This will be Dominic’s sixth year of competing at the Royal Armouries. Manager of Churchfield Farm Livery Yard in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Dominic specialises in the training of horse for historical events across Britain and Europe. Dominic has developed and toured a medieval hunting display entitled ‘Master of the Game’. Dominic led his team ‘Destrier’ to take the Sword of Honour at the at the Royal Armouries Easter tournament 2006.

Rob is the founder member of Destrier and an expert in military tactics of the Wars of the Roses. He started riding with the 15th Hussars and is currently involved in a groundbreaking project to recreate the cavalry of World War I.

Stacy has been jousting for 6 years with Destrier and he was part of the team that won the Sword of Honour in 2006. He sees the joust as one of the first extreme sports and gets great enjoyment out of crossing lances with his friends and helping to bring this ancient sport back to life.

This is Andy’s 14th season of jousting, and he is the Royal Armouries’ most experienced man-at-arms. As an interpreter he regularly demonstrates armour fights and martial skills from the Roman gladiator to the duellists of the 18th century. Andy’s abilities and knowledge have been demonstrated in numerous historical documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4 including training Royal Marine Commandos and gladiators for Channel 5’s Warrior School.

This is Andrew’s second tournament season. He trained as a professional actor at LAMDA in London, and qualified as a fight director. He worked extensively in theatre and television for 8 years before joining the Royal Armouries in 2002. As part of the museum’s interpretation team Andrew performs acted interpretations and demonstrates fight displays from the 15th-century man-at-arms to the 18th-century duellist.

Scotsman Chris joined the Royal Armouries Interpretation department in May 2005. Chris has a passion for historical swordplay and European martial arts. He started riding five years ago, his goal being to joust and learn medieval horsemanship. Chris competed in the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Trophy tournament in 2005 and 2006.

Arne moved to Leeds from Delft in Holland to join the Royal Armouries Interpretation team. Previously he has jousted as part of the Burgundian team who took the Sword of Honour in the 2003 joust. In his spare time Arne practises and teaches medieval swordsmanship.

As a professional armourer (Englyshe Plate Armourie), William specialises in accurate reproductions of ‘harness’ dating between 1400 and 1500. Working to the highest standards of authenticity possible, William takes great pleasure and pride in the supply of fine armour to professional and amateur enthusiast within living history organisations. In his fifth season of jousting, William is a member of the amateur jousting group, Destrier, as well as jousting professionally for ‘The Royal Armouries’ and ‘Mark Atkinson’s Action Horses’.

Former Belgian mounted police officer, Fred now serves as an instructor for the Liege Academy. When in 2003, he entered his very first jousting competition in 2003, right here in the Royal Armouries tiltyard. Fred manages his own troupe, ‘The Hackamores’, founded the ‘Euro Jousting League’. Fred has carried the banner of Liege around the world and jousted in more than 10 countries, including Canada, Poland, Norway and New Zealand.

Toby joined the Royal Armouries in 1996 as a founding member of the new Interpretation Department and jousting team. In 1998 he left the Armouries to pursue graduate studies, and in 2000 returned as a member of the team ‘Freelance’, competing in the first of many major tournaments held in Leeds. In 2002 ‘Freelance’ won the Sword of Honour at the Easter Team Joust. In 2005 Toby founded the Order of the Crescent together with Steve Mallet and Jeff Hedgecock, and in that same year won the Scottish Sword of Chivalry, after a three-week competition held at several sites across Scotland. In 2006 Toby won the Queen’s Jubilee Horn at the annual individual championship, a title he is looking forward to defending later this year.

This is Jeffrey’s fifth year of jousting at the Royal Armouries, he has also competed in jousts in Scotland, Holland, New Zealand and America. Jeffrey regularly appears in TV programmes in the US and the UK, including Mail Call, Modern Marvels and The Worst Jobs in History. At home in California, Jeffrey is one of the world's top reproduction armourers with nearly 20 years experience, producing historically accurate arms and armour for clients world-wide. He now also trains his own jousting horses and teaches jousting at his ‘Knight School’.

You may recognise Steve from a number of television documentaries and historic drama programmes including Nick Knowles’ Histrionics, Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives and Mike Loades’ Weapons that shaped Britain. Steve has owned and trained Spanish horses for over ten years. Steve won the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Trophy in August 2005.