A few things about jousting
1) It's awesome fun. There's something quite delightfully insane about charging at similarly minded individuals, with a telegraph pole, on horseback! Most of your mind that's going "Woohooooo! *grin*" and the the tiny part in is going "Crap, I can't believe we're doing this...". So, kind of like racing, then. :)
2) It's surprisingly knackering considering something else is doing all the running for you!
3) Expect extreme muscle pain the day after even if you're fit. This sport seems to exercise muscle groups left largely untouched by things like common gym exercises, sword fighting or fixing cars. In order to work up enough motivation to get out of bed this morning, I had to severly bribe myself with promises of an extremely greasy fry-up. Once you're up, it's fine, as long as you don't sit back down - for next time you want to get up, you will have to come up with a new way of persuading yourself it's worth the effort!
2) It's surprisingly knackering considering something else is doing all the running for you!
3) Expect extreme muscle pain the day after even if you're fit. This sport seems to exercise muscle groups left largely untouched by things like common gym exercises, sword fighting or fixing cars. In order to work up enough motivation to get out of bed this morning, I had to severly bribe myself with promises of an extremely greasy fry-up. Once you're up, it's fine, as long as you don't sit back down - for next time you want to get up, you will have to come up with a new way of persuading yourself it's worth the effort!