Watch options. Storyline Edit. Each week's episode features full-contact trials and preparations that will ultimately determine the champion-king of the joust. User reviews 2 Review. Top review. This is full on competitive jousting with proper medieval chivalric rules. Donning Tony Stark-esque Iron Man suits, the competitors spend the first part of the show going through training exercises and familiarising themselves with the intricate techniques required for accurate jousting.
This competition certainly pulls no punches and the 8 run competition at the end is exhilarating to watch, as their mighty horses thunder down the course and lances are lowered. Points are scored for a hit on the scoring plate located on the right shoulder, a broken lance and the satisfying unseating. It is truly authentic and great to watch. Info Jul 23, Details Edit. Release date February 12, United States. United States. Learn more about the horses and the horsemen behind the show Full Metal Jousting on the History Channel.
First, who would want to do that? How intriguing. Full Metal Jousting showcases a full-contact professional sport, resurrecting the knightly tournaments of the medieval era, not the relatively impact-free theatrical jousts of Renaissance festivals.
In each episode of the TV show, competitors charge at each other on horseback and collide at around 30 miles per hour. Medieval jousting tournaments were often held on a field close to a castle, called the 'lists'. A barrier, also called a planke or plank, separated the combatants on the list. Much of this medieval lingo carries over into the modern TV show and full-contact jousting tournaments.
Though they changed some rules for the TV show, they stayed true to many of the medieval customs you'd have seen if you were observing a tournament, perhaps from the battlements of the castle or beside the jousting tournament field. So out of curiosity, I tuned in with an open mind, and I was pleasantly surprised. He encouraged the competitors to build a relationship with their mounts because they were teammates. Wanting to know more about hot-headed Praetorian and the other colorful mounts on the show, I contacted Shane Adams.
He is a world champion competitor, vocal promoter of full-contact jousting, creator of the troupe Knights of Valour , and executive producer of Full Metal Jousting. We talked horses, and he explained how full-contact jousting is a challenging option for riders and a job that some horses love having. Karen Braschayko for Equitrekking: How do you protect horses in this process? What kind of safety for the horses do you build into training the competitors?
Shane Adams: Of course, in all horse-related disciplines, riding is dangerous for both horse and rider. You can take a horse out onto a rocky trail, and if there was a rain the night before, your horse could slide down and bruise his hocks or damage ligaments.
The best and most important safety element is to have professionals jousting. They need to have proper training, to show that they have control with their lances, and to show that their lances are not going to dive down and strike a horse. The rule said that at no time a horse should ever be struck by a lance, and if it happened, then that person would be stripped of land and title.
It would go to the owner of horse that you struck. Equitrekking: Is safety why you used the wall, or joust list, on the show? What other changes or rules did you develop for the reality TV competition?
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