Jousting from The Jouster's POV

[@Kevinegan1]

When I was a kid my friends and I would ride up Sanderson's 5 & 10 (Five & Dime) store. We would go through the dumpster outback and take out the bad 10 ft fluorescent light tubes. The first time we did this my friends asked, what are we going to do with these? They posed that question to the wrong person. You guessed it, Jousting. We'de get going as fast as we could on our bicycles driving right at each other with a 10ft fluorescent tube locked into position under our arms. It was a lot of fun and I do not remember anyone ever getting seriously injured, which at the time was very common. We also played war with BB guns. Again it was fun but sometimes very painful. The sting of a BB was worse than any hornet sting but it added a degree of realism and incentive to use your head. We split into teams. One team would be on the hillside overlooking the railroad tracks below and was the high ground with our clubhouse and the other team on the other side of the tracks which had many large boulders to hide among. It got boring when it was soon discovered that though technically on the low side the boulders made it nearly impossible to hit anyone so it became a stalemate. Then one day I found behind a recently vacated house about two-dozen baby food jars that had been washed out. I immediately realized that this was the solution to the BB gun war stalemate problem. I told all my friends to get as much of these two items from their house as they could without their mom's noticing. The two items were bleach and ammonia. None of them had a clue what I was going to do but some soon found out the hard way. I filled those baby food jars with both ammonia and bleach and quickly capped them shut. During the next BB gun battle, I instructed my team, up on the hill, to lay down fire while our best throwing arm lobbed the homemade gas grenades down on the rocks where the other team thought they were safe. It took only seconds after half a dozen chlorine gas grenades exploded on the rocks before they came out gagging and coughing and just running off half-blind, snot running from their noses, in all directions. They were easy targets after that. I soon became that kid in the neighborhood that the other kid's mothers didn't want their kids to be around. BB gun wars, chlorine gas, Molotov Cocktails, Flour bombs, pipe bombs, Booby traps, Fluorescent Tube Jousting, Model Rocket Engine Scalping Traps, Black Powder in Ashtrays, Bullets in Campfires, and at least a hundred other cool ideas I had. All that was 40 years ago but if you ask any of us today we'll tell you we had the best childhood possible. When we all get together, which is rare now, we always go back to those days and laugh as we did then. The Budweiser Beer & Evan Williams Whiskey we drank back then could have floated a battleship. Those really were the days.

[@tsar_zo8007]

Wish I could've said the same about my childhood...

[@dld6959]

sounds FUN

[@ColoradoBirds]

Some real pyscho shit to type that all out

[@themanwithallthewrongopini3551]

@@ColoradoBirds when typing about something you love you can go on for hours

[@brownieonadownie7517]

Damn I wish we we were friends me and my friends tried to reenact the battle of bunker Hill with bb guns

[@jozebutinar44]

where can i sign

[@Johndaboss6725]

I have no idea man but you should look it up I’m thinking about doing it I’m only 12 tho

[@bro26mohw]

@@Johndaboss6725 you definitely can’t do it then lol

[@chickentenders8419]

@@Johndaboss6725 learn to ride a horse and if you can start practicing techniques

[@headshotnation921]

@@Johndaboss6725 don’t bro 😂

[@Noizzed]

​@@Johndaboss6725 Learn how to ride a horse first and maybe in 5 years you'll be legally able to get in one of these tournaments.

[@linming5610]

Imagine those running at full gallop. No wonder they are almost Invincible in the battlefield

[@antoniohinojos3808]

Well, contrary to popular depiction, horses were much smaller in those days. Force to be reckoned with but only when used properly.

[@Ren-lx8wv]

@@antoniohinojos3808 Not really they were about the same size as they are today. Ancient horses were much smaller. But we started breeding horses to ride around 7000 years ago. They were the same size as today throughout all of recorded human history.

[@joustmaster_69]

All i use is some janitors bucket with wheels and a broom. With a friend to help push the cart and you can be a budget jouster.

[@amandamilobooks]

This was so neat to see the jouster's perspective!! Thank you!

[@Sichel22]

thanks for uploading amazing to see something like this !

[@Stefa87]

I might get a job at the renaissance fair for the jousting thing

[@WJen8]

Has anyone ever died from jousting reenactments?

[@anakinskywalker5558]

Not with heavy armor

[@courchar]

this isn't reenactment, it's a legit league

[@therandomisedman9848]

The lances are very cute, compared to the real medieval lances used for jousting

[@matthewmansour2596]

Thanks!

[@user-bw4ec4bm2t]

Safety first man

[@krijelis]

Medieval tourneys definitely used decorated lances

[@therandomisedman9848]

@@user-bw4ec4bm2t sometimes, here in Australia, it is either “safety first” or “what could possibly go wrong”,or the most used “She’ll be right”

[@PrimarchRoboleonFrenchyman]

The lance they used were meant to break, proving that they got a good hit

[@Pedro8k]

Got to be way to hot under all that armour under the Arizona sun

[@leonardok9699]

His opponents armour looks sick 🔥

[@ZigzagEnd]

I hate that distortion

[@matthewmansour2596]

Don’t worry, be happy.

[@disfavored2654]

why edm

[@thedyingmeme6]

EDM is awesome

[@gurgle382]

@@thedyingmeme6 hell yeah! Well depends what...

[@macford3289]

He got Shield wow

[@alvideos2145]

stop slow motioning it =/

[@matthewmansour2596]

al videos no

[@mateiu76]

What if you accidentally hit the horse

[@matthewmansour2596]

We train to hit targets as small as 3/8 ths of an inch. The horses are quite far from the target area so it’s never happened or even come remotely close. If a freak accident happened then all concerned would of course be addressed.

[@reidb6327]

Don’t

[@ManticoreRO]

In all jousting competitions, hitting a horse is immediate disqualification. All of them train a lot to hit that very small target that is not the horse. Also the horse has armor too so yeah

[@BelegaerTheGreat]

Why the music!

[@thejousters1705]

Because six years ago it was free and seemed cool.