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A video posted by @daisyridley on Apr 25, 2016 at 10:37am PDT
these-are-the-first-steps:
these-are-the-first-steps:
That kind of heavy sword is used for strength training with a blade, so that when you use the real thing, it’ll feel way lighter in comparison, making you quicker and more deadly. Get ‘em, Daisy!!
Ok, I need to reblog this again because as someone who has some degree of iaido training (and I admit that has technically nothing to do with what she’s doing besides the basics of japanese sword fighting, i.e. directional swipes), her control is incredible. Her strength level is so high that she has complete control over that blade down to its fucking speed at any given twirl. Holy shit, Daisy. Holy SHIT.
My favorite part of this is imagining she goes on in her career to mostly playing in romantic comedies and like, political thrillers and whatever, and so never uses these skills again professionally, but literally every movie’s DVD extras includes at least one scene of, like, the female romantic lead suddenly doing sword-twirling tricks with a cardboard wrapping paper tube or whatever. Like, I GOT MY START IN STAR WARS NEVER FORGET IT. Sixty years from now she’s playing the Dowager Queen in a high-fantasy epic and she’s this frail beautiful ancient thing ensconced on a throne, and the director can’t resist and there’s totally a swordfight scene where 80something Daisy fucking wrecks everyone, because she got her start in Star Wars and don’t you forget it.
A video posted by @daisyridley on Apr 25, 2016 at 10:37am PDT
these-are-the-first-steps:
these-are-the-first-steps:
That kind of heavy sword is used for strength training with a blade, so that when you use the real thing, it’ll feel way lighter in comparison, making you quicker and more deadly. Get ‘em, Daisy!!
Ok, I need to reblog this again because as someone who has some degree of iaido training (and I admit that has technically nothing to do with what she’s doing besides the basics of japanese sword fighting, i.e. directional swipes), her control is incredible. Her strength level is so high that she has complete control over that blade down to its fucking speed at any given twirl. Holy shit, Daisy. Holy SHIT.
My favorite part of this is imagining she goes on in her career to mostly playing in romantic comedies and like, political thrillers and whatever, and so never uses these skills again professionally, but literally every movie’s DVD extras includes at least one scene of, like, the female romantic lead suddenly doing sword-twirling tricks with a cardboard wrapping paper tube or whatever. Like, I GOT MY START IN STAR WARS NEVER FORGET IT. Sixty years from now she’s playing the Dowager Queen in a high-fantasy epic and she’s this frail beautiful ancient thing ensconced on a throne, and the director can’t resist and there’s totally a swordfight scene where 80something Daisy fucking wrecks everyone, because she got her start in Star Wars and don’t you forget it.
