Why are they aiming for each other's lightsabers instead of their bodies? Are they stupid?

You retarded, son?
Maul is trying to hit obi wan with every hit, obi wan is aiming for his saber to deflect the blows.

well why don't they just wear lightsaber armor and ram the enemies

Are you stupid? Maul is clearly swinging at his body but Obi-wan blocks in time. This is obvious from the very first second of your webm. Why did you slow it down only to still be unable to tell?

he's swinging his body around so his lightsaber meets obi's. it comes off as being incredibly choreographed.

It feels like an easy cheat code. There are so many ways to get in a hit.

Clearly from the results of the fight you posted, it isn't. It's for the same reason more people didn't do it irl.

he's swinging his body around

So he can use both sides of the lightsaber.

his lightsaber meets obi's

Obi-wan is just quick enough to block in time.

Maul was nowhere near Obi

didn't do it irl

Yea I understand in real life, but lightsabers are lightweight and you basically just need to touch somebody with it.

The best fight , Darth Maul vs Obi-Wan | Star Wars Rebels.

youtube.com/watch?v=jeG215-yu-k

it comes off as being incredibly choreographed.

The force is basically near future sight, The fight is basic choreographed with the aggressor aiming for the defender's reflexes to fail them.

Going step-by-step:

Obi-Wan's saber is high

Maul goes low, for his legs

Obi-Wan blocks the strikes

they part

Maul attacks again

strikes high again a few times, then suddenly swipes low

Obi-Wan jumps over it

Maul goes for his head when he lands

Obi-Wan blocks it

Seems fine to me. There are actual issues with the prequels but this fight is not one of them.

Not everyone is ambidextrous and you still need to have some force behind your swings. Someone could easily knock the damn thing out of your hand by putting extra force behind their swing.

This but unironically. In these fights they have given themselves completely to the Whills.

the issue is at the end where it looks like Maul is just letting Obi hit his saber for funsies.

this fight is not one of them.

The fight where Maul doesn't attempt to use the force to push Obi-wan off the ledge he's holding on to and then lets him jump over him without even attempting to swipe at him?

They are trying to break each other’s stance. Overcommitting to a fatal strike leaves you vulnerable to being parried.

holy shit
would this work

Failing to block even a single attack will result in your immediate death.

I guess the force told Obi Wan to start blocking even though his enemies back was completely open.

my opponent is on the ground and helpless

better jump over him and swing for his lightsaber

Why don’t they just give some soldiers normal guns?
All the blasters seem to be slow moving and slow firing, and yea while a lightsaber would probably just turn bullets into dust I fail to see how they can block all of them from a fast firing machine gun.

It's a tv program. A movie.

this would make sense if Maul wasn't wielding a two-bladed lightsaber

Forget them and their safety, they can all die for all I care. I want my laser sword fights to look cool!

So many absolute retards who ITT who don't realise it's not a good idea to let your opponent hit you with his literal laser weapon that slices through flesh like paper

Light sabers are not weightless and have a centrifugal force that makes it hard to start and stop them. Mauls blades are about 2 lbs obi is 2.75 I want say. It's confined plasma in a series of loops spinning. Neither maul nor obi needs to see each other. The blades will stick because of the magnetic fields if you try basic thrust and get parried/deflected at basic angle and counter thrust means your dead because they own the centerline. The blades will bounce like magnets if slammed on each other. The blades will pick up kind of like a static charge during fights and start glowing, a way they deal with it is flourishing or some spins which takes some off and gets your 3 lb plasma blade going where you want.
Maul keeps trying to bait obi into certain strokes so he can get him with the bow. Notice how obi wan missies the blade on purpose before they separate. If obi goes for a check he lowers the blade and it gets wacked and maul goes up top with the other end. Eventually obi wan figures out her needs to get close to win and mail kind of does a cheap shot to get him disarmed.

Obi was surprised by maul doing it because he was pissed and he didn't realize maul wants obi wan alive. That's why he's standing above him waiting on him to concede. Maul is basically slightly above obi in the fighting but no where as good as a force user and he lacks any real defense b

See
Maul is baiting him. Sequel star wars fights in unedited form are iron clad once you get the rules

I hate the prequels so much. It's a sword and you swing it and it kills someone, it's not a fucking dance show.

I honestly can't tell if you're fucking with me

youtu.be/b5QiVgVtFxU?si=GkXu--tif0gAdamy

Just watch. I told you the general rules and physics.

It would be extremely painful.

The choreography of this scene is unreal. I also live the side flip Ray Park pulls off later in the scene

Lightsaber wounds are rarely fatal.

It looks more like Obiwan tries to block Mauls light saber attacks.

