Originally posted by Beniboybling
You've mistaken anger for amusement friend, now I look forward to yourAIDS-tierresponse. 🙂
You seem to have calmed down now, yes. But the abrupt dismissal beforehand didn't do much to veil that blatant vitriol. If you could just keep those mood-swings stable, then I see no reason why this can't be an insightful, enjoyable and more importantly, safe experience for both of us.
Which doesn't necessarily translate into better duelists, not when you account for hundreds of potential instructors dying on the battlefield, the need for practical killing forms vs more complex techniques they have not the time to develop, and the fact that they lost vast amounts of knowledge and instructional material during the Sacking of Coruscant.
So essentially Beniboying, having a group of individuals more prepped for battle and more focused lightsaber-to-lightsaber engagements... doesn't make them better than those who're almost solely training for blasters? There isn't even the need to Strawman this. You want to avoid something that should be common sense, that could be compared to the most obvious analogies, and disregard it because... personal bias? Yes, I'm going to assume the bygone Jedi were better than their successors, because it's the most logical and simple assumption, and one that doesn't require arm-chair theory to disprove. The fact is, The Old Republic Jedi and Sith had to experience far harsher environments, even in infancy. Jedi Kindergartens like Thython, are already a breeding ground for more danger than most PT Jedi will ever experience. Occams Razor Beni. The simplest explanation, the one with the fewest assumptions will trump anything else. And you want to accuse others of conjecture? Laughable.
Imagine being the key term as this is a nonsensical fantasy. Even in their day Dooku & Windu were prodigies; and having been recognised as some of the greatest lightsaber masters the Order has ever produced, are clearly not at all common.
They're recognized as some of the most skilled among their piers, but that doesn't make them special in the bigger picture. It makes them big - well trained - fish fighting in a small pond of backsratchers.
After the Sith War? You mean when the Jedi Order had all but been decimated? And during the New Sith Empire period? You mean the Republic Dark Ages when they'd been reduced to conscripting children and using medieval weaponry? Unlikely.
After the Exar Kun War Beni, and they weren't all but decimated there.
On the other hand the peak of the Jedi golden age, when they'd had 1,000 years of unprecedented peace to develop and improve on their combat techniques in preparation for the next Sith incursion, that produced many Jedi regarded as some of the best in the Order's history, seems like a strong candidate.
Advancement of techniques? Let's see, there is the evolved version of Juyo used by three people and restricted to everyone else. That's it. The theory of the next sith excursion is contradicted by 'Labyrinth of evil' stating that the Jedi were comfortable in their era of galactic peace-time and hadn't the second thought for Sith intrusion. Which is why they were focusing on diplomacy, study, other non-violent means and hadn't fought anyone for a thousand years.
Which as has already been pointed out, was just as frequent in the Old Republic era.
There is nothing in the TOR on par with the humiliation Jango dished-out on Galadrian.
And and as we know from the Great Jensaarai, "those exaggerated sweeping slashes" are the trademark of somebody who doesn't no the next thing about lightsaber to lightsaber combat.
Unlike you Beni, I don't take solace in nitpicking combat-choreography. If you want to stick with Jensarai's rationalizations for why the producers want to make things look as special as they can, than all the better for my point. The Idea still stands, though.