Tournament of the Phoenix 2009

[Gwen]

WorldJoust Tournaments™ is pleased to announce our 4th tournament-

The Tournament of the Phoenix 2009


2008 Tournament champions

The Order of the Star
(L-R) Graham Nixon(NZ), Petter Ellingsen(Norway), Luke Binks(AU), Captain

will hold the field against challengers

Three time Royal Armouries Sword of Honour Champions

The Order of the Crescent
(L-R) Dominic Sewell(England), Tobias Capwell(US/England),  Jeffrey Hedgecock(USA), Captain

The world's best teams compete for glory in jousting's most prestigious event!!

This event is sanctioned by the Royal Armouries of England.

New for 2009- A Festival of History- Rome to the Renaissance[/b] Featuring the West's best living history groups!


For complete details or to purchase tickets, please visit:

WWW.WORLDJOUST.COM

[Historic Arms and Armour]

Hey all,

I wanted to -bump- this topic, since we're less than 2 months out. The event preparations are moving swiftly forward and the other competitors and I are chomping at the bit (figuratively, except for the horses) to get out there and smash it up.

This is going to be the competition of the year, with my team, The Order of the Crescent, 3 time winners of the Sword of Honour Team Tournament at the Royal Armouries Museum Leeds UK, facing last year's victors the Order of the Star, captained by Luke Binks of Australia.

The event is a true international Knightly competition, comprised of Foot Combat with PollAxes, Club Tourney (mounted melee) and 4 sessions of JOUSTING!

Toby Capwell, arms and armour curator of the Wallace Collection London, will be here competing on my team and will also give a presentation on heroic armour of the 15th century. A once in a lifetime chance!!

See you there!!!!!

http://www.worldjoust.com

[Gwen]

Traditional/Longbow Archery Contests at the Tournament of the Phoenix

[Gwen]

Luke's put together a short video of some of the Foot Combat from last year's Tournament of the Phoenix.  We're gearing up for this year's event, which happens in just over 2 weeks!

Enjoy!

Gwen

Edited to use YouTube video rather than Facebook

[Gwen]

Some photos from the event-

The Order of the Crescent enters the tiltyard-


Team Captain Jeffrey Hedgecock with his new crest-


Toby wearing his game face while being armed up-


Big hit between Graham Nixon (blue) and Toby Capwell-


Toby and Luke in the foot combat:


Jeff looking uber cool and deadly as he waits his turn in the foot combat-


And a video piece on the event from Show Jumping unplugged
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6mxPITt94E

I hope you enjoy the images as much as we enjoyed the event!!!

Gwen