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From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Blaster bolts and the Force
Message-ID: <6301@duke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 17:13:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 17:13:53 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 18-Sep-85 05:41:44 EDT
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All this about blaster bolts, and how a Jedi Knight can deflect them --

when I used to study Budo seriously, I spent a lot of time practicing
with wooden swords.  I noticed a couple of odd things:

1) Sometimes the damn' sword would zip over without me noticing what it/I 
was doing -- usually when this happened I would either hit the other guy,
and he would say ``Where'd that come from'' or else it would intercept a
hit that I had never seen.

2)  After a certain amount of time practicing, I would notice in some
drills that the swords were almost magnetic: they wanted to hit together,
usually in the same spot each time.

Clearly, lightsabers have at least as much smarts as a red-oak bokken,
and take care of it themselves.

-- 

			Charlie Martin
			(...mcnc!duke!crm)


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