Originally posted by quanchi112
He used tk to protect himself from falling so why not use it to disarm her.
Because he was ashamed of himself and very clearly not fighting at his best? He had cut himself off from the Force!
Put it this way: do you really think Luke fought Rey the same way he would've fought had Snoke been in front of him? If the answer is "no", then why does his performance against Rey under those emotional circumstances matter?
Edit laptop dying:
I'm on my phone so this is gonna be messy -
He jousted with her. So he was defending himself and he didn't have to kill her to do so.
I think this is akin to a movie where a guilty guy is just defending himself not fighting back when his much smaller spouse is hitting him - it doesn't imply his inability to restrain her, it's surrounded by a lot of context.
Put it this way: Han Solo or Leia would prob have Luke on his ass were they in Rey's place.
Well Kylo wasn't able to do so as they were force equals. You're right he was afraid she'd turn due to how powerful she was. He's only felt that raw strength twice before and it makes sense since the force equalized her force abilities to contend with the darkness rising in Kylo.
We see Ben with less training still effectively use tk on Luke to defend himself. Vader was of course more skilled than Rey he lacked her raw force power. Snoke in a direct use of force power humiliated her to the likes of which we have never seen someone with that level of raw power just moved at the whims of Snoke.
Disney went bigger in every single way as I predicted. [/B]
Well the Kylo vs Luke "fight" in the flashback is even less an indication of fighting ability than what we saw.