Originally Posted by
Jonitus
This question in one form or another creeps up time after time after time.
Given enough force, you can break anything. Why in the world people want to bash around expensive lightsabers, I will never understand. Very few people in the entire planet have any skill with weapons, so dueling is more an exercise of machismo and showing off for their fellow nerds than it is an exercise in any kind of martial art. One of the reasons I stopped building sabers entirely was that people who were willing to dropp upwards of $2000 on a lightsaber from me wanted to be able to beat concrete pillars to dust with it too, which is ludicrous.
Regardless of how many black or whatever color belt you may have in whatever hard-to-pronounce fake martial art, honest deuling with lightsabers is best left to professionals that have indemnity insurance and can afford the resulting lawsuits from the injuries that will inevitably result. For the gentle tip=tap "dueling" that we dorks do, anything built from TCSS parts and built according to recommendation ought to be sufficient to entertain in the back yard and sufficiently impress the few women who hang around dorks like us. None of us is a Sith or Jedi, and the sooner we realize we are grown up playing with TOYS, the sooner we will respect the time and energy that goes into making them and take better care of them rather than beating the crap out of something that was built with hard-earned money. I mean, if you just want to throw money away, I'll give you my address and you can send it all to me.
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