If lightsabers were real, would turning them off and back on to get past a block be a feasible maneuver...

If lightsabers were real, would turning them off and back on to get past a block be a feasible maneuver? At least more common than its portrayal in media? Pic related is the only time I've seen something close to it.

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It'd be risky because then your opponents lightsaber is also now behind your guard.

That sounds retardedly dangerous. That person blocking you is probably trying to get a counter attack in unless they've just blocked you by the skin of their teeth. Like I'm not understanding in your pick why red and blue's post block swing is so high.

Surely that would have gone strait through heterocromia gundam once the saber was dropped, or could have been made to with a slight downward adjustment.

See the top and bottom maneuver

>Pic related is the only time I've seen something close to it.
Also kind of the same, this fight where Michelle Yeoh takes advantage of the fact that her opponent's sword cuts through weapons.
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>that second one

Couldn't that be countered by just bringing your lightsaber down in front of you instead of throwing your arms back and to the sides like an idiot?

I think the assumption is that you're being pulled in chest-first in a fashion that also throws you off balance. In that case, you will likely throw your arms out by reflex to attempt to balance, or else throw them out in front of you to guard; either case, you're about to get sliced up.

Basically all of those maneuvers would only work if lightsabers were heavy physical blades, since they're all reliant on using the opponent's momentum against him.
But with a magic light sword, you don't WANT to have momentum. You want fast cuts where you pivot the hilt in your hand, and only apply full arm strength if you lock blades. You don't need any force at all behind the blade, because the magic light sword always cuts everything.

There's a specific technique name in Star Wars for exactly what you're describing, but the name escapes me.

Well, assuming you are falling forward, do you really want to possibly go head first into your own lightsaber?

Guys lightsabers are totally unrealistic

No one cares

It would require a specific fighting style based around avoiding your opponent's attacks altogether before swinging for the kill, but that sounds feasible.

In the old EU, there was in fact a whole lightsaber style oriented around this, called Tràkata.

starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tràkata

>He doesn't realize Lucas originally intended lightsabers to be heavy as fuck

>Lucas
>mattering
>201disney

Disney has also referred to lightsabers as seeming heavy, with the bit in Rebels where Ezra teaches Sabine to handle the Darksaber.

>linkinparksaber
>mattering to any discussion

In reality people don't often lock blades for more than an instant and when they do it quickly devolves into something closer to wrestling than swordfighting.

Doesn't matter if you don't think it's cool, it's still there. Plus, in TFA, Rey and Kylo both fought more like they were carrying physical blades than weightless energy beams.

I mean, you say that but the training stuff with the darksaber is the meatiest stuff canon has ever had in regards to lightsaber combat. It's also a pretty decent episode.

What the literal fuck is a darksaber?
Did disney go fuller retard than I was made aware?

No. The sword takes about .6 seconds to shut down or light after it's turned on or off. By the time it was turning back on you'd have missed.

Dude, you don't get it, man, it's a lightsaber, right, but dude, it's DARK. So you can, like, fight in the dark and no one can see you coming!
>but, brah, don't they, like, hum?
Whoa, man, I said it was a darksaber, not a deafsaber. You can't hear in the dark, anyway...

– Actual Lucasfilm Darksaber conceptual design conversation

>All this talk about lightsaber weight.
But even if it was heavy, it would be completely unbalanced compared to a metal sword because all the weight is in the handle, right? So you'd still want to focus on pivoting to reposition the blade faster.

Lucasfilm introduced it in The Clone Wars' first Mandalore Arc. It's an Old-Republic era lightsaber that starts off in the hands of Mandalorian extremists. It's not really different from any other lightsaber except visually, and the show treats it the same as any other lightsaber. Nothing special.

Are we assuming the force is real too?
Because switching the opponent's saber off is like the first tactic one would have to defend from, once you can do that you would have the needed control over your blade.
It would be a risky but expected tactic, useful against those styles of combat that shift their weight aggressively, and can't react as quickly in mid attack.

>all the weight is in the handle, right?
Depends on if you mean Star Wars lightsabers or just any energy blade, but given how they're used in SW, the weight distribution seems to include the blade. The old EU mostly justifies this with the blades generating a gyroscopic force. Not sure if canon does the same

They had the same effect in The Force Unleashed, but they just called that the black lightsaber crystal.

TFU was a good fun romp but it was blatantly not canon even in its time.

George Lucas was directly involved, though at the time it seemed like he was going out of his way to sabotage all Star Wars related vidya projects.
>Darth Icky

>top one
You can do it by just rotating your sword without compromising your own defence. Similar to how defender walked around in 3rd example.
Also only retard would push so hard that he falls on the floor the moment you move your blade out of the way.

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IIRC, it's a dense plasma field. While a plasma field dense enough to give the blade real mass would be "fun!" of it failed* it would also explain why it can cut though things and why it deflects off objects it can't cut rather then be disrupted.

*Plasma contained to 1g/cc** would have a tremendous amount of energy. If containment failed the explosion would be enough to reduce anyone near by into a shadow burned into the walls.

**The density of liquid water under standard conditions. Enough to make the blade heavy-ish, but still less then 1/8th the density of steel

top and bottom are fucking retarded. why would you lean on your sword like that. there would be less power in that swing than if you had a proper stance

Wow jedi are retarded.
They're fighting with a weapon that has pretty much no inertia, with no requirement for edge alignment and momentum to slice, and an instantly retractable blade. Their martial arts should look a little differnt to two six-year-olds with longswords falling all over the place.

>Darksabers now introduced beside lightsabers
>Greysaber is announced for new movie/season
>it's just a retractable greatsword

>it's literally a 40K powersword