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| Darth Maul - Apprentice to Darth Sidious |
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| Lord Darth Maul Maul uses a unique weapon. His long hilted lightsabre provides both advantage and disadvantage. The long hilt provides considerable reach – which in itself is of limited value against a skilled opponent, but the longer hilt allows for greater leverage – which has its uses. Its very length however is a hindrance and obliges him to employ mostly diagonal and horizontal strikes. We see a ‘quick draw’ attack from the weapons resting place on his left hip employed against QuiGonn Jinn in the trailer ... it is a KESA-GIRI type upward diagonal slash – a fast, powerful and devastating technique. Jinn ducks the attack just in time. The surprise however, is that Maul’s staff has a blade at EACH end. When fully activated he is armed with a bizarre hafted lightstaff. The double-sabre provides awesome abilities in parry and riposte (defence and counter attack) as the defending swipe brings the second blade up in counter attack in one motion ... HOWEVER as lightsabre blades are sharp all over, it is a considerable menace to himself! As a result, many of the traditional hafted-weapon techniques are NOT available to him – he cannot shift his grip down the shaft, he cannot allow the shaft to rest alongside his body! He maintains a horizontal stance with this weapon in the trailer footage and in the www.starwars.com rehearsal footage the dominance of horizontal actions is confirmed. Maul must employ considerable strength and VERY athletic, almost balletic, body movements to parry attacks without allowing his weapons ‘butt-end’ to be deflected into his own body. He is seen in the rehearsal footage to use dance-like spins and whirls to skip away from his opponents. Maul would require quite a lot of free space to use this ‘staff-mode’ effectively. In confined spaces, he should revert to the single blade which allows SOME vertical motions. I believe that his staff can be broken down into two single sabres, which would allow Maul to fight ni-to as the Japanese call it. Sadly, I don't believe we will ever get to see him do this in the film. What can I say about Maul? Despite his questionable taste in exotic weapons, I have to admit that he has the skill to use them - and to spare! |
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