Bicycle Polo - U.S. Bicycle Polo Association, Inc. Ride into the fastest growing sport on the edges of the mountain biking world bike polo! Check out rules, strategies, history, photos, video, http://www.bikepolo.com/
American Bicycle Polo Association Of America Polo is thought to be the oldest team sport known to man, dating from the days when Persian warriors first rode horses into battle. bicycle polo evolved a http://www.bicyclepolo.org/
Extractions: Rules Equipment Players Tournaments ... Unionville Takes 2007 Wendland Memorial Unionville, winners of the 2007 Jan E. Wendland Memorial: Eric Zandotti, Kevin Thompson, Crosby Wood, Norris Wright, Jr., and Robert Scott Polo is thought to be the oldest team sport known to man, dating from the days when Persian warriors first rode horses into battle. Bicycle polo evolved a bit later, having had to wait for some clever chap to invent the modern bicycle. Polo has long been known as "the king of games," but the money and skills required have greatly limited its popularity. Bicycle polo has a much broader appeal, since almost anyone can ride a bike, not to mention afford one. Anyone, male or female, aged nine to ninety, can play bicycle polo! A Unique Combination: Cycling, Racket Sport, and Team Sport
Boxwood Bicycle Polo Company The Boxwood bicycle polo Company has everything for the bike polo player, some of which is available only from us. In particular, we have our unique bike http://www.boxwoodbicyclepolo.com/
World Bicycle Polo Welcome to the Official Website of the International bicycle polo Federation ( Formed in 1996 ). These pages contain extensive information on the Rules of http://www.worldbicyclepolo.com/
Extractions: Introduction Member Countries Committees Results of World Championships ... Membership Form Welcome to the Official Website of the International Bicycle Polo Federation ( Formed in 1996 ). These pages contain extensive information on the Rules of the Sport, List of Member Countries, Details of the Executive and Technical Committees, Results of Past Championships and other updated information and news on this sport.
American Bicycle Polo Association - Homepage Based in Washington State, and member of the International Cycle Polo Association, we use the International rules, based on equestrian polo with three taps http://hometown.aol.com/fourchukker/
Cycle Polo - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Cycle Polo or Bike Polo or bicycle polo is an outdoor game similar to Polo, except that bicycles are used instead of horses. The sport originated in Ireland http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_Polo
Extractions: (Redirected from Cycle Polo Jump to: navigation search Cycle Polo or Bike Polo or Bicycle polo is an outdoor game similar to Polo , except that bicycles are used instead of horses. The sport originated in Ireland and was formally invented by Richard J. Mecredy in 1891. The game is currently played mainly in USA France India Ireland and Canada Cycle polo is played in a rectangular field 150 meters by 100 meters. Nevertheless, these dimensions can vary between 120 and 150 meters in length on 80 to 100 meters in width. The French rules however allow for smaller grounds usually 100 by 80 meters. The ball used is of circumference 12-15 inches and the mallet is of length 1 meter. There are 6 members (7 in France) in a team of which 4 (5 in France) are on field at a time. The other two are used as substitutes. International matches are played for a duration of 30 minutes divided into periods of 7.5 minutes each called as a chukkar . Extra time can be used to determine the winner in case the scores are tied at normal time. The goal posts are usually widened for extra time. If a deliberate foul is permitted at the vicinity of the goal, the team that is fouled is automatically given a goal. There are no penalty strokes. Less severe fouls are awarded 15 metre and 25 metre free hits. In the event of deliberate fouls or dangerous fouls, the umpire can issue the Yellow card (warning) and in case of repeated or severe fouls the Red card (ejection). The ejected player can be replaced by a substitute after the end of the current
Scbp Recreational group of bicycle polo players from Minnesota. http://www.nateswenson.com/scbp.html
Extractions: Welcome to the St. Cloud Bike Polo page. We play a modified version of bike polo as a way to relax on Sunday evenings before the work week. You can find us at Madison Elementary School in St. Cloud almost every Sunday. (Well, when we aren't running marathons, competing in Mountain Bike events, Skiing, or whatever else we do to keep in shape! Rules We don't follow too many of the "Official Rules" because it makes the game slow and boring. We really only have three.
