Poland’s bike-riding mail courriers have adopted a very old-fashioned type of sport to persue in their free time: polo. But this urban version of the game is played on bicycles, rather than on horseback, and involves the use of old ski sticks for mallets.Duration: 01:41
Take a ski stick attach plastic piping to the end put some protection pads over your joints climb on your customized bike and you’re ready to play urban polo the idea is to score goals following rules similar to the traditional polo played on horseback garages the ball is
Put in the center of the field and players from each team position themselves behind their own goal then someone shouts three two one polo and one player from each team runs to the ball you can make passes with any part of the stick however we can’t use the
Rounded ends allowing your foot to touch the ground is strictly forbidden it’s all about balance bicycle polo was first invented in Ireland at the late 19th century it’s modern urban version arrived here in Poland in 2004 the game’s popular with bike couriers with more than 100 players in the country
Including 30 here in Warsaw this group practices three times a week the hardest thing in this game is controlling the bike and that’s the most important thing to most players don’t have much trouble controlling the ball with the stick but they do with staying on their bike
Everything has to be done with one hand on the handlebars steering the bike come over I just cleared the wrinkle the urban polo World Championship was due to be held in Warsaw but the weather decided otherwise but that didn’t stop the keenest bikers playing few games for fun attracting some interests from the
Odd passerby