I didn’t see real-life sport jousting until I was 37, at a festival in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. I was instantly attracted to the sport and immediately inquired about learning. However, it ...
LEONARDTOWN — “The rings are hung; the track is clear. Charge, fair maiden.” Upon the announcer’s command, Mikayla Miller of St. Leonard, aboard the horse Tyke, raced down an 80-foot jousting course, ...
McDADE — Thundering down a narrow lane at 30 miles an hour, 2,500 pounds of man, horse and armor drives a lance at another man doing the exact same thing. A mighty crash later, two knights are ...
As England's only amateur jousting league gets under way, more and more people are spending their weekends clad in armour brandishing a 4m-long weapon. They risk broken bones, bruises and even ...