HAMMOND, La. (WGNO)—Jousting is a decades-long tradition at the Louisiana Renaissance Festival. Crowds love watching this medieval sport that puts knights up against each other in combat.

Customers are served a four-course meal and treated to sword fights and jousting tournaments. Depending on your seating, you cheer for one of six knights, many of whom have been training for a year.

The two-day jousting event in Victoria state, Australia, ended 89-75. Jousting is typically associated with knights in the Middle Ages, but historical jousting has been gaining popularity in ...

Times of Jousting. You take part in a grand tournament competing with other knights, for fame, glory, wealth and to win the king's niece's heart. “To risk life to save a smile on a face of a ...

Fatima: That armour looks heavy. Sally: This is called jousting. Two knights use a wooden pole, called a lance, to try to knock the other off their horse. It was originally used to practise for ...

This 1820 artwork shows 12th Century armoured knights jousting at a tournament. The knight on the far side has a shattered lance and is being unhorsed Archaeological analysis of a medieval animal ...

In any one show, the knights will ride around the arena in a parade formation, joust on a horse, fall off a horse, race on a horse and sword fight on a horse. It's every little boy's dream and ...

With his newly-minted history in hand, the young man sets out to prove himself a worthy knight at the country's jousting competition, and finds romance along the way.