Lightsaber dueling officially recognized as a competitive sport in France

[UsandThem]

Lightsaber dueling officially recognized as a competitive sport in France

Plenty realistic, at least, for duelists to work up an impressive sweat slashing, feinting and stabbing in organized, 3-minute bouts. The physicality of lightsaber combat is part of why the French Fencing Federation threw its support behind the sport and is now equipping fencing clubs with lightsabers and training would-be lightsaber instructors. Like virtuous Jedi knights, the French federation sees itself as combatting a Dark Side: The sedentary habits of 21st-century life that are sickening ever-growing numbers of adults and kids.

So who here is relocating to France to nerd out train?

 

[SKORPI0]

 

[spacejamz]

How it can it be a true light saber duel if body parts don't instantly fall off when the energy blade beam thing makes contact? Hope they at least make cool whooosshing sounds when they move the blade around...

 

[IronWing]

I call shens. In a vacuum, no one can hear you whine.