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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

HOLLY (WWJ) - Where's the one place you can go to see fairies, gypsies, pirates and knights? The Renaissance Festival in Holly, of course, where you never know what you'll find or who you'll meet. WWJ ...

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 ...