Now that doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It's not like they swing around much faster than a normal (light-weight) sword would, so I don't see what would be needed that's special. Any it's not like we haven't seen normal people handle one - Han used one to cut open that animal thing on Hoth and he used it just fine.Mikey wrote:Supposedly, an ordinary (non-Force-sensitive) person can't wield a lightsaber at all. Sure, Greivous used four, but the longtime rap is that a person has to be Force-sensitive in order to use a lightsaber. From my limited understanding, the lack of any weight or mass to the blade necessitates Force-user reflexes - this may explain Greivous' ability to use them, as his cyborg reflexes could probably be handwaved as being far superior to baseline human (or baseline whatever he was before his cyborg-ification.)Graham Kennedy wrote:So here's a question... could an ordinary person be so skilled with a lightsabre that they could defeat a Jedi?
I can certainly believe it would take some training to use one properly if you were used to a normal sword, or that normals who used one tended to have a lot of "oops" moments that left limbs on the ground, buy impossible? No.