What's going on in the Poloverse

mm berlin .Oberhausen is like 2 weeks after the uk champs innit

What the dates for the euros ?

Anyone know the dates?

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Nice vid...

Three months without polo and only a bit of cross country skiing and my right arm is still fucked. Elbow consistently lumpy. I def need an operation. I wonder if i will ever play semi professional hammer ball again. *weeps.

Elbow consistently lumpy...*weeps.

Are you sure this isn't a consequence of your efforts as an author? When was the last time you conducted a Health and Safety in the Workplace assessment of your writing workspace?

i do find it funny that a guy with my name wrote a book called the last high king. (I'm the other one MUT)
Actually Em, the writing does make it worse. But i reckon i have bone chips floating around i never dealt with and they flare up. #bikepoloruinedmylife

Ooof. Sounds brutal.

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Pictures of the Vicenza main court. The walls look terrifying.

The walls look terrifying.

what's wrong with them?

maybe the fact that it's hard concrete not 'springy' wood boards

Motorbike disc guard. Plastic and 90g before bolts etc, 4mm thick everywhere, absolutely solid. P clip on fork for extra solidness. Bit of pipe to space it from axel and rear qr skewer Holding everything together.

love that guard, infact, love that whole bike! more photos please

Big developments to the 2014 EHBPC.

Apologies for the REALLY late reply but there's something new on the plate!
We waited so long 'cause we were trying to find a solution - courts dimensions speaking.
Last weekend we hosted the 10th edition of Mazza d'Oro, 36 Italian teams in 4 court located in three different places in Vicenza. We played the finals (32 double eliminations) at Pomari, our new two courts, Vicenza bike Polo home. This was a test for EHBPC 2014. While the 40X20 is perfect, the 34X18 is really too small.
The other place we had considered, San Giuseppe, is good for the qualification but not good enough for the finals because it doesn't offer a good view for the spectators, and there is no room for gazebos and tents for our side activities.

For all of these reasons, we are back to an old idea:
Move EHBPC 2014 from Vicenza to Padova.
The plan is to move the whole location to the Padova bike polo location: they have two awesome outdoor hockey rinks in the middle of the city, where we did the first edition of Polorama, in 2012. This is the perfect location for the finals, 40x20, super grippy, high boards, well-lighted, perfect visibility from outside and enough room to host side activities.
It will be in the same weekend, so don't worry if you've already booked your trip, Padova is 30km from Vicenza and the connection airports are the same: Venice or Verona.
Padova Bike Polo (Rode) did Polorama first edition, in collaboration with us, back in 2012; also they did an awesome job last September with the first edition of MACRO, a big international tournament, a really awesome job!
We'll organize EHBPC 2014 with them.

At the moment we got two 4 courts options ( and two 3 courts options:

1. four 40x20 high wood walls courts inside the Padova Fair buildings, for rounds; the final day at PBP's place.

2. two 40x20 big wood walls courts inside Padova Fair building, two at Padova Bike Polo place, for rounds; PBP's place for the finals. The two locations are 4,5km one from the other. (2+2 courts)

3. Two courts at PBP place, one 40X20 big wood walls court at Prato della Valle, really close to the PBP courts (600m). We are in touch with Padova city council to have the permission to build it (2+1 courts).

4. Two courts at PBP place, one big wood walls courts 3km far from PBP place on a cement flat inside a park (2+1 courts)
   Option 1 is all indoor, option 2 is half indoor half outdoor, 3 and 4 are all outdoor.

Wednesday we'll have a final meeting with Padova city council, after that we can confirm the Prato della Valle option. Prato della valle is an ancient square, one of the biggest in Europe, downtown Padova. The surface is tar newly made.

We've already started working with EHBPA for slot assignations.

Vicenza Bike Polo, Padova Bike Polo.

Four indoor courts sounds amazing... I may have to get a wildcard team together...
#lasteuropeanhurrah

I thought it was in the bag for Southern France? When would we be likely to see a location decision and confirmation of dates? Well up for a South of France road trip but the Padova courts were next level when Adam and I went in 2012.

Worlds are Montpellier. That what you're thinking of?

Oh, yeah.

Any more details on the worlds then, dates, satellite tournaments etc?

Who is bidding for the euros? Also what dates are they looking at?

Maybe it's all on LOBP, guess i'll never know...

The propsed Prato Della Velle location looks stunning.

Maybe it's all on LOBP, guess i'll never know...

Yep, all in there dude.

guys,
The WHBPC14 dates will be:
on monday and tuesday (25 and 26th) mounting of the courts
Wildcard on wednesday, and main tournament to thrsday (28th) to saturday (30th), on sunday we'll dismounting the courts. during the Week End of the 23-24, Bordeaux will host an Open (Bordeaux is about 3-4 hours to Montpellier by car)
And the next Week End after the WHBPC, Barcelone host his Open too !

Berlin Open
Mallet Dolorosa
Bordeaux Open
WHBPC14 Montpellier
Barcelone Open

A tournament every Week during 5 weeks, and maybe more

[quote]Berlin Open
Mallet Dolorosa
Bordeaux Open
WHBPC14 Montpellier
Barcelone Open

A tournament every Week during 5 weeks, and maybe more
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And for everything else, there's Mastercard.

Australian Champs. Fuck yeah Erin!

1st The Fist (Andy, David MLB, Sean SEA)
2nd Alchemists (Ned, Scott, Jordan PER)
3rd The Sentinels (Erin, Ollie, Max BNE)

Padova Polorama was awesome. The two existing courts are great, the city is beautiful... now let's qualify.

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