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David Schade of the New Riders of the Golden Age gets his helm removed after a match during a jousting tournament at Sherwood Forest Faire in McDade, Feb. 28, 2015.
He said the helmet, called a Great Helm, was suitable only for carnival jousting, as its eye holes were too big and the top part of it, above the eyes, protruded more than the part below the eyes ...
At one point, the marshals threatened to report a competitor to the RSPCA for knocking a wooden seagull from the top of his rival’s helm. Indeed while jousting is becoming an increasingly ...
Antonio Hernandez picked up his first lance just last week, but no one at the annual jousting tournament in the genteel Virginia town of Hume could tell he was a rookie. In practice heats, he was ...
Jousting could be taken to the Tokyo Olympics in 2020. It was last a popular pastime when Henry VIII was on the throne, but now English Heritage, a charity that looks after 400 of England's ...
Now he puts on 70 pounds of armor and gallops with a lance in the medieval sport called jousting Raven Eastwood, 23, used to compete in rodeos. Click here for important updates to our privacy policy.
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Jouster Charlie Andrews says that getting hit with a solid wooden lance "feels like a head-on collision with another car and you don't have your seat belt on." ...
The most extreme style, called "heavy jousting," is where the purpose is to knock your opponent from the horse. "It's dangerous," said Fourtzialas. "There's maybe 60 people in the world who do that." ...