Hey Star Wars fans my name is Prince and I am an Urban Acolyte.
Do Rey and Palpatine have the same fighting style?
Short answer—NO, they don’t.
In this video I really want to hammer home the reasons why you should not base Rey being
Palpatine’s granddaughter on three lightsaber fight scenes.
Honestly, If you're going to use this argument, then you are cherry picking your evidence.
I say this because Palpatine is at least two other lightsaber fights during the Clone Wars
series.
He has the fight with Maul and Savajj Opress, and there is also the fight with Yoda on the
very last episode of the Clone Wars.
Everyone seems to be under the impression that Palpatine has a trademark move that he
uses during light saber combat, but this is not any kind of signature move or indicative
of a particluar fighting style when Palpatine points his light saber.
That position is the guard position before you thrust with a light saber.
From this position, you can thrust to the center; you can thrust right of center; and
you can thrust left of center.
I demonstrated this before in another video about the Rey Palpatine fan theory.
Now why do we only see Rey and Palpatine use this technique?
The reason why is because of their intent.
Think about the intentions behind this technique.
You are making a trust or a stabbing motion to stab your opponent.
Recall that scene in Revenge of the Sith when the Jedi are coming to arrest Chancellor Palpatine.
In that situation, Palpatine needs to quickly dispatch his opponents.
So when he thrusts with his lightsaber his intentions are to kill the weakest opponents
very quickly…and he does.
Now in The Force Awakens when Ray thrusts her light saber at Kylo Ren at the start of
their fight, she wants to kill him.
Her intentions are not to maim him, hurt him, or disarm him.
Her intentions are to kill Kylo Ren.
Now Rey’s anger and her killing intent have nothing to do with a strong affinity to the
Darkside.
Rey is afraid of Kylo Ren.
She saw him in her vision, and during her interrogation Kylo Ren even says that he knows
that she wants to kill him.
Rey thinks that he's a monster, and she feels that way even more after she witnessed him
murder Han Solo and pretty much slice Finn’s back open.
Now later on in the fight Rey uses that thrust technique again, but this time her intentions
are to injure him and not to kill.
This happens when the Force is guiding her actions.
When Rey allows the force to guide her actions she begins to move in harmony with the Force.
Rey is carrying out the will of the Force, and Kylo Ren, who is had his connection to
the Force weakened, is unable to withstand Rey’s attacks.
This is the reason that Rey is able to defeat him.
Now when Rey is pacing and looking at Kylo Ren on the ground, that is when the dark side
of the Force begins to reach out to her.
That raw emotion and anger that she felt at the beginning of the fight is still there,
and it's telling her that she can end the fight now by killing him, but she resists
the pull of the Darkside.
Now if Rey where the granddaughter of Palpatine, or she had parents who were both darkside
Force users, do you think that she would have resisted the lure of the Darkside if she had
a strong affinity to the Darkside based on her heredity?
If all that were true, don't you think she would've killed Kylo Ren?
So like I said all along Rey’s lightsaber technique is based on how she fights with
her staff.
She's not using any lightsaber forms, and she didn't magically inherit someone else's
fighting style.
Everything she does with the lightsaber is based on the foundation she built using her
staff on Jakku.
If you know anything about weapons training, then you know that the angles are all the
same.
The weapon is an extension of the body, and so the only adjustment that needs to be made
is the adjustment to the dimensions of the weapon.
So I know some of you will be upset with me over what I’m saying in this video, and
to be honest, I don't care.
From what I can tell, the majority of the “experts” on lightsaber combat learned
everything from playing video games.
My advice is that you should get some exercise.
Hop over to ultrasabers and buy yourself a stunt saber, and go enjoy the sun.
So that's my fitness tip for today.
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