User blog comment:Leolab/Retroactive Unfair Battle Enforcement/@comment-6771148-20130506040205/@comment-4484220-20130507010758

We only see Mace Windu relying on his light saber skills because the situations where he's shown in such media are primarily appropriate for it. Mace Windu may be an important character in the Star Wars univers, but he's not one of the leading ones. I'm sure that if the prequel trilogy followed him as cloesely as it does Anakin and Obi-Wan, we'd see him exhibit some of the common force powers used by jedi. Unless I am much mistaken, the Jedi Council doesn't appoint members based soley on light saber skills, but rather by the combination of that, and force power.

If you really want me to name points during which he at least implies that he possesses force powers like that of many other jedi, then I will point to episode II where Jango Fett lights his robe on fire, then Mace Windu jumps off of a large ledge while shedding his robe, and uses the force to properly land so that he doesn't die when he hits the ground. I'll also name the time in episode III when Palpatine shoots his force lightning at Mace who absorbs it with his light saber. Yes, he did use his light saber to do it, which probably made his job easiers, but I'd be surprised if simply holding it there was the only thing that did it with no use of the force involved in absorbing it. And yes, Palpatine was holding back some in order to get defeated and stage the situation in order to turn Anakin over, but he also maintained a balance by making his lighting just powerful enough to keep Windu occupied long enough for Anakin's arrival.