THE HOME OF CAVALRY RE-ENACTMENT IN NEW ZEALAND

The weapons are real - the action is real. This is the worlds most spectacular full-contact sport - no holds barred.

From the disciplined and chivalric mounted skills to the full force, full contact joust, The Order of the Boar is New Zealands own medieval equestrian and jousting historical re-enactment group.

We specialise in recreating aspects of the medieval tournament along with related Living History activities from the second half of the 14th century (1350 - 1400 AD). The group is one of the pioneers in rediscovering the art of jousting and its development as a modern sport both in New Zealand and around the world.

We pay particular attention to horse welfare while also portraying our activities as historically accurate as possible.

All our training is done under the guidelines of the International Jousting Association that promotes horse welfare, jousting and international competition.

While we have a particular emphasis on the medieval period, we also portray the role of the horse in military history. So in addition to the medieval period, we also portray 16th Century Border Reivers and First World War New Zealand Mounted Rifles.

We portray our activities at public displays throughout New Zealand. Our members compete regularly in both jousting tournaments in New Zealand and in off-shore tournaments.

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Public Displays

Harcourt Park World Invitational Tournament 2011

A big part of what we do is to portray our activities to the general public. We organise the Harcourt Park Jousting Tournament every two years. This is a major international event attracting jousters from all around the world and an audience of over 10,000 people.

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We also provide displays as part of other major events. These have included:

Super 12 in Christchurch
Horse of the Year in Hastings
The Omaka Air Show in Blenheim

.. to name but a few. Details »

If you are organising a major event and would like to include equestrian drama and action, please email

Read a Harcourt Park Review at: http://www.khantazi.org/Events/Jousting09/Jousting_2009.html

Membership

The Order of the Boar is currently looking for a few new members in the Upper Hutt/Wellington area. We have places for:

Owner Rider. You provide your own horse and portray a rider in some capacity.
Non-Owner Rider. You don't have your own horse but can ride and want to portray a rider in some capacity (a limited number of spare horses are available) – 2 places available now – contact for further information.
Foot Crew. You portray a foot role in some capacity.
Sword Training Only. This is offered through Upper Hutt Martial Arts Academy. You may decide to also participate in our re-enactment or display activities

Join now to ensure that you can take part in Harcourt Park 2011 and our other events next Summer.

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News: January 2012

No Jousting Events in NZ this Summer.

Thank you to everybody who has contacted us to ask about jousting events in New Zealand this Summer. Unfortunately, for the frist time in many years there are none. The Taupo Joust which ran annually from 2006 to 2011 has been discontinued and our own Harcourt Park International Jousting Tournament is run every 2 years with the next one scheduled for early 2013.

In the meantime we are using the opportunity to work on further developing our own jousting and other cavalry skills so our next displays will be bigger and better than before!

Events Calendar

21st January 2012

Order of the Boar Foot Tournament - Dagger Workshop
We are introducing a Foot Combat Tournament format whereby competitors may elect to challenge each other with a variety of late 14th / early 15th century tournament weapon options. The first of these is dagger on dagger and this forms the basis of the system and the other weapon options. The workshop will be held from 12 PM to 4 PM on Saturday 21st January at the Upper Hutt Martial Arts Acacemy, Lyster Lane, Upper Hutt. Cost is $25 and places are limited.

15th - 16th February 2012

Mounted Skill-at-Arms/Mounted Archery Workshop.
This is being held at Longbush near Carterton.

March 2012

Modern Cavalry Skills & Joust Refresher Weekend.
This is being held at Kaitoke, Upper Hutt. Day 1 will focus on later 19th and early 20th century cavalry skills. Day 2 will focus on brushing up on our jousting skills.

Both the February and March workshops are for people with an appropriate level of riding and technical expertise in the activities being covered and also assume that riders will have their own suitably trained horses.

Contact callum@jousting.co.nz for further information on any of these workshops.