While this involves the modern Cavalry, from what I can tell from @ModernHistoryTV's videos on medieval cavalry, there are many aspects of modern equestrianism that haven't changed from medieval times, and are still being practiced. However, that's just my personal impression.
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Again, don't mistake me: experimental archaeology and modern practice have an important role to play in illuminating ancient or medieval practice. But it is not the paramount role: that role goes to the primary sources themselves.
Anyway, as far as experience goes, the last cavalry-on-cavalry engagement (the subject, I think, of discussion), the last was in 1920, during the Polish-Soviet War. There are, to my knowledge, no living veterans of that battle (given that if they were 18 then, they'd be 119 now)
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Cavalry on *infantry* engagements have happened far more recently (there's been at least one in the current Afghanistan war, for instance), though they been mostly battles of dragoons, not lancers and their tactics do not resemble those of shock cavalry.
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So again, the question being 'heavily armored shock cavalry meeting in an engagement' - I stand by my statement. No one alive has experienced that. In the end, the art of the historian is researching and gathering information on things no one living experienced.
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