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'Women ask me to put the armour on'

What happens in knight club, stays in knight club.
The age of chivalry might be dead, but England still needs its knights, and one of the youngest is Tom Kilroy from Sussex.
Tom works with horses and started jousting in his early teens as part of his brother's crew.
The team choreograph their own shows and specialise in "heavy hitting, breaking lances and full on sword fighting."
As 'Sir Thomas of Loxwood' he's the star of the jousting performance at the annual Loxwood Joust.
But as well as recreating history Tom says his team can't resist taking inspiration form modern entertainment like the Star Wars films.
Tom's story is part of New Dogs. Old Tricks: a series of films by video journalist Ben Moore, who has been meeting the young people shaking up the UK's most traditional industries.

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