Originally posted by Jinsoku Takai
1. [b]Shatterpoint doesn't require the need to break through Kenobi's saber defense.
Explain. From what I understand, mace could shatter a diamond by tapping it in the right spot (The physics of this are pure shit, btw), using shatterpoint. I suppose this is a gift enabling him to see the weakness in any form; but If kenobi, mace's "Greatest Jedi alive" has no weakness in his soresu, then there is no applicability for shatterpoint.
I suppose also that this is emotional/force shatterpoint, though.
2. Vaapad is deadly regardless of whether one is fighting a darksider or not. I believe Red (I hope it's Red, if not , my bad) has the rundown on that.
I never said it
wasn't deadly. I just said that the main feature that separates it from juyo would be useless against obi-wan, especially since kenobi's style involves defense until opportunity for a perfect strike. Form VII, (you can say vapaad is not juyo, but vapaad is based off juyo) is a style of powerful, accurate strokes with little concern for defense.
3. And what evidence is there of Obi-Wan sparring with, or dueling a Form VII (more specifically, Vaapad) practitioner? [/B]
well, there's maul, vader(some) and if you take away vapaad's reflectiveness it becames juyo.
This is interesting as well:
While fighting the cyborg General Grievous on Coruscant, Windu again displayed his mastery of Vaapad. Grievous responded by mimicking Windu's style, which resulted in what Windu considered a passable imitation of the form. Grievous had instructed his personal IG-100 MagnaGuard droids in all seven forms of lightsaber combat, including Form VII.[27] As with Juyo, knowledge of Form VII was recovered from the Great Holocron by the New Jedi Order, who preserved the information into the Sith-Imperial War.[8]
so... yea.... Obi wan has covered some ground.