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Post by LiAnakin Skywalker on Aug 21, 2007 10:36:27 GMT -5
Hey you guys....I'm about to head out the door for my first class with a new private sword coach. Gonna sharpen my saber skills, (no pun intended, LOL!) and learn Anakin Skywalker's specific moves for the film project.
I'm SOOOOooooo excited about the classes and thought I'd share it with ya.
Woo-hoooooo!!!!!!!!!!........
....(oops, is it acceptable for a Jedi to squeal "Woo-hoo!"...??) Oh well, I hope so! ) ;D
MTFBWY!
Lianakin~
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Post by acalsohei on Aug 21, 2007 11:37:55 GMT -5
Whoa, cool! Wish I could join you!
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Post by I Five on Aug 21, 2007 12:58:31 GMT -5
fun! Have a great time! Acaloshi...you could compose some new music for her moves  |
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Post by Jauhzmynn Enz on Aug 21, 2007 22:06:22 GMT -5
Anyone can 'whoohoo" even Jedi. :-P Why not.;-) I do happy dances when I'm tickled.
To bad I can't join in on the classes. Can't afford 'em and the commute is WAY to far away.
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Post by J'aii-Gun Jiinn on Aug 21, 2007 22:07:14 GMT -5
Allright.Maybe you could teach us some! eh?  |
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Post by LiAnakin Skywalker on Aug 22, 2007 6:03:16 GMT -5
Oh sweet Force,...how cool the first lesson was! I'm SOooo going to do this regularly, at least as regularly as I can afford to. And absolutely I would be happy to teach you all some moves! (either we'd all have to get in the same location somehow, or, maybe a videotaped demo would be more feasible.)[/i] Anyway,...you guys, you gotta try this! It isn't very expensive at all. Not much more of a than the cost of belonging to a gym. In my case, I figure it's a worthy investment for acting, so I'm justifying the expense, but even for non actors who want to learn some swordplay, there's probably a stage combat class taught at just about every drama school. It's WELL worth it!! But I like the private coach aspect, because it's a more accelerated pace, so you learn more in less time. At today's first lesson we started slow...a Tai Chi warm up, ran through the basics I already knew,...basic parries, thrusts, attacks, blocks, etc,. and then learned a basic pivot turn technique, plus a couple of new variations of the "moulinet"... (that windmill kind of around-the-wrist-spin maneuver that every Jedi does with the saber, especially Anakin, who just loves to twirl the saber a bunch in just about every fight scene.) But then the pace picked up and it got reallllly cool - he started teaching me the aggressive attack-steps and continual forward-moving barrage of slices and moulinets that Anakin is famous for,...including that trademark saber-over-the-head two-handed spin-slice thing he does. (OMG, THAT's one bad-to-the-bone maneuver there!)  ;D By the end of the second hour, I head learned a couple of full routines that when done right make General Grievous' attack style look meek. There's even this cool little jiffy trick in there where you toss the saber sideways up in the air, duck the opponent's blade, then catch the saber and, whoosh into a one-handed slice...bye bye opponent. I'm definitely going to use these routines in the demo-reel film, plus whatever new ones I learn between now and November when we film. Now all I have to do is practice everything, A LOT. And maybe finding a good practice spot is next on the list...I tried practicing in the driveway of our building this afternoon with the PVC practice prop-saber, and, aside from getting strange looks from tenants who were coming home fcrom work,...I also somehow managed to accidentally swashbuckle my car bumper once during a spin.  (ka-DONK!) (nice!) Didn't damage it, but, felt reeeeeeally stupid) Between the two hour class today, and the time I spent practicing this evening, I am sure I will have sore arms and legs tomorrow....did lots of lunges and my quads were going, "Um, excuuuuuse me?" But it's a good way for me to get into better shape. As obsessive as I am, I will probably be spending a couple of hours a day practicing this stuff, because it is SO MUCH FUN! . ...........THIS ROCKS!!! ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by J'aii-Gun Jiinn on Aug 22, 2007 7:54:02 GMT -5
Sounds cool!
