James Zoppe, short and stocky with shoulder-length silver hair, is known as Sir James of Lockwood, the Red Knight. He says his adrenaline is pumping most when he looks through the narrow slit in his ...

Tournaments originated around the time of the First Crusade as a way for the newly emerged class of knights to practice their skills in mounted combat. Today, jousting has become a familiar feature of ...

POWAY POWAY — The first time Jeffrey Hedgecock saw a suit of armor as a child, he didn’t think of the man inside, but saw only the sculpted shell of a human body. “I’m fascinated by the image of the ...

Long ago, before David Beckham donned a pair of body-hugging boxers to hawk his line of underwear for H&M, the star athletes of the day were knights -- specifically, guys who charged at each other on ...

Raven Eastwood used to compete in rodeos in high school. 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.

COSTA MESA >> Kyran Fairchild, clad head to toe in armor, is sitting on his horse when an assistant hands him an 11-foot piece of solid Douglas fir. He directs his horse to turn and, seconds later, ...

Kalleigh Wagner had just watched a horse throw an armored knight during a joust when Captain Hook walked up to her. Hook told the 10-year-old girl he was looking for Peter Pan. “We have some ...

In medieval times the curious practice began of organising teams of people to kick a pig’s bladder about. They called it football, but it didn’t really catch on for centuries – because jousting was so ...

The gates of the Gulf Coast International Jousting Championships opened at 6 p.m. one Friday in January at a 4,500-seat arena 13 miles outside Pensacola, Fla. Some of the spectators were dressed in ...