Medieval History
Bathurst-based entrepreneur Rod Walker promotes what the History Channel calls ?the most dangerous collision sport in history?: jousting.
The former coal miner keen on horses graduated to jousting by way of foot combat. His jousting business, Full Tilt, ?kicked off? in 2003.
?Before that, jousting was just a hobby club,? says Walker, 41. ?In a club,? he says, ?everyone wants to do things their way - and if you?re trying to present a professional presentation, some people aren?t up for that and still want their say.?
In comparison, starting a business, being the boss and hiring people seemed easy, he says. The jousting shows he stages across Australia soon gathered steam.
Click here to read this article from the Sydney Morning Herald
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Crunch time: making money from a medieval extreme sport
The former coal miner keen on horses graduated to jousting by way of foot combat. His jousting business, Full Tilt, ?kicked off? in 2003.
?Before that, jousting was just a hobby club,? says Walker, 41. ?In a club,? he says, ?everyone wants to do things their way - and if you?re trying to present a professional presentation, some people aren?t up for that and still want their say.?
In comparison, starting a business, being the boss and hiring people seemed easy, he says. The jousting shows he stages across Australia soon gathered steam.
Click here to read this article from the Sydney Morning Herald
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Television shows will do almost anything to generate publicity, but it would not be correct to say that the people at the History channel locked me in this suffocating metal container until I agreed to write something about their new series. I actually...
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It is time for the butcher to polish up his battle-axe and the schoolmistress to stitch fresh silks on her noblewoman's gown as the hired horseman hones his lance and primes his mount for combat. Jousting season in Sulmona, and the people of this...
- Medieval Projects Earn Grants From Neh
Two medieval projects have been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). One project will develop an interactive jousting computer game for a museum, while the other will create a seminar for high school and college teachers...
- Is Jousting The Next Extreme Sport?
The gates of the Gulf Coast International Jousting Championships opened at 6 p.m. one Friday in January at a 4,500-seat arena 13 miles outside Pensacola, Florida. Some of the spectators were dressed in leather doublets and velvet gowns; some wore jeans...
- Making The Past In The Present
Recently published: Medievalisms: Making the Past in the Present, by Tison Pugh and Angela Jane Weisl (Routledge, 2012). Publisher's description: From King Arthur and Robin Hood, through to video games and jousting-themed restaurants, medieval...