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“The Weapon of a Jedi Knight”: Lightsaber Combat as a Hyper-Real Martial Art

By Benjamin N. Judkins, Ph.D. and Jared Miracle, Ph.D. Lightsaber Combat as a Global Movement In February of 2019 the French Fencing Federation (Fédération Française d’Escrime or FFE) made the news. Stories were run in many major magazines and the comedian Trevor Noah even graced the FFE with a Daily Show segment. Yet the topic of debateContinue reading ““The Weapon of a Jedi Knight”: Lightsaber Combat as a Hyper-Real Martial Art”