Full Metal Jousting Research Paper

Jousting was something done in medieval times and is often overlooked as two knights charging at each other. This practice is hundreds of years old and is still done today, but on a much smaller scale. Today it is a sport with few competitions around the world. This sport is no widely witnessed and because of this not many of us understand it value and violence. To begin with, the violence of this sport is of the charts. Not only is it violent during the competition but the training. In the show, Full Metal Jousting, the competitors train by getting hit with a battering ram and a metal baseball bat. The jousters stand at the end of the battering ram and six men slam a hundred pound battering ram into the jousters shoulder. These men go flying back. The next training method is using a metal bat and they ride down on a horse and a man swings his bat at him. These methods teach them the force of a hit and to resist falling off your horse. Now onto the real competition, the goal is to knock the other off his horse and this takes a lot of force. The horse itself weighs hundreds of pounds and including you and your armour and since mass times acceleration it is a lot of force, around 50,000 lbs. This creates a high chance of getting injured and as witnessed on Full Metal Jousting we saw cuts, bruises, and broken bones.
All sports require strength, stamina, and skill. Jousting requires all of that. You are carrying a lance that weighs around 20 lbs which requires strength. You are wearing armor made of metal that weighs an additional 40 lbs. Not only this but it hot insides and you will be exhausted. Finally you need to hit a small area when charging really fast which takes a great amount of skill. With all of this we can tell Jousting is just as demanding as other sports, however the only thing different is that there is no evasive move to get away from a