Light Sabers?

I see a lot of posts on light sabers. Are they part of the curriculum now?

lol no, but I enjoy encouraging people to get active, and if that's what they want to do, then why not?

Agreed I actually buy lightsabers for the simple reason of customizing them. It's fun and really has nothing to do with my spiritual life as a Jedi.

Some of us don't even own one, besides I think robes make you look cooler

Akkarin wrote: Some of us don't even own one, besides I think robes make you look cooler

Robes are real not based on SciFi fantasy.

Rickie wrote:

Akkarin wrote: Some of us don't even own one, besides I think robes make you look cooler

Robes are real not based on SciFi fantasy.

Lightsabers are just as real, they just don't have the same properties they do in the movies, and they're an excellent tool for getting into shape...

For me atleast, I love what the lightsaber represents, and the effort ant thought that not only goes into making one, but design too. I, like a lot of people in here, see the meaning behind the different colors. My lightsaber is in a glass case in my livingroom and it's the first thing I see every morning due to its placement. I also wear a purple crystal around my neck ( ty arisaig) to have a reminder that can travel with me, of why I choose a purple blade. That being said, it is a real weapon. As zenchi said, it may not have the same properties that it does in the movies, but if you've ever accualy dueled with one u find out super quick how real of a weapon it can be..lol

Not to belabor the point, without Star Wars there would be no "light sabers". To each their own. I for one if I had to do battle with a staff or light saber would choose a staff and can walk with a staff or walking stick quite inconspicuously with them.

Working out with a simple boom handle staff is good exercise, just not inside the house. I can exercise with a walking stick inside if I don't move around too much.

Have you ever exercised on street or a public park with you light sabers?

Be happy, that's what counts.

Rickie wrote: Have you ever exercised on street or a public park with you light sabers?

Daily. Dropped 25 pounds in the past 5 months, stamina is back up to where it was 2 years ago, and arms are getting more defined.

Rickie wrote: Not to belabor the point, without Star Wars there would be no "light sabers". To each their own. I for one if I had to do battle with a staff or light saber would choose a staff and can walk with a staff or walking stick quite inconspicuously with them.

That is true. I've been training with swords (or SLO's) for my whole life (since I was 7(?)). I find, tho, that swinging this around compared to, say, a bokken, staff, or sword, a lot less menacing. To the common person, I'm a nerd swinging around his glorified glowstick. Also, its fun. hehehehe.

So yeah, you could have a staff (many jedi even in the fiction had staffs as their weapon of choice that they meditated on to make them strong enough to deflect lightsabre blows). So you could totally do that. I've been wanting to make myself a new staff one day. But for now, I have my sabre.

Rickie wrote: Not to belabor the point, without Star Wars there would be no "light sabers".

That depends on how loosely we're defining "light sabers". There are many variations on the theme in D&D exist dating back to 1982, and Thundarr the Barbarian's sun sword existed as early as 1980. Both of those are well after 1977's Star Wars, but earlier examples include the Lucky Starr series of novels that began publication in 1952 (including a forcefield dagger as a trope exemplar). In fact, TV Tropes suggests that another of Asimov's stories (1944's Foundation) to be the earliest mention of a similar style of weapon (the "Ur-Example"), discussing a forcefield blade that functions similarly to the "laserblade" trope.

If Lucas hadn't read that trilogy (Asimov states at least twice, once in '83 and once in '94, that he believes Star Wars was influenced by the Foundation series, specifically in reference to the Galactic Empire), someone else would eventually have picked up the torch and carried it through to fruition. So, really, 5 minutes of time spent on TV Tropes and Wikipedia suggests that we'd still have lightsabers without Star Wars, we'd just call them something different.

eta - Thundarr was heavily influenced by pulp sci-fi and s&s sources, including Flash Gordon, Conan the Barbarian, and yes, Star Wars.