Sport: Fighting: Jousting
Surf Jousting   (+13, -1)  [vote for, against]
On the second pass, I unseated the knave and dumped him unceremoneously into the drink

Modern windsurfing combines speed, agility and grace. But after a while, one can get tired of battling the elements alone.

Introducing Surf Jousting. Combatants use the latest in windsurfing equipment, but wear a specialized harness with a "bullseye" hoop that protrudes from the back.

Then, racing towards each other on a quarter mile course, they must catch the hoop with their light titanium lance and let their momentum throw the opponent off his surfboard while staying on their own.
-- theircompetitor, Apr 12 2004

Horse water polo http://www.popsci.c...nge-sports-tomorrow
[theircompetitor, Jun 26 2011]

Horse Skiing, who knew https://www.youtube...watch?v=zolWG7Jg54E
[theircompetitor, Feb 25 2015]

Hmmm. +
-- sartep, Apr 12 2004


Until I read this was windsurfing, I was stumped by the implication everyone would be travelling in the same direction. Unless you kind of poked the guy next to you until he fell off.
-- dooper, Apr 12 2004


I'm liking this one...
-- zigness, Apr 13 2004


[dooper] "serf" was an essential part of the name, windserf just wasn't cutting it
-- theircompetitor, Apr 13 2004


Snerf?
Sounds like fun. Sign me up.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Apr 13 2004


Actually, you don’t need a lance. Just tip your mast forward and spear the guy with it. (Well, that’s going to be harder than it sounds, but still easier than carrying a lance.)
-- ldischler, Apr 13 2004


You're going to kill someone. (+)
-- Madcat, Apr 13 2004


It's only funny until somebody loses an eye!
-- zigness, Apr 13 2004


And then its hilarious!

<waiting expectantly for 'smurf jousting'>
-- RayfordSteele, Apr 13 2004


With the its 200th anniversary coming up in 2005, I propose a pitched battle at sea consisting of hundreds of windsnerf jousters actually at Trafalgar - Britain vs France. Both sides would be colour coded, if you're jousted into the water or fall off, your out of the battle...adjudicators from a launch boat using binoculars determine the last windsnerfer left standing - whose side wins. Claims of shabby authenticity from naval historians will be fought off using forged archeological evidence.
-- dooper, Apr 13 2004


Bun. And I like the "mast-spearing" idea. It *could* be done with standard wave surfing, as they might all be going, say, south, but could then make a lot of changes east and west.
-- Xenophile, Jun 07 2006


Smart. Purely for the invention of new a dialect somewhere between Mediaeval and whooooooooaaa-doooooode

Have thyself a bun !
-- monojohnny, Jun 07 2006


An electronically tipped rubber/foam lance might be the go for full body and head action. Hard enough for a bruising encounter, soft enough to not cause any lasting damage.The tip being big enough to not get past the helmet to an eye. Points could be shown by the a beacon on harness.
-- wjt, Feb 28 2015


No ... rigid lance, carbon-fibre buoyant plate armour.

// Claims of shabby authenticity from naval historians will be fought off using forged archeological evidence. //

There's your O.B.E., right there.
-- 8th of 7, Mar 01 2015



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