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Is that a man taking his knight for a walk? Indeed it is.
That amongst many crazy things happen at a Jousting competition I found out.
As it turns out, Jousting did not die out in 16th Century, but lives today through the every populate movie ‘A Knights Tale’, and of course a very much real Jousting competition. ‘King Henry’s Tudor Joust’ was filled with Medieval sports and exhibitions and people dressed in the costume of the day.

The highlight of the day was obviously the Jousting. Although I thought initially it would be with Nurf Lances, it was in fact very real lances, which looked quite painful when thurst at the body on a horse travelling at speed. There guys really much be crazy. I suspect that many of them would make great Cowboys at a rodeo.

On further inpection there is a International Jousting Association set up for modern day Jousting which has strict guidelines for the quality and authenticity of jousters’ armour & equipment. So here I was thinking this is a crazy once off affair, may infact be a common sport in the UK.
Be sure to look out for a Joust in your area.