Sherwood Forest Faire 2011-Full Contact Jousting

After seeing this the joust at TRF and Scarborough seem rather tame and on Apr 9 there will be a full contact tourney with a $20,000 purse. I'm gonna be there for sure! For Still Shots and more Faire photos visit my website.
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[@tomclarke9786]

The black knight always triumphs !

[@codyleejones5317]

I love this but it seems like the horses should have chest, face, and eye protection. They certainly do in medieval/renaissance depictions of jousting.

[@GnonplussedGnome]

There are many variations, this is one of them. Never seen a horse injured but have see knights give blood a couple of times.

[@psykopanda11]

Need a better fence first.

[@faramund9865]

Yeah if someone accidentally drops their lance too low... Yikes. Or maybe the broken lance can do weird things too.

[@Honeysucklebommie]

This is the real balls of steel.

[@bobotea1234]

should be an Olympic sport

[@sameer745100]

please make wider lanes and do it like they did back in the day with wooden middeles

[@psykopanda11]

Agreed! That rope fence sucks. It just keeps falling over..

[@gypsyjoe119]

Full Metal Jousting brought me here.

[@gusb6703]

The horses are supposed to be at a gallop, they need to have much longer and wider lanes for this to be as cool as it could be.

[@GnonplussedGnome]

Actually the lanes are regulation length and width and remember these are not Thoroughbred or quarter horses they are more like an M-60 tank

[@psykopanda11]

@@GnonplussedGnome Wrong. Im sure Quarter horses are a modern american breed. Horses like the warlander, percheron, andalusian, friesian, spanish norman, the iberian , irish draught, frederiksborger, ginetta, kladruber, lipizzan, lusitano, menorquin, murgese, neapolitan and the shire horse are all direct decendants of medival coursers and rounceys. Horses like the shire who is the biggest breed in the world decend from the heaviest class of war horses but they were also used for heavy work like pulling carts and timber ofcourse which today has become their only job sadly..

[@psykopanda11]

Yes and if you want full realism you should also use realy energetic and aggressive minded steeds instead of slow low energy castrated males and the grumpy disobedient mares that is usualy seen everywhere nowadays..

[@GnonplussedGnome]

@@psykopanda11 Believe me that is NOT a quarter horse

[@RedJohnO22]

Thanks Gnome fer tha quick response ;). CHEERS!!

[@kimdkus]

This is so cool!! Much better than the reenactments. I too wish it were an Olympic sport and more popular.

[@lacidroll9429]

Just out of curiosity (I'm new to jousting), do the horses wear body/eye protection during these events? I was looking at when the lance broke apart and went flying (first round). I'd think it'd be a concern of those pieces flying up and hitting the horse in the eye. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[@arayashikinoshaka]

The horses do not wear eye protection, however, the impact of the lances happen above and beyond the horses heads, also, when shattering happens, 1. Both horses are moving at full speed past each other 2. Both lances are past both horses' heads. The only real danger the horses face is if they recieve a direct hit from the lance, which will not happen

[@DarkValorWolf]

the first reply to this is right, though I have also seen tournaments where they did wear head protection just for extra safety

[@RedJohnO22]

Either way cheers to all of ya lads and ta Sherwood!!!

[@Aikidobear129]

Great video! I would love to watch something like this in real life. These guys must be in great shape but even so they have to be hurting at the end of a match.

[@psykopanda11]

If anyone has seen more extreme jousting please tell me this is too tame and low energy and not violent enough for me.

[@Unit-ro6km]

Knights of Mayhem

[@mandymagee]

The Black Knight was having an 'off' day. He's normally fucking fantastic.

[@GnonplussedGnome]

Heavy as allowed. The impacts are real.

[@JimmyKastelic]

Great camera work.

[@GnonplussedGnome]

Canon SX30is

[@camargobispo]

Let's play Rival Knights!

[@dxlink]

"Out of my ear ring!" haha

[@marloyorkrodriguez9975]

And he comes from Gelderland!

[@kimdkus]

Not to worry, the knights make sure their horses are perfectly safe. They need them too much.

[@r_d5907]

What do they do with the broken lances? Do they dispose it after or repair or something?

[@kirotheavenger60]

Late reply, but in another video the announcer mentioned that genuine Lance shards were available as souvenirs in the gift shop.

[@dankasturihilvier3151]

♡

[@RedJohnO22]

Not the biggest fan of the Joust, but still this 1 in particular is somethin else. One question, are those lances as heavy as they come or are there even heavy lances used?

[@psykopanda11]

Seem much heavier in eastern europe and there they use sharp points from time to time also. We westerners should learn from the east as they have not yet forgotten how to be a man as the west have done.

[@HANNIBAL30ro]

this is awesome is this every year or sometimes special or?

[@GnonplussedGnome]

Andrei this is every year. There is full contact every weekend but fourth weekend and eighth weekend are Tourney's. I am a staff photographer @ Sherwood as well as TRF and Scarborough Faire's

[@Reyrocksall]

this was on Knights of Mayhem

[@jumpinthefire23]

SWORD!

[@tothjozsef7549]

this has nothing to do medieval jousting to because the whole medieval armor was just released meni thick and long spears they are only thin stalk

[@jamespredmore5578]

my exp knight joust so said pole hit it no broke 3 point ,broke 5 point and hit fall 10 point, broke-fall 15 point but if knight drop pole out o point make give other knight add one point that how much for score.....

[@samakechijowo]

Walkure Romanze brought me here...

[@Concerned_Robot]

what kind of wood are those lances made of?

[@GnonplussedGnome]

I keep wanting to say Hemlock but that's not it, it is a hardwood and in heavy armor the lances are not notched.

[@jasondraper4625]

red knight goin down..... down down down

[@alvideos2145]

Sure it seems fun but you risk hurting those poor horses! couldn't you do it on motorbikes or something?

[@gabewatson3680]

Horse kinda comes with the whole joust territory

[@Whoami691]

Was that a joke. The whole point of jousting is to do it on horseback. Besides, they know what they are doing.

[@chrish1657]

"Viva la France!" LOL

[@CatchingAir01]

The horses aren't the ones being hit though...

[@dinohoang]

The one who gets knocked Down first.

[@Thomas-es5qt]

The lance is a litle small

[@GnonplussedGnome]

Regulation diameter and length.

[@ForHisGlory86]

cable guy lol

[@rodserling2914]

Poor horses

[@psykopanda11]

This is what they were bred for! This is the reason why they no longer look like a tiny deer reaching up to our knees! Would you rather they stand around in some barn living a meaningless life being annoyed constantly by little girls who do not respect them like most other horses today live? Or perhaps you wish to slaughter them and turn them into sausage? Even that would be better than being tortured all life or having your body naturaly decay from inactivity! The truly poor horses are those castrated and left to rot in a stable! Not the glorious and testostronous!

[@thehorseman4346]

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