![]() It was difficult to master for a number of reasons, one of them is that all of the weight a lightsaber had was in its hilt. ![]() Throughout the millennia since the lightsaber's creation, the art of dueling with them developed into seven "classic" forms and numerous other styles. For example, the dueling-centric Makashi form was created during a time when Dark Jedi and rogue Force-sensitives ran rampant through the galaxy, and lightsaber duels became a common occurrence, whereas Soresu was developed when such confrontations were rare, and Jedi were more likely to confront blaster-wielding opponents and gunslingers rather than lightsaber duelists. Darth Vader by Jeremy GillThe various combat forms owed their unique focuses and methods to the eras in which they were created, as they were oftentimes developed to answer a new generation of weapons technology. Martial Arts Studies: Disrupting Disciplinary Boundaries.Demonic Warfare: Daoism, Territorial Networks, and the History of a Ming Novel.Jet Li: Chinese Masculinity and Transnational Film Stardom.The Creation of Wing Chun: A Social History of the Southern Chinese Martial Arts.Kyle Barrowman, History in the Making: Martial Arts between Planet Hollywood and Planet Hong Kong Book Reviews. ![]()
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