Anyone interested in modern competitive jousting (there actually is such a thing) might want to take a look at the Webpage belonging to the World Competitive Jousting Association: http://www.wcja.ca/
As their URL may suggest, they operate out of canada. Between them and the California-based International Jousting Association (http://www.theija.com) they form what is effectively the Governing body of the sport. There's a growing movement to get jousting broadcast on ESPN!
While we're on the subject of Jousting.....
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David Adrian
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That would be pretty neat, watching jousting on ESPN. Even for those not interested entirely, "A Knight's Tale" was a big hit, so I could foresee a huge TV following if they aired anything.
As for fencing, being a fencer myself I'll tell you that there's a reason they don't (or very rarely do) show fencing on TV. IT'S WAY TOO FAST! If you blinked your eyes, the match would be over, start to finish. The only plausible viewing for a TV audience would maybe be sabre, since that's not as fast, but modern fencing is extremely fast paced and the discipline is geared towards efficient, quick and small moves, so you wouldn
As for fencing, being a fencer myself I'll tell you that there's a reason they don't (or very rarely do) show fencing on TV. IT'S WAY TOO FAST! If you blinked your eyes, the match would be over, start to finish. The only plausible viewing for a TV audience would maybe be sabre, since that's not as fast, but modern fencing is extremely fast paced and the discipline is geared towards efficient, quick and small moves, so you wouldn
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Just as a point of interest...I believe Maryland's state sport is still ring jousting. Unless those twits succeeded in getting it changed to duckpin bowling.
Inside every cynic there's an idealist desperately yearning to be let out, and when they are let out they're usually a real pain and cause all sorts of trouble. --Chris Boucher
Both of the SCA "kingdoms" of Atlantia (VA, NC, SC) and Meridies (GA, AL, MS, TN, LA, parts of KY, WV, FL) have "equestrian colleges" with horse games like ring tilting ("ring jousting"), horseback archery, "tent pegging" (hitting a small ground target with a spear while riding by), and quintaine jousting (a quintaine is a rotating target struck by a blunt lance that has a suspended counterweight on the opposite side of the arm from the target; a strike by the counterweight on your person as you make your pass voids the score. The score is determined by the number of rotations your strike causes to the quintaine).
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