'Then we started asking ourselves: How could that toy be used for sport?'Īfter three years of studying the films, texts and lore of Star Wars - and consulting with a menage of martial arts experts to 'reverse engineer' techniques from movie clips - LudoSport was born. 'Suddenly we moved outside to strike each other with the lightsabers,' he continues. 'We started to play like kids,' Longo recalls in a promotional video for LudoSport ('A Story of Light: Part One'). As the story goes, Fabio, Gianluca and Simone were hanging out a birthday party when they began messing around with replica lightsabers. LudoSport was founded 13 years ago by three Italian men - Fabio Monticelli, Gianluca Longo and Simone Spreafico - all friends, all schooled in various martial arts techniques.
