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Author Topic: Armor doing what it does best - keeping people alive - but WOW!  (Read 12882 times)

Sir James A

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Words cannot even describe the reaction I had when I saw this:



THAT is what jousting with a solid lance does.

I no longer want to do anything but joust with pool noodles, or maybe balsa lances like A Knights Tale.

Egads.
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I still want to do it at least once...
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Yow! I guess that's what happens when both guys hit their mark.
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hehehe its Rod! he has some awesome kits! a FB friend ;)

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Been a lifelong dream it has...and thinking back to some of the crazy things I've done in the past, this won't raise too many eyebrows- at least, not amongst the members of my family.  Hell, they almost expect to hear it already.  lol
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Been a lifelong dream it has...and thinking back to some of the crazy things I've done in the past, this won't raise too many eyebrows- at least, not amongst the members of my family.  Hell, they almost expect to hear it already.  lol

Here lies Sir William.
He was warned that he should not go,
but didn't survive that final blow.

:)
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hahahahahaha

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I don't want to spoil the video by posting the comments, but look at the Youtube comments for Roderic's reply to "jesus what happened after?" ... eek!
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Walk it off! ;)
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I don't know if you saw the replies from the high end jousters in the archive or not but they said this is really a rare occurrence among good riders:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=133534

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Been a lifelong dream it has...and thinking back to some of the crazy things I've done in the past, this won't raise too many eyebrows- at least, not amongst the members of my family.  Hell, they almost expect to hear it already.  lol

Here lies Sir William.
He was warned that he should not go,
but didn't survive that final blow.

:)

If I decide to use that as my epitaph, I'll be sure they credit you!
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Those weren't completely solid. Those were the 1 ft balsa tipped ones.

Now they use 3 ft and saw them a little.
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