THE SPORT OF JOUSTING.

THE SPORT OF JOUSTING. This article in the New York Times Magazine reports on the modern sport of jousting. There are estimated to be 200 competitive jousters in the world. They are intent on making it what the article calls “The Next Extreme Sport.” The jousters are divided into two camps: “full contact” jousters (the American style) and those who require “historically accurate 15th-century armor, clothing and accessories, including arming doublets and hose” (European style). The European-style jousts feature lances is fitted with three-foot balsa-wood tips that shatter in competition. There is a sharp divide between the two camps. As one jouster puts it, “There’s a warrior class and an artistic-historic class.”