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BLITZ IV-e TUTORIAL VIDEO RELEASED

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BLITZ IV-e TUTORIAL VIDEO RELEASED

We took a very basic Lightspeed Saber training drill and turned it into something quite fancy and complex. Try this start picking up your chops on fighting hordes of droids on narrow, rail-less bridges that fall into bottomless chasms.

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TRAINING GAME: MEMORY SHIELD

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TRAINING GAME: MEMORY SHIELD

This is a classic Lightspeed Saber training game. Great even for day one students!

Memory Shield helps you learn good shield transitions, as well as helps you commit the shields to muscle memory. You CAN play it without safety gear, but you must remember in this case your goal is to NOT hit

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BLITZ IV OFFICIALLY UPDATED TO VERSION C

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BLITZ IV OFFICIALLY UPDATED TO VERSION C

Blitz IV, the lateral movement sequence part of Lightspeed Saber Online Unit 1, has been updated to Blitz IV-c. This version significantly ups the difficulty, which we felt had been lacking for being the 5th sequence in the unit.

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TUTORIAL: ONE-TWO REDIRECT

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TUTORIAL: ONE-TWO REDIRECT

The idea of a fakeout is well known and simple enough. However, doing a fakeout well requires efficiency. Otherwise, you run the risk of wasting your own time and energy, or worse, getting intercepted. The main idea in this simple video is to deliver a two-beat action within a single step. This ensures that you are able to

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TUTORIAL: THE BOLT

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TUTORIAL: THE BOLT

Due to current COVID restrictions my tutorials will be focusing on solo practice for the next week or two. But that doesn’t mean we can’t learn new things. Today I’m going over the bolt. the bolt is descended from the “fleche”, a running attack used in

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PUBLIC TUTORIAL: THE LOCKOUT COUNTERATTACK

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PUBLIC TUTORIAL: THE LOCKOUT COUNTERATTACK

This is probably true in all sports or combat arts, but it’s especially true in Lightspeed Saber fencing that some fencers kill themselves a lot more than their opponent killed them. This happens often at the beginner to intermediate level, when they are just learning to defend themselves. But unlike traditional

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DEFLECTOR BASIC CONCEPTS

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DEFLECTOR BASIC CONCEPTS

To survive in Lightspeed saber, you need to know how to deflect attacks. Even offensive players deflect an attack sometimes (though often out of pure instinct rather than any conditioned response).

Lightspeed Saber defense is divided into two halves:

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