saber style Makashi: Questions

The common stated weakness for it is that it fails against raw power styles, I find this ridiculous. what if a person such as anakin became a makashi duelist or mace windu? Both are physically strong, and I imagine they using makashi would not be overwhelmed by brute strength.

Makashi to me seems to focus on precision, skill, speed, so with that said, why could not a makashi user just out manuever the enemy blade and then strike them in open spots. Or if forced into direct contact, just fight using their own strength and still have precision, skill, aim? Or does being upclose in the fray make a makashi user lose intelligence....

I just don't see why one could not combine makashis speed, footwork, precision, aim, skill, with ones own natural strength, force powers.

say if windu were a makashi user could he not combine his super strength with its super precision and use his speed to basically one shot people while efotlessly dodging?

Makashi isn't inherently weak against styles with more kinetic power, that's a micsonception. Dooku with one hand effortlessly parried two simultaneous strikes from Obi-Wan and Anakin and did it with such proficiency that it threw them both off balance. It's not a weak style.

The problem is not so much the strength of the individual but rather the fact that the style doesn't USE a lot of strength while doing Makashi. Makashi is ALL about quick light lightning blows meant to disorganize and weaken the enemy. As such, you don't put much of your weight into any given strike.

And you theoretically COULD create a super-Makashi, it would just be very, VERY difficult.

Originally posted by Board Walker
I just don't see why one could not combine makashis speed, footwork, precision, aim, skill, with ones own natural strength, force powers.

say if windu were a makashi user could he not combine his super strength with its super precision and use his speed to basically one shot people while efotlessly dodging?

It's pretty much that simple.

Makashi isn't WEAK. who believes that? Cause they be high on opium.

Makashi is a fencing style. The ONLY reason Dooku was overwhelmed by anakin's strength was that anaking was tapping the force and was REALLY FREAKING strong at that moment. Dooku wasn't going to be able to counter his strength at that point with any style.

So why do people believe makashi suffers against high kinetic force styles? If makashi is able to deal with high kinetic saber styles by redirecting the kinetic force, such as you say he did simultaneously to kenobi and anakin? Then what's the deal? Because from what I see makashi doesn't seem inherently weak vs strong styles at all....

Originally posted by Board Walker
So why do people believe makashi suffers against high kinetic force styles?

Board Walker: Really because Makashi generally is a highly defensive style and doesn't work as well as one would like when somebody starts going for the kill and literally whaling on you (like what Anakin did to Dooku on the Invisible Hand).

Originally posted by Tortoise Herder
Board Walker: Really because Makashi generally is a highly defensive style and doesn't work as well as one would like when somebody starts going for the kill and literally whaling on you (like what Anakin did to Dooku on the Invisible Hand).

although I suppose that the Japanese would probably whale someone like Gideon's mom... *snap*

Originally posted by Board Walker

Makashi to me seems to focus on precision, skill, speed, so with that said, why could not a makashi user just out manuever the enemy blade and then strike them in open spots.

You can, that's what they try and do.

It's a "weakness" but it still requires a good duelist to pull off and Makashi is still one of the best styles in a duel IMO.

Or if forced into direct contact, just fight using their own strength and still have precision, skill, aim? Or does being upclose in the fray make a makashi user lose intelligence....

It doesn't make them lose intelligence but the move set is less well suited for direct contact and different grips that give more strength may have less precision.

Originally posted by Q99
It doesn't make them lose intelligence but the move set is less well suited for direct contact and different grips that give more strength may have less precision.

Anyway, long story short is it was A LOT more difficult to beat him with my improvised Makashi when he was using that style for a few reasons. But the main one was that most of his hits were two-handed. I ended up losing my sword four times in about 25 minutes of sparring. So canonical applications aside, the practical applications support those conclusions.

In hindsight, I have no idea why I'm sharing this...lol

En, you've forgotten that the blades were not weightless. So your swords were trying to stop some amount of force (the mass of the blade times the acceleration of the blade).

Dooku doesn't have that problem.

A lightsaber blade still transfers kinetic energy...And that kinetic energy translates into newtons, and thus force.

Elaborate.

Originally posted by Red Nemesis
Elaborate.

Also, the field that caused the energy to arc back into the blade caused some gyroscopic effects. While technically weightless, the blade still had some resistance to changes in motion. The slight gyroscopic effects were easily controlled by a trained force user, but could become problematic for lay person."

I got that from Wookie, though.

inertia

I'm not really gonna criticize the "strong/fast" dichotomy between forms; the division is clearly useful (as it is seen onscreen) and nitpicking using real-world physix is a bigger waste of time than usual.

As Quanchi of the Comics Vs. would say...

Concession accepted. biscuits

What style would Obi-wan/Vader's fight in ANH constitute? Somebody earlier here said Makashi is a fencing style. Did both Vader and Kenobi use that on the Death Star? (granted the PT saber fights were much different than OT, and saber styles weren't classified around when the OT period was produced by GL, or were they?)

Vader's style was a custom blend of Form V and Form III. With elements of other forms mixed in. Although that hadn't been defined yet at the time of ANH.

Neither combatant's style even remotely resembles Makashi in that fight, though. It was definitely far from elegant.

Originally posted by Enyalus
A lightsaber blade still transfers kinetic energy...And that kinetic energy translates into newtons, and thus force.

Yea. The weight of a blade isn't the primary factor of how strong it hits, it's still carrying the force of the arm and body behind it.