Proving there really is a sport out there for everyone, Australian school teacher Sarah Hay is the best woman — and one of the best humans — in the world at… jousting. Seriously. In the full armour and everything.
Regular readers of Kotaku will know this stuff isn’t new or rare; people all over the world love nothing more than dressing up in metal plate and beating the crap out of each other.
But wearing armour and whacking a dude with a sword is easy. The fact there’s a jousting scene, which takes an insane amount of preparation and skill (not to mention access to badass horses), is super impressive.
Sarah’s only been competing for a few years, but has already won a couple of major global championships. She also alternates between jousting and horse archery. You can see her in action below.
Sarah Hay [The Jousting Life, via Fashionably Geek]
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6 responses to “Sarah Is An Australian World Beater At Jousting”
Isn’t that extremely dangerous? Large rubber dildos would be much safer!!
Large rubber dildos wouldn’t shatter, which is part of the scoring of a joust.
That would be more dangerous because if the joust doesn’t shatter then the opponent gets caught on it and gets dragged down and trampled.
The point of a hollow wooden joust is so it shatters and doesn’t impale the rider 🙂 Rubber lances would pose a threat to both riders in fact.
I can just imagine a scene where one rider strikes the other, the lance bends, then springs upwards, catapulting the other rider into the sky with a “Wahahahahahoooieee” and a twinkle at the end.
Props to her, but the footage is a bit tame. The horses were barely cantering. I went to the medieval fair at Caboolture a few years back and the jousting was insane. Those horses were going full tilt and the only thing separating them from the onlookers was a piece of bunting mounted on poles.
Never really seen a horse gallop in real life so I I’m just guessing, but could it be because the horse in running on sand in this case? I do know that horses take a while longer to get any real speed on sand….