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I have once more returned to the whimiscal land of SD.NET, where myth makes the science, fools are punished, and a good light-hearted insult here or there hurts no one. Some may remember me, others not.

Why is it that the hand-laser-block is never used by any other Jedi/Sith in the SW saga? Imagine a Jedi absorbing blaser bolts with his hand, while flinging physical objects at foes, AND slicing up guys with a lightsaber. Unless it is unpractical to wield a saber in one hand a use the other for laser-blocking and other Force-assited powers, I see no reason why it is ignored throughout the enitre saga (save Vaders run-in with Han in TESB).

It could have proven life-saving at the disatrous Battle of Geonosis, where Jedi could have absorbed blasts with their hands and deflected them with their lightsabers.

Is this technique only a dark-side power? Is it too strenuous for most (seeing as Vader is unusually strong in the Force), or does it require too much effort to be worth it in such fast paced fights, such as Geonosis?

People who can do it will(Corran Horn) have to be pretty much stationary and they can do it only from one way if its concentrated enough meaning running/gunning very hard to do

Yoda did almost the same trick in AOTC, and it looked like it took alot of concentration to pull off.

Using the movie ESB and it's novelisation (along with an earlier thread) it seems Vader was quasi using the Force. We only see sparks shoot out from his hand in the movie. However the book makes it very plain that his gauntlet not only blocked the shot, but defelcted them into the wall. Go figure.


Welcome back btw!

I vaguely recall you, welcome back.

Vader is one of the most powerful force users that have ever lived, he gets special perks like deflecting blaster bolts with his hands

it probably takes too much concentration to do it so the jedi cannot do it while running, fighting, deflecting blasts with sabers, ect.

by the way i don't know who you are but welcome back anyway