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Jousting was a sport, and a practice of the techniques used in warfare by the chivalric classes.

As a sporting event, it was normally performed in safer equipment (the heavier, less mobile jousting armours and helmets to protect the wearer, and blunted lances), but the techniques were the same. In such context it served to both demonstrate the competitor's prowess in the pageantry and ceremony associated with the chivalric ideals, and as a horseman and in warfare in the techniques of use of cavalry charge and lance which could be called upon on the battlefields.

It was, in effect, a highly stylised practice for war.

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