Like fencing, Bladetoberfest is a lightsaber combat fighting tournament with 30 to 50 participants squaring off against one another. This is the second year the tournament has been in Wausau, ...

Do or do not. There is no try. That’s the approach I took last year when I decided I wanted to learn to fight with a lightsaber for real. Or…as real as I could get, anyway. I’m pretty ...

The rules of a lightsaber battle are simple: strike your opponent anywhere but the blade, and you get a point. Whoever gets the most points in a set — usually of three or five — wins.

Anakin Skywalker’s fateful words echoed through my head this week when news broke that lightsaber fighting is now officially recognized as a real sport. I mean, I know it’s a real sport ...

It probably happens every year at your company picnic: Craig from accounting gets a little too tipsy and starts challenging co-workers to a lightsaber combat tournament. OK, fine, that has never ...

In this Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019, photo, competitor battles during the national lightsabers tournament in Beaumont-sur-Oise, north of Paris. In France, lightsaber fighting is an official sport ...

Members train in seven lightsaber fighting styles from the Star Wars universe. The club meets every Wednesday at Woodland Park beginning at 6:30 p.m. and new members are welcome.