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Shane Adams
Shane Adams is considered the world’s best full-contact jouster, coach and trainer, and now he is bringing back history’s original extreme sport and transforming it into a 21st century event.
Adams was raised on a farm in Ontario, Canada around horses and dreamed of being a modern day knight. He got his start in theatrical jousting, but wanted something more intense. Adams was a prime force behind the movement to bring back full-contact jousting, a sport with real hits and real danger. In 1997 during his first international jousting tournament, riding a borrowed horse, he soon defeated the reigning world jousting champion and became the biggest name in an emerging sport.
Shane is the former president of the World Championship Jousting Association. He holds 17 international jousting titles and co-founded numerous competitive spectacles around North America. FULL METAL JOUSTING is the realization of a dream to take the sport mainstream by hosting a competition among some of the toughest riders in America, and training them to joust for real.
Rod Walker
Rod Walker
Black Team Head Coach
Hometown: Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
Hometown: Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
A driving force in jousting since the early 1990’s, Rod was a founding member of the International Jousting Association and has since competed all over the world. Rod is also the only jouster in the world that has competed in all of the jousting styles being practiced today, and is one of the few top, modern jousters who has jousted in a full authentic style, using real lances with steel coronels.
Jeremy Oneail
Jeremy Oneail
Black Team Assistant Coach
Hometown: Seabook, New Hampshire
Hometown: Seabook, New Hampshire
Jeremy made his start in medieval combat with armored combat and has won over a dozen tournaments in six different countries. Since learning how to joust, Jeremy has competed and placed in more overseas jousting competitions that any other American jouster, spanning nine countries. He has also spent time as the President of the U.S. chapter of the International Jousting Association. Currently, Jeremy is a freelance artist and the founder and head instructor of The Academy of Knightly Arts, a medieval combatives school.
Phillip Leitch
Phillip Leitch
Black Team Assistant Coach
Hometown: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Hometown: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Phillip is an ex-Australian Special Forces Soldier with experience in martial arts and historical sword fighting. Under the tutelage of Rod Walker, Phillip participated in his first International Joust at the prestigious “St. George’s Day Joust” in New South Wales, Australia in 2010.
Ripper Moore
Ripper Moore
Red Team Head Coach
Hometown: Dexter, Oregon
Ripper was introduced to real, full-contact jousting in 1996. He toured around the Eastern U.S. and Canada for the next 15 years, performing and competing, winning his first tournament in 2000. Since then, Ripper has competed in as many as four major tournaments a year, winning five Regional, four International and two World Championships.
TJ Duquette
TJ Duquette
Red Team Assistant Coach
Hometown: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
TJ began training in swordplay and dressage riding several years ago. Under Shane Adam’s coaching and Ripper’s mentorship, he has become a prominent member of Shane’s crew and has the skill of a champion jouster.
Robbie Hubbard
Robbie Hubbard
Red Team Assistant Coach
Hometown: Monroe, Ohio
Robbie has been riding and handling horses his entire life. While training others to ride, Robbie explored his passion for bull riding and in the process became a champion bull rider. Under the tutelage of Shane Adams over the past year, Robbie has become an elite jouster.