Extractions: @import url(http://graphics.nytimes.com/css/common/screen/article.css); var google_hints = "Bicycles+and+Bicycling,Athletics+and+Sports,New+York+State,Manhattan+(NYC)"; var google_ad_channel = "ar_sports"; Skip to article document.write(''); Andrew Gombert for The New York Times A bike polo game last month in New York. The East Side Polo Invite tournament will be held this week in Lower Manhattan. By KATE TORGOVNICK Published: April 27, 2007 You do not have to be a king to play polo. You do not need a 300-yard grass field, a long-handled mallet or a helmet. In fact, you do not even need a horse. Skip to next paragraph Video Feature On asphalt courts and parking lots in cities throughout the country, bike messengers, bike-shop employees and assorted cycling enthusiasts are playing bicycle polo. The game dates to the 1800s, but it is being transformed from its prim beginnings to a rough-and-tumble sport as it mixes with bike-messenger culture. Urban players ride fixed-gear bikes, the kind messengers often use to zip through traffic and dodge pedestrians. They set up orange cones in lieu of goal posts and knock around street-hockey balls. Because wooden mallets often break when hit against concrete, players make their own mallets, attaching a handle from an old ski pole or golf club to a piece of industrial-strength piping.
Irish Bicycle Polo Ireland bicycle polo Irish. Welcome to the bicycle polo Association of Ireland. Ireland s most exciting sport on Two Wheels http://www.irishbicyclepolo.com/
Bike-O Polo (washingtonpost.com) According to the official rules of the International bicycle polo Federation, a game is played with a maximum of four players per side and lasts for 30 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53124-2005Apr14.html
Extractions: var SA_Message="SACategory=" + thisNode; Hello Change Preferences Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Pets SEARCH: washingtonpost.com Web Search Archives washingtonpost.com Print Edition Weekly Sections ... E-Mail This Article Top News Weekend What is RSS? All RSS Feeds By Caroline Kettlewell Friday, April 15, 2005; Page WE31 From a distance, you might think you're watching some kind of two-wheeled synchronized drill team with a serious synchronization problem. On a scrubby elementary school playing field, eight bicycles dodge and weave among one another, stop short, wheel abruptly and charge off at full tilt, first one way then another. Occasionally a rider stalls and stumbles sideways in an awkward one-footed hop. Amid the fray, a massive, mangling pileup of bicycles and bodies seems at any moment inevitable. Yet somehow, repeatedly, that outcome is only just avoided. Draw closer, and you notice that all the riders wield long-handled wooden mallets swung and whirled deftly within the knot of bicycles. A mallet sweeps in a swift downward arc; a softball-size ball shoots across the field, and the riders tear off in wheel-churning pursuit.
Helmets For Bike Polo bicycle polo was reportedly invented in 1891 by Richard J. Mecredy, an Irishman. The sport is also known as bike polo, cycle polo, and even bicycle hockey. http://www.helmets.org/bikepolo.htm
Extractions: Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute Bicycle polo was reportedly invented in 1891 by Richard J. Mecredy, an Irishman. The sport is also known as bike polo, cycle polo, and even bicycle hockey. Since bicycle polo is characterized by quite a few spills as the riders race after the ball, a helmet for the sport should be multi-impact. The typical single-crash bike helmet made with crushable EPS foam must be replaced after every hard hit, so it would not last long in a cycle polo environment. You can use a bike helmet and it will protect you, but you may have to discard it after one or a few games. When helmets sell for $7.14 at Wal-Mart or Target that may not bother you at all. If you go that way, be sure to look at our page on when to replace your helmet When cycle polo is played on grass, the surface is considerably more resilient than pavement. Pavement does not giveeven the slightest fraction of an inchand the energy spike to the brain generated by an impact is very very intense. On a graph it looks like a spike. On grass the spike becomes more of a bell curve, with a much less intense peak. For that reason cycle polo might be played in a skateboard helmet. But riding to and from the field, usually in the same helmet, the rider is on pavement. And some bicycle polo is played on hard surfaces, a type known as bicycle hockey in the bike messenger subculture. It is rougher than normal bicycle polo. So a skateboard helmet would not have the energy management capabilities needed.
