Lance Games

Competitors will demonstrate their historic joust training skills to the assembled judges:

Demonstrate your precision picking up a ring:

• As a joust training exercise, the ring stand will be placed over a tilt barrier, so all riders will need to carry their lance in their right hand to retreive the a ring on their left side.
• After retrieving a ring, riders should place it in the bucket provided, and proceed to their next pass.

Show your precision and follow-through striking the quintain

• The quintain will be placed over a tilt barrier, so riders will need to carry their lance in their right hand.
• The quintain has a horseshoe in the center of the target, impress the judges by striking directly withing the horseshoe.

Show your technique again by breaking a frangible tip lance against a breaking quintain

• The quitain will again be placed over a tilt barrier
• Both foam and wood lances will be available

Demonstrate your partnership with your horse on the tilt when faced with an oncoming opponent (without lances)

• As with all the above games, your horsemanship goals should include: a quiet start, a steady pace down the tilt, a controlled halt at the end
• This will have the added complexity of another horse in the oncoming lane, so that you can demonstrate your partnership with your horse in a simulated jousting situation.
• This pass will not include lances, but feel free to ride with the reins in one hand and mime the levee with the other.