jousting

     

Jousting is a sport an an entertainment for the rich and noble. It consists of martial competition between two mounted knights using a variety of weapons, usually in sets of three per weapon (such as tilting with a lance, blows with the battle axe, strokes with the dagger, or strokes with a sword), often as part of a tournament.

Trivia about jousting

  • Organized combat between 2 mounted knights trying to unseat each other with blunted lances
  • This word for a tilting match comes from the Latin for "close together", "juxta"
  • (Sofia of the Clue Crew rides a carousel at the Santa Monica Pier.) In the 1600s an early type of carousel was used to train noblemen in this sport that uses lances
  • It's the state sport of Maryland, but competitors there ride at rings with their lances, not at each other
  • A dummy target called a quintain was used in practice tilts in preparation for this sport
  • A staircase in Prague Castle was built wide & shallow for mounted knights to enter for this competition
  • Favorite sport of Lancelot & friends
  • It's combat between 2 knights on horseback using lances

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