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Post by Jan-Qui Coran on Aug 24, 2007 20:09:40 GMT -5
;D WOW I wish I could do something like that. I have no idea if they have even anything close to that in my town. That will give me something to look up while I recover & do rehab--I know I'd like to take up karate again & I'd LOVE to learn Tai Chi.
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Post by Jauhzmynn Enz on Aug 24, 2007 21:43:00 GMT -5
AHh right, tai CHi. THAT I do know.;-)
Sounds like a great class Lianikan. Very cool
I'm trying to do some training myself, using tai CHi(internal martial arts,) yeah you CAN fight with this stuff, fists, feet AND swords. Cool looking.
I can teach some tai CHi, or at least expain some of the basics. Snag me at Dragon COn jan QUi
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Post by Larwi B'nu on Sept 12, 2007 12:38:35 GMT -5
"Moulinet!" That's what it's called! You're right, Anakin does love his spinning wrist maneuvers. Wait a minute...wasn't that a movie starring a young Obi Wan and Nicole Kidman? "Moulinet Rouge?!" ;-D
...okay, that was either a knee slapper or a groan....
Anyway, swordplay is an incredible art, and it does wonders for any film, I don't care how advanced we become as a society or futuristic, classic swordplay will always be an incredible display. If you need any further evidence of this, just check out the scene in the James Bond film, "Die Another Day," where Bond goes toe to toe with the villain in an incredible duel that traverses the entire club they're at; watching lightsaber duels is always awesome, but seeing a classic, metal-on-metal sword battle in this day and age can be just as exciting.
Good luck, LiAnakin, and may the Force be with you...oh, and, uh, watch out for those car bumpers....
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Post by Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar on Sept 12, 2007 13:04:50 GMT -5
Larwi, you're funny!
Sounds like a lot of fun LiAnakin! Wish there was something liek that around here... but in the Outer Regions there isn't much going
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Post by Larwi B'nu on Sept 16, 2007 13:03:42 GMT -5
Oh! You don't even need to check out a Bond film to see great swordplay; how about the Pirates of the Caribbean series?! Intense and incredible!
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Post by LiAnakin Skywalker on Sept 19, 2007 19:12:26 GMT -5
Hi everybody.... Sorry I've been absent recently....I've been racing to get the costume upgrades finished in time to do a photo shoot and start working on the film project. It's taken all my free time outside of work, and I hadn't logged on here for the past three weeks until today. Saber training is coming along nicely, and I've gotten a lot better. Haven't swashbuckled any more car bumpers, thank the Force. (I am however very glad that my prop saber is just made of pvc pipe, because while trying to spin the saber into the air and catch it I have many times ended up with the blade coming down "upside-my-head" instead. Or, catching it after the toss but catching it BY the blade.) (can you say "new mechanical hand"? LOL!) But, anyway, I'm getting alot more confident with the saber. I've so far learned the choreography of first 30 seconds or so of the Mustafar duel. Several more scenes to go. The next challenge is to learn how to do a backflip on a wire and harness so I can start off the attack the way it's done in the film. Wheee! (this from a girl who could not even do a cartwheel in grade school and was too chicken to try gymnastics)How in the heck we're going to afford a wire and crane rig to film that shot I don't know, but, I will let the Force work that miracle out. All I know is I'm gonna do that Anakin backflip one way or another. On film. Without ending up in a bodycast or a Darth vader suit. ;D |
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Post by Leda EmBorr on Sept 20, 2007 13:20:12 GMT -5
Awesome... omg... backflips are out of my itinerary.  |
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Post by J'aii-Gun Jiinn on Sept 20, 2007 15:26:58 GMT -5
The force isn't with me doing backflips ,or any type flips |
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(ka-DONK!) (nice!)
