Training for the Tournament: A Season Inside the List
Six months with a jousting team preparing for their first sanctioned tournament season.
Six months with a jousting team preparing for their first sanctioned tournament season.
The full report is being finished by our editors ahead of print. In the meantime, this dispatch previews what to expect: firsthand reporting from the grounds, interviews with the makers and competitors involved, and the kind of detail that only comes from spending real time inside the castle walls.
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The Woman Who Brought the Longbow Back
A former Olympic hopeful traded the recurve for a 100-lb warbow — and became the region's fiercest field archer.
Full Contact, Full Armor: Inside Modern Buhurt
It looks like Game of Thrones. It hits like rugby. Meet the fighters turning armored combat into a real sport league.
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