Half a second before Kina starts to turn on the blasters, Sinube makes a crisp turn and begins walking in the other direction, at the same pace as before. Any stray blasts that Kina had fired behind him will land on his lightsaber, which is angled precisely to send them straight back to Kina. And if she's not too distracted by the oncoming fire, and starts sending more blasts at where he's now going, well, he'll ever so slightly quicken his pace to just barely move in front of the main streams of lasers, and deflect the remaining few bolts back in her direction.

It is not only Tera Sinube who can play at the precognitively-dodging-blasterbolts game, however, and Kina takes two precisely-calibrated steps as she dances through the raindrops.  How quickly can he react to the stream that he was fleeing ending up in front of him, Kina's facing turned just so to poke the turret out safely while twice-reflected bolts spall over the arena from shield deflections and drones sweep fire beneath his feet?

It's not necessarily being quick that counts; it's his foresight. His lightsaber is often already where it needs to be before the shots have even been fired. And then so is his other lightsaber. And yet there are still a lot of blaster bolts. "Maybe I should get myself a few shields," chuckles Sinube. He lifts the four drones with the Force into the way of Kina's other blasters.

If he wants to give her a perfect opportunity to fire twelve blaster bolts at him in total synchrony, that's his decision!  She'll let him think he got one over on her as the stream of green bolts cuts out, and follow up with her patent-pending saber-breaker blaster septet as she brackets his position with drone-fire!  (And if he tries to jump, well, the gatling blaster is still spinning.)

With the drones keeping Kina from firing her own shots, Sinube is able to deflect the bolts from the drones, and with a few calm movements, slice through each of his flying enemies. (Well, he's actually just triggering the mechanisms on the drones that shut them down when they sense connection with a training lightsaber, but for the purposes of the spar, he's sliced through them.

He is not quite as prepared to block the giant blast from Kina's... lightsaber gun. He manages to just barely knock it out of the way, but the impulse sends him staggering back, and he's a little off balance.

And Kina seizes the opportunity to shoot him again, both with the drones he's 'cutting' through - as he cuts through them, Kina just holding the triggers down - and with all her guns.

Sinube can't deflect all of those in time, but he manages to leap over the blasts and land on the other side of Kina.

...he really shouldn't have done that, because unless he's really good at midair deflection, Kina can shoot him from below with ease.

Especially since he's going over her head!

What was he thinking?  Was he thinking?  He sacrificed the one thing that could keep his deflections stable, and put himself on a predictable trajectory!

Kina spins around in a heartbeat, but she rather thinks that this match is over.

He is fairly good at deflection, even in midair, but the predictable trajectory thing means he ends up running into one of the bolts as he lands.

There's a brief pause, and then most of the younglings watching start to cheer.

"Well fought, Master Sinube."

Kina bows politely; it seems like the right thing to do.

A still very surprised Sinube will slowly nod, his eyes narrowed.

Kina is - very politely confused at why Master Sinube is looking at her like that.

"Well, now that we've shown off our best efforts - do you think it would have been easier to block some of that with a shield?  That was the original premise of this spar, after all."

Because she just beat him! She's a kid! Even if she's a pretty talented kid, he's a Jedi Master!

Sinube winces, and sighs. "Well, perhaps."

Even Jedi Masters are not immune to geometry, though Kina's honestly impressed with how well he held up under all that.

"So... does this mean we do get shields?" asks Bultar.

"Well... I suppose so... maybe you should take this to the Council."

"I suppose I'd best go find Master Windu."

Master Windu is findable.

"Master Tera Sinube and I had a bit of a spar today, over a question of whether lightsabers were totally effective at blaster deflection.  The answer was no, and the various younglings and Padawans with whom I had originally brought up the subject now want shields of their own.

"These aren't my own original design, though I would credit myself with substantial innovation in the deployment mechanisms, and I'd rather not annoy the Gungans who did come up with these designs by making false copies, so I'm bringing the matter to your attention in case there's something I'm missing about either the Order's policies on equipment or galactic trade law."

"So you... are you saying you shot Tera Sinube in a sparring match, to demonstrate that the rest of the younglings should get energy shields. And now you want us to go talk to the Gungans and make sure they're okay with this, and then give all the younglings energy shields - Kina, why do you keep doing things like this?"

"...I'm not sure what you mean by 'things like this', so I can't give you an answer of the quality that I would prefer?"

"Just... all of this! Everything that happened with Tatooine and the Sith Lord, challenging Master Yoda's curriculum, having Force visions that summon Sith, the whole fight with Palpatine, the clones, making political agreements with Count Dooku, the vision in the cave with the Sith you - why do so many of these involve Sith and visions - and that's not even half of what you've gotten involved in. And yes, my question is answering itself, I know most of this has ended up making things a lot better for us, but could you possibly try to do... whatever it is you do... without so much chaos?"

Windu sighs, and drops his forehead to his desk. "I'll talk to the rest of the Council, and I guess the Gungans, and see if we can get a few shields here. But I'm not promising anything about the other students getting to keep them for too long. Rates of Jedi getting shot are very low. I don't know what happened with you and Sinube, but I'm guessing it involved a lot more creativity than actual combat conditions ever include."

"So if I can swing this with the Council and Gungans, we can try out teaching people to use shields for a bit. But I don't expect it to actually be all that helpful, and if after a while it's not helping people's combat abilities, we're not keeping them."

"I can't say I wasn't being creative, so, that's fair.  All the same - I can't help but wonder if Master Trebor would have survived Tatooine, if he had one.

"As far as measuring if the shields help in combat, do - test under high volumes of fire; the - original reason I wanted one of these was the geometric impossibility of guaranteeing you can make two lines intersect five randomly selected points.  Because, with enough incoming fire, eventually there will be five, or three, or however-many, blaster bolts coming at you simultaneously.  Sooner, if your enemies are smart.

"...I'll get you a copy of the plans for the modified quick-deploying version I worked out.  That will hopefully impress Otoh Gunga a bit.

"And as far as chaos - isn't it the Order's official position that there is no chaos, there is harmony?"  She grins.  "I'll try to tone it down for you, though."

Windu will leave, then, and talk to the rest of the Council.