Saber Forum

As the question says. What form are these two using? I always wanted to do this with someone just for fun. xp So enjoy the epic saber training video from the real guys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTziNcVtY24#ws (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTziNcVtY24#ws)

Obi-Wan = Soresu, Anakin = Djem So.

The saber fights in the Prequels were supposed to tell the story, at the end of ROTS Anakin is now extremely aggressive with Obi-Wan being on the extremely defensive side of the coin.

Some background on why we have saber forms:

"When the Star Wars prequel trilogy began filming, Peter Diamond was replaced by Nick Gillard, who completely rethought the Jedi fighting styles. George Lucas envisioned that during this time period, the Jedi had reached their peak in terms of martial arts development, so the choreography had to be a great deal faster and more sophisticated.[89] Gillard wanted to convey the sense that the Jedi had studied every single style of swordplay available, his idea being that since they had chosen such a short-range weapon, they would have to be so good if they're up against ray guns and lasers. Gillard choreographed the duels as what he described as "a chessgame played at a thousand miles an hour", with every move being analogous to a check. Aiding Gillard was the martial artist Ray Park, who portrayed Darth Maul, and helped train Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor."

"The seven forms of lightsaber combat received their first description and elaboration in the Fightsaber: Jedi Lightsaber Combat article released in Star Wars Insider 62. While these fighting styles would be mentioned and used in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and its sequel, Jedi Academy would instead use the three styles; Fast, Medium, and Strong. While each of these forms had strong parallels to the Three Rings of Defense described in the 1998 expanded universe novel I, Jedi, they may be little more than game mechanics."

Wookieepedia: http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber_combat (http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Lightsaber_combat)

Oh cool. I like Anakin's form.

The answer is actually: Whatever Nick Gillard told them to.

The Forms were not constructed until after the prequels and Nick Gillard had no say in what was written. The forms were written after the fact to give the Jedi and Lightsaber combat some depth. Ataru was to match the flippy flippy stuff from Episode 1 and Yoda, Makashi was to make Dooku look more like an elitist badass, Soresu was written to describe Obi-Wan's latter day defensive posture, Luke was given Djem so to describe his open aggression, Niman to explain the decline and lack of warfare efficiency most Jedi faced during the time period and Juyo/Vaapad were written to underscore how badass the users were.

So yes, Anakin and Obi were doing Djem So and Soresu with a little bit of other stuff thrown in. Hayden and Ewan were just doing Choreo 

/choreo and seven forms rant off

Point!

I just did some Djem moves for fun. Its an easy form. Did some of the body twirls and everything. xp So kind of my own interpretation of Djem. And can I suggest the Aeon/Deominix hilts for this form? Very streamlined hilts so nothing gets in the way of twirling or anything. Even the Standard issue saber would be great for Djem.

This is a combination of 7 sword styles hence the 7 saber styles however the movie there was no Jedi style this was made after the movies but one could say its vaapad or soreasu.

Its still an enjoyable video and to get ideas from. =]