, rather then slide along. That combined with the fact the the field/shielding was much stronger towards the base of the blade meant that you couldn't just slide down along the blade easily and burn your opponent. In fact, the lightsaber blade didn't really touch the hilt, it floated right above the emitter disc of the hilt, which triggered the ignition and maintained the blade and field.

according to my understanding of electromagnetics you are very close to what should occur.. if anything i would imagine that depending on the ionic charges and the oscillations in each blade when blades lock they should be slowly pushed out to the ends of the blades or pulled toward the hilts could be pulled on one and pushed on the other depending on which side of the blade was contacted and which phase the blade was in when the impact took place...

@@camerapasteurize7215 That's correct yes. That, or at least a very similar explanation, was canon in the Expanded Universe, and I would think still is canon under Disney. The "magnetic" binds have always been a part of how lightsabers work.

yeah, it'd sell the message of the lightsabers being really powerful, if the strike between them was a distracting loud sound and a bright light

Yeah that's the thing, they're not just pure light, they're plasma contained in a magnetic field, they should be loud!

​@@Grove332 Why? Take two magnets of repelling polarity and push them together. Do they make a sound? Take two candles and bring the flames together. Do they make a sound? Honestly, I like the quiet because you can hear the fighters. The noise of their exertion is what helps sell it.

@@cryofpaine Turn on an induction surface on a stove, does it make noise? Does a house-fire make noise? (well in that case it's a chemical reaction, but yes, fire can be extremely loud) Very hot plasma confined to a small space would be loud.

​@@Grove332 "Turn on an induction surface on a stove, does it make a noise?" No. "Does a house-fire make noise?" You've already answered that. Crackling and popping of the wood as fibers reshape and break, water in the wood vaporizes, etc. There might be a rush of air as it is heated by the blade. But plasma itself doesn't sound like anything specific, nor do electromagnetic fields. Because neither of these are actually moving the air molecules inherently.

Unique way to look at it but valid non the less. Well said

Agreed. If it had been any other lightsaber fight, I may have noticed that, but wouldn’t have been so bothered. The emphasis these guys put on how dangerous these weapons are really affected my reaction to that mistake.

I didn’t think about that

Good eye

Or maybe they did it on purpose to check how many would have been bothered by that 🤔🤔

By prequel you mean sequel, since it was a laugh at Rey's handling of a light saber

@@ldgarius No, definitely the prequels, they showed clips of some of Obi-Wan's fights where they're both just standing there spinning their lightsabers.

You're not alone either on that sound design. It was weird at first but now it's amazing. You really feel that *thunk.*

@@Anaerin They were both feinting, albeit in the most majorette way possible. Come on, years later and people STILL don't get that?

@@harvsthenerve4136 it looked stupid, though. If people still don’t get it YEARS later then I can hardly call it a choreography win

Oh God no. Not until they get better at all the other pieces that are NOT VFX. Their storytelling and acting is not strong enough for full length

@@squidge903 then I shall wait

I feel like their youtube channel letting them try new things all the time is what keeps their ideas and creations fresh, if they had to go into full production for 2 years on a show you wouldnot get such varied content on here. Their role is to inspire aspiring vfx artists to go into the industry or create their own stuff, not to become another production house that gets burned out by Hollyweird.

​@@squidge903 Instead of writing a long comment I sum it up to one question. If one using force can predict the near future, see around them self with the force and can boost up their physical strength (super jump for examples) how would the fight actually look? This shot looked like 2 humans without force fighting :D

@@xezzee Well one thing is certain. They still wouldn't be doing spins & flips while wielding their saber like a polearm. If anything the force would show you why NOT to do that.

Ok

You’re incredible

the level of cringe was incredible yes.

Didn’t expect to see you here

Lmao it's wubby

what about 19:40 the light sabers are a light source, yet they have shadows :P

@@FlaggWoW You're missing the part where the shadows are being cast in real life by light sources that are producing real light. They didn't edit in the entirety of the light coming from the blades, they just amplified it.

@@a-blivvy-yus I'm aware but if they're going to this extent of graphical effects they can edit out a shadow.

@@FlaggWoW They could, yes. But why? A real light source cast the shadow, so it's not unrealistic for a light source to cast a shadow. Therre's no reason to edit it out.

Haha just said that too. It should have just fallen to the floor through his body.

thought the same!

Beat me to the comment lol. Definitely a “Wait. Wut?” moment 😂

They, uh, used the force. ; P

Team kill is turned off lol

Hate to be a discord user but he made the proto Saber the difference is the proto saber has a satchel or side pack

I mean its canonically plasma in a magnetic field So not actually fire at all

@@togiisuperheavytank Yes and they point that out in the Hacksmith's video too so.

Why does everyone forget about Alex labs?

@@maybeharold fire is plasma

i noticed that too lol

@@aa1k same. It was very noticeable but it didn't affect my enjoyment of it

I spotted that too lol

me too

I was just about to post this. Lol

Friendly fire is turned off

I thought the same

@@JKTCGMV13 Teacher has that Skyrim kid protection

@@matteo-er1lm it's a wee bit sussy

@@JKTCGMV13 Yeah! Um... no, there's no friendly setting on that thing. That's the concern you need to have with a light saber that you never see in the movies, you can cut yourself in half with your own blade.

i saw it just resting on his belly and was very amused

Yeah 17:12 It is quite amusing how they overlooked that

Slightly harder to spot: the stabs and cuts didn't affect his clothes.

20:16 the shot before this shows two holes in his robe, now there's one 🤷 I love it but yeah there were some really noticable mistakes

@@kadenswords7926 tbh i don't mind the clothing thing because that's SERIOUSLY a whole nother level of stop and go filming and hand done effects. the belly rest tho.. lol