It is, but it’s only targeting rings. Not men.
Used to be pretty well known. Check out Warren Beatty’s first movie. It’s a hoot.
But while I appreciate it, as all horse things, I honestly think duckpin bowling should be the state sport. Even if likewise, we have few remaining lanes anymore.
While it may be called "jousting", it is actually "tilting", this targeting of rings with a lance from a running horse. It was used, back in the day, as a form of practice for the actual "jousting" which by definition, was against an equally armed, and more importantly, equally mobile, target...
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