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we're at River Sports San Francisco and we're going to check out the lightsaber combat academy let's go Hey my name is Roy I'm one of the instructors here at Luna Sports San Francisco we've been teaching classes here since October 2000 little sport is a lightsaber combat sport that was created by three friends who saw lightsabers a lot of them had experience with martial arts but they thought what if the lightsaber were a real thing so the blade would be weightless for the 300 degree cutting edge but all you can control is the hilt we're waiting for the technology to catch up when that comes out will you say in this class most people at this point have their own savers for at-home practice and outside class sparring they are built to be combat durable they're made from aircraft grade aluminum with a polycarbonate blade it has enough to give that it doesn't bounce but it's sturdy enough that it's not going to break definitely do get a lot of exercise out of it it's a lot of moving it's a lot of dancing around similar to like boxing and how you gotta move around I really like this class I think it's very interesting and family yeah they told me how to position and how to attack people and how to protect yourself I didn't know it was like that in a real sport I didn't think it even existed but I think it's really cool it gets people out gets people doing something that really enjoy doing and you have the nostalgia of having grown up in Star Wars so it's kind of like a feel-good but you get some working out it's awesome it's really fun a lot more technical than I expected it's not just picking up glowy sticks and fashioning each other with them different techniques that were very specific it was a really good workout mostly lower body stuff of course when someone's like chasing you a lifesaver I hate going to a gym so this seems like a way more fun alternatives