This is the world of jousting, rooted in the Middle Ages and now a growing sport across America. There are more than 80 clubs throughout the country, and several training schools.

Jousting started in 1066 during the Battle of […] ROBERTSDALE, Ala. (WKRG) — When people hear “jousting”, they likely think of the medieval times and a sport that took place long ago.

In Jousting Time players gallop down their lane, holding a knight’s lance, with the sole intent of violently impaling (or even decapitating) their opponent.

For medieval knights, jousting combined the public spectacle of NASCAR with the mano-a-mano combat of ultimate fighting. From the 12th to 16th centuries, mounted knights wielding lances fought one ...

While attending Colorado State University and playing polo, Kryssi Jeaux Miller learned how to lance and wield a sword on horseback from a friend-of-a-friend. Since that day 10 years ago, she’s become ...

But now when he rides a horse, he puts on 70 pounds of armor and gallops with a lance toward an opponent in the medieval sport called jousting. And he is competing among the best in the world.

In theatrical jousting, the passes are scripted and the lances are built to break rather than deliver much of a blow. In tournament jousting, however, every hit is the real deal and the winner is ...

While jousting was an "elitist" sport in medieval times, players today who take part in polo - a sport popular with princes and the aristocracy - make great knights.

A re-enactment of a medieval joust ended in the death of one of the actors taking part, an inquest heard today. A splinter sheared off a 7ft wooden lance, spearing 54-year-old Peter Allen’s eye ...

I braced myself for the inevitable hit from the rider galloping towards me. In jousting, as in most of the extreme sports I've tried, I felt a flood of exhilaration ...

Fiona Cormack, a jousting student, explains that jousting is when two knights on horses run and hit each other with lances but there is also a point structure. You get one point for a touch, 5 for ...

ROBERTSDALE, Ala. (WKRG) — When people hear “jousting”, they likely think of the medieval times and a sport that took place long ago. The Knights of Valor, a group of students and ...