sadness. going to email US. the Dom did not survive our first corona-isolation day. Processing the vid right now...
The set up:
my 7yo padawan had her Initiate with 24" UEMG
my 10yo had his Dark Apprentice LEv5with 36" UEHG
I had my Dominicde in single-blade mode (dark war glaive emitter pommel, 36" UEHG blade)
we left the Aeon with 24" UEHG at home for this outing.
We went to the local park to practice sparring with me focused on practicing blocks with the Dom while the two kids took turns trying to hit me. My 10yo took off one Dom claw around 5 minutes. My 7yo took out three screws from the hilt, one of those long black bumpers, and shut down the Dom
(it turned off and wouldn't turn back on) Both kids were horrified at breaking another one of my toys on Day 1 (we broke my Traxxis RC car when my kid plowed his into mine a few years back and I have yet to fix those even though I bought the replacement parts years ago)
I'm hoping that last part is just because we were at around the 20 min of sparring mark and had drained the batteries, but the hilt is currently wobbly and loose because of missing screws and the bumper that popped off might have been holding the top and bottom portions (it's the one right next to the access cover (?) that comes off to reprogram the diamond board)
The kids then had me on the DA-LEv5 and we did more blocking. After another 10 minutes or so, the DA also ran out of juice. We sparred dark for another 10 or so minutes, which was still fun. Though mostly it was me practicing blocking while they took swings at me. We inspected the sabers afterwards and the DA blade actually got loose enough to pull out. The Initiate survived with power to spare (yay 4xAAA)
We had fun, but the kids were worried that we weren't supposed to be sparring with these. Wife asked if the Dom was supposed to be a display-piece/trophy-piece.
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