Royal Armouries Joust 2007 (CLIP), August, pt 2

Dominic Sewell strikes Steve Mallett really hard hit on the second day of the 2007 Queen's Jubilee Trophy Joust at the Royal Armouries Leeds. This is a brilliant example of professionalism amongst the foot crew, showing calm and control in a potentially adverses situation. ©2007 Gwen Nowrick-- All rights reserved.

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Sports

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• jousting
• joust
• lance
• armour
• armor
• knight
• tilt
• tilting
• royal
• armouries
• medieval

[GhostX1200]

Did i hear that right? Strikes to the head are disallowed? And people wonder why the masses dont take this sport seriously.

[historicent]

@GhostX1200 Plenty of people take the sport very seriously, spectator and competitor alike. If you've not jousted you shouldn't comment about it in such a way.

[historicent]

Not all stallions. There aren't that many jousting stallions around. Two of them were.

All the horses really get excited and enjoy their job. They're well trained and very much like jousting.

[lakotadak]

is it fake blod

[historicent]

there's no blood. We're professionals.  ;-)

[FinalFreek]

here can you see if you can get a video of cavelry over the years which is a show they hold in the tilting yard please becuase i'd love to see what they do.

[historicent]

Sorry, but we're only there for the tournaments, since I participate in them, and they don't do the normal cavalry shows during those times. Best for you to visit the museum and see the show for yourself.

[skintrade]

Very cool

[pallaminopal29]

Go Steve although Alcon would love this haha u need to train him to be a jousting horse he would love it

[SuperSylar1]

@historicent well I have Jousted in a small town in Poland and they used the same old rules 1 for the chest, 2 for the head, and three for dismounting a knight. We used Oak lances which are much heavier and more difficult to shatter. Technique had to be used such as tilting. That gets people to watch when knights fly off their horse, or take a blow to the head.

[Youngmarine0109]

I think they should have the same exact rules and lances as " A knights tale" did...

[Skringly]

@VikingWannaBe51887 Cheers.

[VikingWannaBe51887]

@Skringly

lots of Money and time lol. No in all seriousness you can go to the royal armouries web site and look it up. They hold pole axe foot combat as well as jousting. Currently I'm working on my harness and hope to attend within the next 7 years of so

[Skringly]

How do you get into this? I've always wanted to joust.