London International Dragon's Lair Jousting Tournament
Including 14th Century Armoured and Unarmoured DuelsJuly 11-13, 2003
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London International Dragon's Lair Jousting TournamentIncluding 14th Century Armoured and Unarmoured DuelsJuly 11-13, 2003 |
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From the 11th to the 13th of July 2003, an International Jousting Tournament was held at the John Labatt Centre in London, Ontario. The event included riders from Australia, Belgium, UK, USA and Canada. Also present at this event was the Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts (AEMMA) along with some members from the Ottawa Medieval Sword Guild (OMSG), an AEMMA Associate Group who presented a number of 14th century armoured and unarmoured duels on the Saturday and Sunday of the weekend's event.
To view the original web page from John Labatt's website promoting this event, click here.
For more information on the Academy's 14th century armoured judicial duels demonstrations and possibly hosting duels in your area, click here.
See below for images of the armoured and unarmoured duels, as well as some images of the mounted games. Click on any image for a larger view of the same. Hit your browser's "back" button to come back to this page to view more images. The images are extracts from digital video, and therefore, the resolution is somewhat low. Thanks goes to , our long time video and photo chronicler.
14th Century Armoured Duels |
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| Here are 4 images of Anton and David in a bout that begins with spears on the left pair, to longsword in the right pair. | |||
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| More images of Anton and David in a bout demonstrating some 1/2-sword techniques. Using local terrain to one's advantage during combat is clearly seen in the 3rd image whereby the bail of hay is used to David's advantage. | |||
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| These are images of Brian and Kelly starting the bout with spears fighting. The bout concludes with longsword exchanges followed by Brian's intimate examination of the substrate. | |||
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| Another round of bouts with David and Kelly, beginning with dagger, followed by spears and concluding with longsword. | |||
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| More images of David and Kelly going at it with longsword. Note in the 3rd image, David manages to disarm Kelly and in the 4th image, Kelly is about to examine the substrate as well. | |||
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| These are images of Kelly and David (Murphy) beginning their bout with longsword. The last image depicts David and Kelly concluding their bout with a dagger fight. | |||
Unarmoured Duels |
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| The duels presentations included a number of unarmoured longsword duels. Here, the images capture Matt and Luis. | |||
Mounted Games |
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| These images depict our very own Frank Williams engaged in the mounted games competition, beginning with taking a shot at the quintain followed by the spear throw. | |||
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| A couple more shots of Frank with the spear throw and a charge at the quintain. | |||