It’s very much an efficiency thing. As far as the movies have shown, blasters are easy to handle seemingly no kick, and have either infinite or incredibly massive ammo capacity. Slug throwers are a thing in universe and can in fact counter a lightsaber, it’s just the list of issues that you get are vastly outweighed by how easy it is to use and make a blaster. If it’s Jedi you wanted to kill specifically, HK-47 has you covered on that.

People who like the prequels and sequels will defend literally anything, it doesn't matter what it is. They defended this shit when it was released. I remember.

No they didn't. Watch again. When Luke is going apeshit in RotJ, he's aiming for Vader's saber the entire time.

Why are lightsabers treated as if they're weighted? You'd think a fencing style would make more sense.
Eh, I guess it's just a gimmick.

FUCK YOU ILL DEFEND ANYTHING NOT NEGATIVE YOU NORMIE FUCK GET OFF MY WEBSITE WITH YOUR NORMIE BULLSHIT TROLL ATTITUDE WE ARE FREAKS HERE YOU NORMIE SCUM
YOU ARE ALL JADED AND TROLLS AND BORING APATHETIC BULLSHIT
GET THE FUCK OUT!

it served no practical use whatsoever so they had to come up with the bullshit excuse of kylo using a cracked kyber crystal that wasn't compatible with the saber so the two smaller parts are "vents for the energy being released from the crystal" or some shit

ALL OF YOU BORING NORMAL FAGGOTS
WITH YOUR NEGATIVE JADED APATHY AND YOUR ANGER AND SADNESS GET THE FUCK OUT
YOU ARE NORMAL. YOU ARE TROLLS. YOU ARE INSINCERE. THIS IS A FREAK SHOW GET THE FUCK OUT. WE ARE THE OPPOSITE OF YOU BORING FUCKING NORMAL TROLLS

ITS LIKE YOU FELL OFF AN ASSEMBLY LINE FOR MUTE COLORED MEDIOCRITY

It doesn't matter whether it has a use or not, you'd cut your fucking hand off trying to use it. Imagine using a normal sword and if the guard touches you at any point it cuts off your hand.

yeah that's kinda my point

god bless hayden christensen, he doesnt get enough praise for his dedication to the choreographies

why not just use normal bullets against a jedi

Why did no one do this with blaster shot prior Disney, then?

Because they just deflected them

They all get slaughtered to the point of almost going extinct by a bunch of clones shooting them with lasers so I think bullets would be quite effective.

they could have just had it actually block another lightsaber at some point
there you go, the use

Because disney is the laziest of fanfiction protected by IP legal rights thaumaturgy.
Why have a death star when you can just hyperspeed a ship into a planet?

It doesn't matter if it has any use

W-well what if you used it for this

Prequel/sequel fags are pathetic

could have

why didn't they then? not once over the span of 3 movies they didn't think to do this?

Because disney is the laziest of fanfiction protected by IP legal rights thaumaturgy.

You don't get my point.
I am asking why no stopped blasters with the force, if it works with bullets?

Yo, chill with the revisionist criticism, senpai. The fight choreography in The Phantom Menace is masterful, and Obi-Wan and Maul weren’t just swinging their sabers like some duel of the fates to see who can knock the other’s weapon out of the way. They were trying to kill each other. It's a high-stakes, life-or-death battle where every move counts.

Obi-Wan wasn’t aiming at Maul’s lightsaber, he was trying to survive and take down one of the deadliest Sith in history. Maul’s got a double-bladedsaber, so yeah, there's gonna be some defensive moves and saber locks, but it’s all part of the strategy. Obi-Wan is playing smart, waiting for that one moment of weakness to exploit, which he does in the final jump.

The choreography is purposeful. It’s not about random flashy slashes—it’s a calculated, intense fight that highlights the differences in their skill and philosophies. Maul is ruthless and aggressive, while Obi-Wan is disciplined and patient. They’re not just twirling their lightsabers for fun—they’re fighting for their lives. So maybe stop nitpicking and appreciate the genius of that duel.

the amount of time the ref faced faggot leaves his back exposed is ungodly, in a real fight he would have gotten cut in half a lot of times lol.

this shot

Reminder when you see some zoomer say that Andor was boring, this is what they grew up watching. Be patient with them, it's not their fault. If anything you should blame George.

How do ballistic weapons change the equation at all? If you can catch a Jedi off guard like in the case of order 66, you can get the better of them, but if they’re expecting to be fired upon, they’re gonna be able to handle it. Doesn’t matter what gun you’re using. Blasters in Star Wars are generally shown to be more deadly than ballistic weapons too. One shot anywhere in center mass almost always kills.

Original interpretation of LS battles was more Kendo. Then Lucas sperged out and well full ninja back flipping pants on head retarded with the sequels. That's where the problem is.

