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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wayside" data-source="post: 2282512" data-attributes="member: 8394"><p>We don't have any equivalent style of combat though. The weightlessness of sabers, coupled with the fact that they can cut someone in half without much application of pressure, would make realistic saber battles mostly uninteresting, from a spectator's point of view. I think Ep III actually had the first realistic use of sabers so far in all of Star Wars, which was when Anakin cut off Dooku's hands, and then later when Obi-wan similarly removed one of Grevious'. They're light, they're fast, and you don't need strength to use them to maximum effect. So I can buy the objection to some of the choreography I guess (swinging at a defense that's already been raised and all), but if you really want to stake out that position why not go all the way and force the saber battles to be totally uninteresting? Realistically, you'd never see an exaggerated movement from a Jedi because they don't need to gather any momentum to do lethal damage, so a real saber fight wouldn't have anything in the way of broad swinging at all; it should stay mostly centered and consist of quick searching movements toward the other guy's hands.</p></blockquote><p></p>