Kick wrote on Nov 4
th, 2020 at 2:35pm:
a stick is a stick. It goes bonk.
Yeah, but the over the top arm movements only helps to open yourself to your opponent and makes you spend twice the time making a strike. In the end it looks silly.
Reminds me of my first time watching Akademia Szermierzy (HEMA, sword fighting). After a lifetime of watching theatre sword fights the real deal looked so weird but was actually really simple and logical and all together was so much more awesome.
In that nerve, I haven't been able to take lightsaber fights from the prequels seriously after "Star Wars: The (Totally) Phantom Menace"
Here are some quarterstaff sparring rounds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMjsHE5p2vs&thttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uja1TNNNko4As the second videos notes, due to the nature of the quarterstaff the fights focus on showing your opponent’s staff out of the way instead of hitting him/her but it definitely looks more meaningful.