Uhm the lighsaber dance choreography duels make sense because the Force allows them to predict the future and aim at each others' lightsabers and blah blah but if you just surprise them and shoot them in the back with a blaster they die since they didn't know you were gonna do it, damn Lucas is a genius ... woah...

Are you retarded or something kid.
Projectile weapons are worthless against opponents with telekinesis.

Just because you can predict that in the next second a squad of troopers are going to unleash a torrent of blaster fire on you means you can react to it or defend yourself from it. Order 66 works because the Jedi weren’t expecting to be betrayed and it wasn’t going to happen until the clones got the order which they then immediately carried out so the Jedi weren’t in a state to predict or expect it and even if they did sense it they had no time to react and defend themselves if it was even possible for them too.

Not from what I can tell, and that's coming from somebody who hates RotJ. From what I see, the sequence is as follows

Lunge (Luke)

Parry (Vader)

Draw Cut (Luke)

Mittelhaw x3 (Luke)

Parry (Vader)

Mittelhaw (Luke)

Parry (Vader)

Zornhaw (Luke)

Parry (Vader)

Oberhaw (Vader)

Riposte (Luke)

Mittelhaw (Luke)

Oberhaw (Vader)

Parry (Luke)

Mittelhaw x3 (Luke)

Impossible to tell because of the staircase, but appears to be a series of oberhaw + ripostes from both sides

And after that is pretty much history. It's so fast and Vader is just trying (and eventually failing) to parry, so he resorts to bobbing and weaving. There are only two noticeable instances where Luke specifically attacks Vader's saber, during his pushing forward (the dolly shot) to create space and in the end to disarm Vader, which in itself explains any point where Luke may have been fighting Vader's saber; because he wasn't trying to kill him.
The overarching point is that if you can find the movement in a parry, that means the attack isn't aiming for the weapon. To that same end, I don't really see the issue with OP's webm. They're fighting like space wizards, not medieval knights.

Force premonition obviously has some limits. You expect enemies to fire at you, so you’re ready to deflect their lasers. You don’t expect your own allies to suddenly turn against you and shoot you in the back. Also not every Jedi is equal, a few of the strongest ones did survive order 66, while the weaker ones were culled.

Feels more like chinese wuxia choreography t b h. Purposefully exadurated.

What should I call the order? Order 666 would be good since it's really evil. No, that's too on the nose. What about Order 6? No, that makes it sound like they don't get many orders. Order 66, yeah that's it...

I fail to see how they can block all of them from a fast firing machine gun

blasters are lasers

Based Plinkett reviews watcher

The problem is Lucas realised audiences didn't want to watch people trying and failing to poke each other? This "fight" is boring as shit to watch.

You have to be soulless to think this scene is bad

Are you a moron or just trolling? Maul is in the middle of a spin and his left side blade is going to be in Obi-Wan's guts within a second if he doesn't block it. What you think is an opening is not.

Kendo is a way to discipline the human character through the application of the principles of the katana.

Purpose:
To mold the mind and body.[30]
To cultivate a vigorous spirit
And through correct and structured training,
To strive for improvement in the art of Kendo.
To hold in esteem courtesy and honor.
To associate with others with sincerity.
And to forever pursue the cultivation of oneself.

Thus will one be able:
To love one's country and society;
To contribute to the development of culture;
And to promote peace and prosperity among all people.

I can see why none of that is appealing to you. Here's a ball, perhaps you'd like to bounce it?

I wish you faggots would warch the movies before making these retarded claims

Anon Babble is experts at swordfighting now

somebody who hates RotJ

Literal faggotry. Kill yourself.

I can see why kendo is entertaining to watch as a sport, I just don't think it translates well into a film where intergalactic space wizards who swing around swords made of light use it as their main method of combat, and I think the prequels were far better at choreographing high stakes battles between said space wizards.

The prequels were dog shit.

okay then

the crossguard makes no sense but it looks fucking cool so i love it. literally the only good thing to come out of the sequels

but it looks fucking cool

No it doesn't. It looks retarded.

It looks so cool it immediately destroys your suspension of disbelief just by looking at it

I actually agree with you. I despise the sequels, but crossguard lightsaber is one of the very few things I liked from it. Custom lightsabers are not ruining any canon, Dooku had a curved handle lightsaber and Maul had a double sided saber.

exadurated

Gee sorry I wasn't born knowing how to spell every word right fuck off

your taste is simply not as refined as mine and and that's fine. we wouldn't be patricians without you plebs.

If your spelling is that fucking bad you should consider reading instead of writing. Or people here will just assume you're a nigger and tell you to fuck off, nigger.

Boy you must be fun at parties

Nigger he's hitting the blade despite having acres of space and time to attack. Your meme analysis holds no weight, literally delusional

since none of the other faggots bothered to do it I'll just let you know that the correct spelling for it is "exaggerated"