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Originally Posted by andyt11
I thought it was something to do with being able to swing your sword at a potential ambusher.
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Yes. See post #5.
Left handed knights were banned from jousting matches and eventually phased out of service completely because they caused so many head-on collisions of horses when they would swerve to the right at the last moment so their opponent would be on their left.
The above, I just made up.