Shoto lightsaber

The shoto lightsaber or lightsaber shoto, commonly referred to as shotos, but also known as short lightsabers or lightdaggers, were essentially lightsabers with a shorter blade, whose purpose was primarily to serve as an off-hand weapon for those duelists seeking to employ the twin-bladed technique of Jar'Kai, but were also utilized by those Jedi and Sith whose stature made wielding full sized lightsabers impractical, or, in some cases, impossible.

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