"A lot of [people] want to escape the everyday mundane grind," says Roy William Cox, a former Marine who jousts as Sir William Westmoreland. "You know, sitting in a cubicle, listening to the boss, wanting to take that boss out and hit him with a 10-foot pole — my guys get to do that."
Lyden interviewed several jousters at the festival, including Richard Alvarez, now retired as a jouster, who has directed a new documentary entitled American Jouster.
