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New York Jedi Academy (abc news video)
New York Jedi Academy (abc news video)
real life jedi academy
New York Jedi Academy (abc news video)
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I'm sure they have a lot of fun. I stopped being involved when the group I was with lost sight of what we were doing it for. It was originally done to prepare for charity events. It then turned into some kind of Jedi Academy type thing with Master and Knights and students "going through the trials" to become Knights and blah blah blah. Basically, in my mind, it became to much like everyone trying to make Star Wars real. They even had one student that wanted part of his "trials" to be him using his mind to find out which box a crystal was in. That treaded far to close to mysticism and religion for me.
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They even had one student that wanted part of his "trials" to be him using his mind to find out which box a crystal was in. That treaded far to close to mysticism and religion for me.
Did that student become a famous actor named Tom Cruise?
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Originally posted by: lordjedi
It then turned into some kind of Jedi Academy type thing with Master and Knights and students "going through the trials" to become Knights and blah blah blah..
It then turned into some kind of Jedi Academy type thing with Master and Knights and students "going through the trials" to become Knights and blah blah blah..
Hmm, I am guessing the whole Masters and Knights and trials changes took place sometime around the year 1999, am I right? My friend and I use to choreograph fights with metal broom sticks. Getting hit in the fingers by accident was incredibly painful. But it looked really cool we we could go at it full force. We broke a lot of broom sticks though.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
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there is an aspect i'm not a big fan of, however. I seriously hope that these people don't think that they are really learning to fight. I know it sounds ridiculous, but i've met too many people who think they have real combat skills b/c they've joined some sort of club similar to this (such as some of those medieval "re-enactment" groups). I took olympic style fencing lessons for a few years in college & have been taking Kendo (japanese fencing) for over a year now. I guess i'm somewhat prejudiced when i see people who "sword fight" but clearly have no training in anything that even resembles actual sword combat techniques. I'm by no means an expert on sword fighting, & i dont kid myself into thinking fencing or kendo are real sword combat (as in "to be used on an actual battlefield"). But, they are sports derived from actual sword techniques that were designed to kill real people. So, they do have some practicality & history that give practitioners some understanding of what actual sword combat would be like (i.e. what would work, & what would just get you killed quicker). I guess it makes me cringe sometimes to see people "playing sword fighting", especially if (as i'm sure some of these people might) they have any interest in actually taking fencing, kendo, etc. as this will develop some really bad habits that will be hard to break if they begin taking real lessons (again, i've seen it happen to a guy).
Not to mention that when i look at those people, i don't see star wars. I see gothic comic book super heroes.... but i digress.
All in all, i'm sure it's fun (heck, i can't deny swinging around my master replicas lightsaber from time to time), but at the same time it makes me cringe a little inside...
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Originally posted by: canofhumdingers
glad to see people are enjoying this. personally, i'd say they're big nerds. But then, so am i. I used to go to a swing dance club in high school. Everyone there would dress up too so it's somewhat similar i guess.
glad to see people are enjoying this. personally, i'd say they're big nerds. But then, so am i. I used to go to a swing dance club in high school. Everyone there would dress up too so it's somewhat similar i guess.
Whoa whoa whoa! Before you go thinking I am a super nerd because my buddy and I would choreograph lightsaber fights, I feel like I ought to clearify that that was inbetween playing painball and shooting cans with our .22s, which were much more common ways for us to spend out time. Also I must say that the whole broom stick/lightsaber fights sure didn't hurt us as far as girls went, in fact our biggest motive in our choreographed fights was to impress girls (and believe it or not, it turned out to be a pretty good tactic). Of course we never told them they were choreographed, nor that they were suppose to be lightsabers, but we did turn a lot of heads when we would break out into a violent fast paced fight with metal sticks.
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Besides, it's quite clear you're not the only person in the world who's made a lightsaber fight choreography (& most likely far from being the nerdiest). But i would question why you felt the need to defend yourself so strongly about it when no one even directly addressed you as a nerd....
I still stand by my statement that these people are nerds. & good for them. i don't care for their particular brand of nerdery (& i woefully disdain their "swordfighting" techniques, if you can even call them that) , but i certainly have my own nerdery that many would argue easily competes with these people's.
oh yeah, regarding how they don't "look" star warsy to me, after showing my wife the video, she said, "it doesn't even look like star wars! all i saw were star whores!" heheh.
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But i would question why you felt the need to defend yourself so strongly about it when no one even directly addressed you as a nerd....
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But i would question why you felt the need to defend yourself so strongly about it when no one even directly addressed you as a nerd....
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Ah, I didn't really feel any strong need at all, and I know you were not directly addressing me. My post was mostly just for fun. I'll be the first to admit I am a bit nerdy, after all, I spent most the day last Saturday watching The Angry Nintendo Nerd and playing Metroid and Zelda on my old NES. I proudly admit to be a nerd, but in all honesty, I never really saw the broom stick dueling as all that nerdy, but now that I think of it, I guess it was a bit. Fortunately for us, it still got us some dates... or... maybe, fortunately for us we still got dates inspite of it? Hmm...
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Hmm, I am guessing the whole Masters and Knights and trials changes took place sometime around the year 1999, am I right? My friend and I use to choreograph fights with metal broom sticks. Getting hit in the fingers by accident was incredibly painful. But it looked really cool we we could go at it full force. We broke a lot of broom sticks though.
Originally posted by: lordjedi
It then turned into some kind of Jedi Academy type thing with Master and Knights and students "going through the trials" to become Knights and blah blah blah..
It then turned into some kind of Jedi Academy type thing with Master and Knights and students "going through the trials" to become Knights and blah blah blah..
Hmm, I am guessing the whole Masters and Knights and trials changes took place sometime around the year 1999, am I right? My friend and I use to choreograph fights with metal broom sticks. Getting hit in the fingers by accident was incredibly painful. But it looked really cool we we could go at it full force. We broke a lot of broom sticks though.
Actually no. The Master, Knights, and trials changes took place just before ROTS if I remember correctly. We had actually just started meeting up as a local group of Star Wars fans in 1999. We didn't start our first lightsaber class until about 2003 (someone knew someone that did RenFair and could teach us the basics). We did it to learn lightsaber combat, which evolved into wanting to do a fan film, which then evolved into a choreographed battle for charity events. Somewhere along the way the officers of the club stopped caring about the age of combatants (it was originally 18+ only) and pretty much only cared about the ROE. Essentially, we had it setup so the club wouldn't be liable if you got hurt (hence only 18+ could fight) unless your parents signed a waiver and met with the Pres and VP of the club (we wanted the parents to know what their kid was doing and we wanted them to know who we were). That worked out fine for a while, but once we stepped down (I was the VP), nobody cared about enforcing it.
I pretty much stopped going when they started introducing a lot of rules meant to "protect me from myself". Like no hopping on one leg quickly, because you might not be able to stop and you'll run into someones blade. Of course, they let the "you must wear gloves rule" slide from time to time, again probably because they didn't really care to enforce it.
I don't believe anyone considered it "real" fighting except maybe one guy that was banned from the class for making threats.
As far as I know, it's still the biggest activity they do. I wouldn't mind getting into it again, but not with the group I use to fight with.
You are disciplined but tolerant; a true American.
Pissing off Rob since August 2007.