“Jousting is the only sport in the world where you don’t defend yourself,” he says, failing to make it sound any less forbidding. “It’s the armour that defends you.” Make no mistake, this is not ...

Raven Eastwood used to compete in rodeos in high school. But now when he rides a horse, he puts on 70 pounds of armor and gallops with a lance toward an opponent in the medieval sport called jousting.

Raven Eastwood, 23, from Round Rock, competes against the best in the world in the sport of jousting. He wears 70 pounds of armor and carries a 12 foot lance. Sara Diggins is a visual journalist at ...