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We Got Lightsaber Fighting Advice From Darth Maul | Nerdist

Do or do not. There is no try. That’s the approach I took last year when I decided I wanted to learn to fight with a lightsaber for real. Or...as real as I could get, anyway. I’m pretty obsessed with lightsabers and I feel like I don’t really have to explain why. From the very first time I saw Luke Skywalker spark up that green laser sword and slaughter Jabba’s goons in Return of the Jedi, I was hooked. I know I’m not the only person in the world who feels that way, and since my job is to make videos here at Nerdist, I try to shoehorn lightsabers into as many videos as my bosses will let me get away with. About a year ago, I made a Nerdist video about the Saber Legion. These men and women gear up in full armor and hack the crap out of each other with lightsabers. Terry Birnbaum, the organization’s founder, told me about an event called TSL3, their third annual national tournament held in Las Vegas as part of CombatCon. I had about a year to get ready and I figured it was time to put

A great article on the hobby I help to shape, we are growing and now is a great time to join us!

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A video of my tag team custom saber battle this weekend!

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"Budo was originally about taking heads. Later, people changed it into bowing and etiquette, but that's just a lie."

Budo is killing. Make no mistake about this. Budo is not a self improvement philosophy designed to make you a better person. It is not a social organization designed to help like mined people connect with one another. It is not an athletic organization designed to improve the fitness of its members. All of that is fine and good if that’s all you can get out of it, then a wonderful thing has happened. However, if you want to know real budo, you cannot be exempted from the horror of what “living and dying by the sword” entails. You cannot understand budo if you restrict yourself to the same teachings that are given in children’s classes. If you really want it, you must familerize yourself with the human body and the exploitation of it’s fatal vulnerabilities. You cannot shy away from thinking ruthless thoughts in the Dojo. You to practice every technique, every moment, with the idea that one of you is going to die. You need to be able to be the one who does the killing. If you are the one who dies, you need to really understand it. You won’t get a second chance, you can’t just go home and you certainly can’t rely on the mercy of killers. You have to understand you may not even feel it.

-the art of life and death

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. . . . Life is full of mysteries, yeah But there are answers out there And they won't be found by people sitting around looking serious and saying 'Isn't life mysterious?' 'Let's sit here and hope. Let's call up the fucking Pope. Let's go watch Oprah interview Deepak Chopra.' If you wanna watch tele, you should watch Scooby Doo. That show was so cool because every time there was a church with a ghoul or a ghost in a school They looked beneath the mask and what was inside? The fucking janitor or the dude who ran the waterslide. Because throughout history every mystery ever solved has turned out to be Not Magic. Does the idea that there might be knowledge frighten you? Does the idea that one afternoon on Wiki-fucking-pedia might enlighten you frighten you? Does the notion that there may not be a supernatural so blow your hippy noodle that you'd rather just stand in the fog of your inability to Google? Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex, wonderfully unfathomable, natural world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters? If you're so into your Shakespeare, lend me your ear: "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw perfume on the violet... is just fucking silly" Or something like that. Or what about Satchmo?! "I see trees of Green, Red roses too," And fine, if you wish to glorify Krishna and Vishnu in a post-colonial, condescending bottled-up and labeled kind of way then whatever, that's ok. But here's what gives me a hard-on: I am a tiny, insignificant, ignorant bit of carbon. I have one life, and it is short and unimportant... But thanks to recent scientific advances I get to live twice as long as my great great great great uncleses and auntses. Twice as long to live this life of mine Twice as long to love this wife of mine Twice as many years of friends and wine Excerpt from “Storm” by Tim Minchin

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The only meaningful thing we can offer one another is love. Not advice, not questions about our choices, not suggestions for the future, just love.

Glennon Melton, Carry On, Warrior (via booksquoteslove)

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Love Warrior

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Please help us raise  the money to host the first national The Saber Legion custom saber tournament! 

We are not for profit and all proceeds go to fund the costs of running the group. All work is volunteer and community driven! 

Check out the link for more information! Even if you can donate please share this with everyone!

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Aaron Riley & Jason Wigham @ Mile High Comics Denver Comic Con PreParty 2015 - Martial Arts Demo

Aaron Riley & Jason Wigham's performance in the cosplay show at the Mile High Comics Denver Comic Con PreParty 2015. Aaron Riley & Jason Wigham represent Was...

For anyone who is interested, I know we don't have light sabers is hand but here is a demo we did at the Comic Con Pre-Party this year at Mile High Comics. This was a charity event for White Rose Scholarship Foundation. I am the "Samurai" with the Boken (sword) in the white headband and the Roku Shaku Bo (staff) wielder is a long therm friend of mine and a fellow martial artist Jason Wigham. In this set of techniques the staff wielder should be victorious at the end of each combo. Hope you enjoy the watch!

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I just met you, this may sound crazy, but here's my labyrinth, I stole your baby! It was awesome to meet you enteringnerdspace at the con, I hope é everything goes amazing for you this weekend! Thank you go this great print!

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If you do martial arts, reblog this.

There’s a lot of us and I want to get to know a lot of you better. Let’s get this going.

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I need to be more active on here but I am always watching . . 

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I need some martial arts help. I recently moved and left my old karate dojo behind. I want to branch out a little, preferably a style with a lot of contact and "roughhousing" as I believe the blog put it once. So, any recommendations?

Judo! [vid]

Hapkido! [vid]

Ninjutsu! [vid]

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu! [vid]

Sumo! [vid]

Also…

Hwa Rang Do

Japanese/Traditional Jiu Jitsu

Sambo

Now, followers, inundate eheu with your recommendations. Let them pour forth!

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Don’t go by style, go by local school Visit every. single. one. before you make a decision. Once you’ve visited each one make up your mind. Instructors/dojo are much more important than the art. 

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There are so many quality martial arts in this world. TheRoninDiaries is right. You will get the most out of whatever art you choose when you have the right teacher for you. Visit all the schools you can and you will find that place to train that is right for you.

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Here is a new project I am working on. Lightsaber and martial theory 

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It dawned on me I have never posted any pics of me actually doing Ninpo. Here are a few still taken from my last  certification. They are a few years old at this point but hey, once you are old not much changes :)

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Takamatsu Sensei - My Grand Masters teacher

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Mine too

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That is one of the great things, we live in a time where every faction is still close enough to show linage to this man within 2 group leaders. Genbukan, Bunjikan, Jininkan, To Shin Do, Ten Chi Wa. We all study Takamatsu Den.

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not sure where this came from. But it was sent to me and I had to share!