Faith is the heroism of the intellect.
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
CONTENT INFORMATION
Saber Kata, a portmanteau of Lightsaber and self defense is a style of sophisticated close-quarters melee combat resembling a martial arts battle that combines lightsabers with hand-to-hand combat and traditional melee weapons in an approximately 50/50 ratio. It can be seen as chain fighting, one move setting up the next, all to potentially open up a chance to end the confrontation with a lightsaber.
The focus of saber kata is both artistic style(to an extent) and the usage of lightsabers in ways that they were not designed to be used. Use of a lightsaber in either hand (usually paired with jumping to the side at the same time), dual wielding, attacks and defenses from behind the back, as well as the use of lightsabers both activated and inert (usually knife fights) are all common. Other moves can involve lightwhips, lightsaber pikes, saberstaffs, lights-shotos, and just about anything else that can be worked into a combat scenario. It is often mixed with grappling maneuvers.
Saber Kata has become a staple of Vanagor's "arsenal" not because of its effectiveness but due to its simplicity, a result of often impressive instincts and physical prowess, regardless of its surrounding elements when compared to other types of martial arts and close quarters warfare.
"Completely geared around mastery of the lightsaber regardless of the form, this method makes a lightsaber truly an extension of the user. Students are only taught the basics of surviving a duel: stay constantly moving, attack until your opponent is down (preferably from as close a distance as possible), count your moves. When you are out of position don't hesitate to find another angle or method of attack instead of taking the time to get back to where you were forced out of. If you are hit don't think about it till you're down or your enemies are, never panic and above all keep your opponent on the defensive. Once a student has learned the basics the only way for him to advance in his art is through combat, so beginners don't stay beginners long, they are either downed or they become better. A master is a truly magnificent sight in a lightsaber battle."
The user of this ability is capable of calculating the most precise angle for targeting an opponent and predicting where to be in order to avoid counter-attack by the enemy. This, combined with good form results in the most proficient combatant of the modern age, a brawler, a martial artist, a warrior that uses lightsabers along with what he has naturally. The best combatants are still bound by a form of the Jedi Code, but still handle themselves in a scenario that plays to their strengths and not their emotions. Some lightsaber forms require focused use of the Force and possible domination of or by it but practitioners of Saber Kata, once a level of Mastery is exhibited counter the consequence of the lightsaber form because of the natural feel of the melee technique.
The defenses, the movements, they are designed to be so natural and free flowing thatany and all emotions are taken completely out of any equation. This is not to say that the wielder will not feel them, but that there will be no risk of being controlled by them.
TIER I Techniques:
(moves marked with dashes in the middle are chain moves)
Kick- Hilt jab
Punch,
Sidestep - Slash
Shin block - Revers grip swipe
Joint break,
Rooted stance block - tight throw
Forearm block - body takedown
Elbow - Weapon strike
Combatative weave - hilt uppercut - whirling slash
TIER 2 Techniques:
(moves marked with dashes in the middle are chain moves)
Angle step - Knee strike - weapon strike
Open hand bash
Earthquake punch - weapon strike
Close distance - paralyzing strike
Leg takedown - backward rollthrough - weapon strike
Free hand hook - weapon strike
"1-2" punch combination - reverse grip strike
TIER 3 Techniques:
(moves marked with dashes in the middle are chain moves)
Combining Tier 1 and 2 movements with preferred lightsaber form
Misalign attack
Ocean wave sweep - Whirlwind weapon strike
Swift-Strike - Side-Step - Overhead strike
Pressure-Strike,
Water-Flow throw
Triple Strike, hilt uppercut - backstep
The Octagon takedown
Snap Throw
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
It is difficult to teach one particular Martial Art, or one particular Lightsaber form when you are proficient in several of each. It has become one of the things that make Caltin Vanagor more or less unapproachable (to which he hates). Thus as he was less and less "trying to fight" and just "fighting" the big man started to go with what he was comfortable with and not using one particular technique or form, just what made him comfortable. More and more what came along was a method that Vanagor was finding himself more and more able to teach. The first attempt was a real (censored) show, but that is okay, those things happen. So he had been working on this holocron in his free time since. The purpose of it was that once you were permitted to learn (you have to answer a specific set of questions) you will be matched up with techniques that fit your personality and body type. The method is quite literally custom made for each user. Or at least that is the hope.
His ultimate goal is to allow Jedi to reach their goals offensively and learn methods that will save their lives without worry of their emotions controlling them, if they are using these techniques as intended, they won't even have to try to do anything. They just will.
- Intent: To create an original fighting style unique to Caltin Vanagor and those to whom wished to learn.
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- Canon: Teras Kasi, Rek Dul, and Broken Gate elements are all sampled, so in a manner of speaking, "yes" this is canon.
- Permissions: My Subs
- Links: Teras Kasi, Rek Dul, and Broken Gate
- Holocron Name: "The Way of the Saber" (Saber Kata)
- Alignment: Neutral
- Origin:
Caltin Vanagor
- Affiliation:
Caltin Vanagor
- Gatekeeper: The Keeper is the massive Jedi Master himself. If you activate the Holocron and see him, you will have to answer several questions, if you do not satisfy him, it will deactivate.