Bicycle Polo's Links The first French web site on bicycle polo. bicycle polo Association of Great Britain (B.P.A.G.B.) United Kingdom http://www.polo-velo.net/english/contacts/links.htm
Extractions: Bicycle polo links version française Sites are from: Australia Canada United States of America France ... international sites France Fédération Française de Cyclisme (F.F.C.) - France http://www.ffc.fr Association Sportive et Culturelle de Pessac Alouette (A.S.C.P.A.) - France http://ascpa.free.fr/pages/Sections/Sections_sportives/Polo_velo.htm Claude Beja - France http://polovelo.oldiblog.com Comité d'Aquitaine de la F.F.C. - France http://www.aquitaine-velo.com Comité d'Île-de-France de la F.F.C. - France http://www.cif-ffc.org - France http://esgl.polo-velo.net Their blog : http://esgl.over-blog.fr Laurent Pupunat - France http://pupunat.multimania.com/PoloCV.html Vélo-Club de Frileuse et de Sanvic (V.C.F.S.) - France http://vcfs.free.fr Australia Bicycle Tasmania - Australia http://www.biketas.org.au/general.php Camberra Bicycle Museum - Australia http://canberrabicyclemuseum.com.au Melbourne Bike Polo Club (M.B.P.C.) - Australia http://bikepolo.larrymite.com.au Canada Canadian Coalition of Cycle Polo (C.C.C.P.) - Canada http://persweb.direct.ca/tsetse
Bicycle Polo Sessions In The South East Riders were fortunate to have the expertise of Peter Wall in attendance, who was the General Secretary of the bicycle polo Association of Great Britain and http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/web/site/BC/clu/News2006/20061128_bicyclepolo.a
Extractions: Go-Ride Polo! On 28 th October, eleven participants from Victory CC, VC Jubilee and Sutton CC wielded their mallets for a day of fun at Herne Hill Stadium, learning the sport of Bicycle Polo. It was a great chance to do something different now that most of the cycling disciplines are resting for the winter. Riders were fortunate to have the expertise of Peter Wall in attendance, who was the General Secretary of the Bicycle Polo Association of Great Britain and has been involved with the sport for around 53 years! Skills such as dribbling, passing and trapping the ball were learnt and the skills were put to the test with some very entertaining games! Peter reminisces over a sport that was once included in the Olympics but is now almost forgotten in the world of cycling. With many versions of polo played throughout the world today, it is hard to believe the fact that bicycle polo was first played at the Scalp in Ireland in 1891 by cyclists wanting to keep fit through the winter. Four years later it had spread like an epidemic to England as the upper classes took it up. It was never meant to be a rough game, but the newspapers of the day commented that such was the competitiveness between players that most ended up on their opponents bike. Ten years later the adoption of rudimentary rules meant the game was to become more skilful and cycling clubs in England became involved. The first landmark was in 1901 when Ireland beat England 10 5 at Crystal Palace. In 1908 Ireland beat Germany 3 1 in an Olympic Games match at Shepherds Bush.
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There Will Be Bike Polo! « Hot Splice What is bicycle polo? Well obviously its kinda like horse polo except you dont have to own a horse. The rules differ from city to city, http://nwfilmforum.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/there-will-be-bike-polo/
Extractions: a blog about cinema Two new articles worth a read This just in from Seattle Bike Polo representatives: Absolute confirmation Seattle Bike-In at Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill. From the Seattle Bike Polo website: YouTube clip This entry was posted on August 27, 2007 at 5:47 pm and is filed under Uncategorized . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website Blog at WordPress.com
Extractions: Bicycle polo is very similar to pony polo without the horse and a few rule changes. Each player must respect the other's "right of way." This means that to engage the ball one must have positioned his or her bicycle parallel to the sidelines for at least three bike lengths. This maintains a high level of safety for the players and keeps the game moving at a brisk pace. If a rider foot dabs they must exit the field first before engaging the ball. I began playing this game with a few friends from a bicycle shop in Tucson. A group of us would get together and play at the city parks or schools. The USBPA official field size is 100 x 60 yards but any grass area any will suffice. Each game consists of four chukkars with a ten-minute halftime break. Recommended team size is four. Last year I managed to borrow a set of mallets from a friend who suggested that I try this game at one of my next "Police Cyclist" classes. On day three of the class I broke out the mallets and a wiffle ball and told the class that we were going to play bike polo and discussed some of the rules (which at the time were few) because we didn't even know their were
Modern Roost: Bicycle Polo Dallas I ve seen the topic of bicycle polo in several blogs this week. Apparently it s the edgey urban At the US bicycle polo Assoc. We don t horse around! http://modern-roost.blogspot.com/2007/10/bicycle-polo-dallas.html
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