I'm sure that something like that could have happened, but is pretty hard to hide the fact that you are pointing your very lon sticks way too high in front of an hundred of people.
Jousting stick are long, you can't really change the direction at the last moment to be sneaky.
Elcondivido t1_iuhdhuf wrote
Reply to comment by TonyR600 in ELI5 How did knights participate in tournaments like jousting without killing themselves? by QuantumHamster
I'm sure that something like that could have happened, but is pretty hard to hide the fact that you are pointing your very lon sticks way too high in front of an hundred of people.
Jousting stick are long, you can't really change the direction at the last moment to be sneaky.