Who wants to take part in a jousting tournament?

[samia]

Hello.

In lieu of my previous unicycle for charity thread (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49169&highlight=charity) I wish to expand on the day.

Some people said that coming to Hertfordshire just for the mile wasn't enough motivation to travel all that way, which is understandable, so[/] I'm thinking of organising a [b]unicycling jousting tournament for after the Sport Relief Mile that will take up the rest of the afternoon.

Who's interested??

I will hopefully provide the (safe) lances, and armour if neccesary, but it would be cool for you to make your own with a coat of arms and stuff. (We're talking a double layer of cardboard from an old box or something).

Unfortunately there's no room for changing the date since I want it to fall on Sport Relief day the 15th of July.

[samia]

*Bumpy-bump*

oh.. and if anyone is interested but can't do the date we could always do it on a differnt day if there are enough people.

It's all just for fun!

[dan de man]

love to come but as you will hear from me many times more I cant reason IM in aus(tralia):(

[kington99]

And even when you're not in australia you're in america, which is also a pretty long way away. I'd be interested in joining in, I've jousted before at the crawley juggling festival a couple of times.

[Jerrick]

I wish I could come to this, but I cant because of location differences.

Can you get it on film too? I would like to watch people joust =p

[samia]

Cool Dave, I will keep you posted on whether or not I get more interest.

If it does happen (which it probably will since I will be there and at least two others!!!!) then can you also do the Sport Relief mile? It'll be on grass so a bit bumpy but not too rough. Let me know so's I can get you a sponsership pack :)

Dan de man - sorry to limit it to one country, and I swear if I had money to throw away, I would so fly everybody over to take part.

Jerrick - a video will be arranged

[BleedforTrials]

Jousting should be an event at the next UNICON, along with unicycle boxing.

[samia]

Come on people!
We can play other unicycle games too!

Woohoooooo!!

[samia]

bumping

[dan de man]

no offence but its kinda a little bad ettiquite on this forum to bump your theads (well from my experences)

[kington99]

True, but if youre advertising a charity fund raiser most people wouldn't mind the breach in etiquette just this once.

[samia]

Sorry for the bumping thing. I didn't realise it was bad.

But in my defence!:
I just want as many people as possible to see this because I'm sure more than one person in the same country would be interested! I know that some people have a life outside the forum (strange but true) and might miss the thread and a great opportunity to raise money for charity and have fun plus maybe try something new! How can you beat that?

Actually, maybe someone can answer this: a) Is it bad to post a similar post on rec.sport.unicycling at the same time? and b) should I have posted this sort of thread there in the first place??

If it's both yes, then I hope people don't mind if I put one on RSU and then promise I won't do it again.

[abbabibble]

well... holy crap! i just remembered that i'm going to france on the 13th of july!
there's a super slim chance that i'll be able to make it, but i'll probably still be groggy from jet lag...

[samia]

You mean you'd come from france to England just to take part? Wow.

Oh, and noticing your avatar, have you been here?
www.askaninja.com

[matt_t]

Count me in as long as my knees haven't disintegrated by then (highly likely I'm afraid.) If I'm injured can I joust from a car? I could tape the lance to the bonnet.

[samia]

If I'm injured can I joust from a car?

Methinks that would be a tad bit unfair....
But that's great! I truly hope your knees are well :)
If in the infortunate case they aren't, it would still be good to meet and talk about Comic Relief

[phil]

no offence but its kinda a little bad ettiquite on this forum to bump your theads (well from my experences)
It's frowned upon if the thread in question is rubbish or has finished anyway; this is an announcement that people need to see so there's nothing wrong with a bump or two.

I've never jousted before; it sounds like awesome fun, but unfortunately it's on the same day as the (also for charidee) Manchester to Blackpool ride... :(

This thread may get a better response in the main forum, as lots of people don't read this one; try PMing a mod like Gilby or Harper to move it where more people might see it...

Phil

[matt_t]

I'm sure I can show up injured or not... we'll all be in the same boat after a couple of rounds of jousting anyway!

[samia]

Okay I'm going to see if I can get this moved to RSU.
I'm assuming that everyone who has said they'll turn up will also do Sport Relief that day too? Great, awesome, cool :)

[samia]

Well it looks like the jousting is going ahead! I've got at least six of us to take part. I'll try and sort out a video too. So remember, 15th July, Welwyn Garden City. Put it in your diary people who are coming! I'll start PMing and/or e-mailing you news and updates, and I guess this thread will lay to rest at last.

Be seeing you!

Samia