- Description: This holocron was created to document Vanagor's efforts in creating a new fighting style. This is not a specific "Martial Art" but a style perse that accentuates and compliments the physical strengths and capabilities of the student. It is not something that will enhance them or their Force Capabilities (though the student does need to be attune to the Force to be able to learn this) it will enhance their reflexes and instincts.
- Accessibility: Activate the Holocron and answer the questions posed honestly.
- Security: If it gets broken, then it gets broken. Otherwise if you do not answer the questions that the gatekeeper poses satisfactorily it will shut down until being reset by Vanagor himself (or someone he teaches how to reset it)
CONTENT INFORMATION
Saber Kata, a portmanteau of Lightsaber and self defense is a style of sophisticated close-quarters melee combat resembling a martial arts battle that combines lightsabers with hand-to-hand combat and traditional melee weapons in an approximately 50/50 ratio. It can be seen as chain fighting, one move setting up the next, all to potentially open up a chance to end the confrontation with a lightsaber.
The focus of saber kata is both artistic style(to an extent) and the usage of lightsabers in ways that they were not designed to be used. Use of a lightsaber in either hand (usually paired with jumping to the side at the same time), dual wielding, attacks and defenses from behind the back, as well as the use of lightsabers both activated and inert (usually knife fights) are all common. Other moves can involve lightwhips, lightsaber pikes, saberstaffs, lights-shotos, and just about anything else that can be worked into a combat scenario. It is often mixed with grappling maneuvers.
Saber Kata has become a staple of Vanagor's "arsenal" not because of its effectiveness but due to its simplicity, a result of often impressive instincts and physical prowess, regardless of its surrounding elements when compared to other types of martial arts and close quarters warfare.
"Completely geared around mastery of the lightsaber regardless of the form, this method makes a lightsaber truly an extension of the user. Students are only taught the basics of surviving a duel: stay constantly moving, attack until your opponent is down (preferably from as close a distance as possible), count your moves. When you are out of position don't hesitate to find another angle or method of attack instead of taking the time to get back to where you were forced out of. If you are hit don't think about it till you're down or your enemies are, never panic and above all keep your opponent on the defensive. Once a student has learned the basics the only way for him to advance in his art is through combat, so beginners don't stay beginners long, they are either downed or they become better. A master is a truly magnificent sight in a lightsaber battle."
The user of this ability is capable of calculating the most precise angle for targeting an opponent and predicting where to be in order to avoid counter-attack by the enemy. This, combined with good form results in the most proficient combatant of the modern age, a brawler, a martial artist, a warrior that uses lightsabers along with what he has naturally. The best combatants are still bound by a form of the Jedi Code, but still handle themselves in a scenario that plays to their strengths and not their emotions. Some lightsaber forms require focused use of the Force and possible domination of or by it but practitioners of Saber Kata, once a level of Mastery is exhibited counter the consequence of the lightsaber form because of the natural feel of the melee technique.
The defenses, the movements, they are designed to be so natural and free flowing thatany and all emotions are taken completely out of any equation. This is not to say that the wielder will not feel them, but that there will be no risk of being controlled by them.
TIER I Techniques:
(moves marked with dashes in the middle are chain moves)
Kick- Hilt jab
Punch,
Sidestep - Slash
Shin block - Revers grip swipe
Joint break,
Rooted stance block - tight throw
Forearm block - body takedown
Elbow - Weapon strike
Combatative weave - hilt uppercut - whirling slash
TIER 2 Techniques:
(moves marked with dashes in the middle are chain moves)
Angle step - Knee strike - weapon strike
Open hand bash
Earthquake punch - weapon strike
Close distance - paralyzing strike
Leg takedown - backward rollthrough - weapon strike
Free hand hook - weapon strike
"1-2" punch combination - reverse grip strike
TIER 3 Techniques:
(moves marked with dashes in the middle are chain moves)
Combining Tier 1 and 2 movements with preferred lightsaber form
Misalign attack
Ocean wave sweep - Whirlwind weapon strike
Swift-Strike - Side-Step - Overhead strike
Pressure-Strike,
Water-Flow throw
Triple Strike, hilt uppercut - backstep
The Octagon takedown
Snap Throw
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
It is difficult to teach one particular Martial Art, or one particular Lightsaber form when you are proficient in several of each. It has become one of the things that make Caltin Vanagor more or less unapproachable (to which he hates). Thus as he was less and less "trying to fight" and just "fighting" the big man started to go with what he was comfortable with and not using one particular technique or form, just what made him comfortable. More and more what came along was a method that Vanagor was finding himself more and more able to teach. The first attempt was a real (censored) show, but that is okay, those things happen. So he had been working on this holocron in his free time since. The purpose of it was that once you were permitted to learn (you have to answer a specific set of questions) you will be matched up with techniques that fit your personality and body type. The method is quite literally custom made for each user. Or at least that is the hope.
His ultimate goal is to allow Jedi to reach their goals offensively and learn methods that will save their lives without worry of their emotions controlling them, if they are using these techniques as intended, they won't even have to try to do anything. They just will.
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