Polo in the News

just scanned it using my pigeon spanish (similar to portugese)... here's a google translation

** Polo: shots on two wheels **
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A ball, a putter that looks like a hammer and where ground roll, so you play bike polo
The "Metro" speaks about a sport in fashion **

Players control the saddle ably, as well as clubs with which control the ball, and multi-dao is in ecstasy with each goal scored. But when the game ends, there is no ca sugar cubes to give the horses. The sport is called bike polo, and throws himself between spokes, saddles and wheels. Hulls, this time, were left out. This sport and practice it's like the grass, and a game that was born for over 100 years, "explains Brendan McNamee-ta filmmakers, fans, or supplier of the championship version of the urban asphalt, which had already reached several citi- des around the world.
Polo urban bicy-ta get when several riders were filmed mallets to give a ball park in a parking-up in Seattle, it is ten years. Not changed greatly since then-to. Now the clubs are adaptations of ski poles with elements of lead.

***"With the pole Bicycle the idea and power enjoy a urban environment " Brendan McNamee, DIRECTOR ***

"One of the key ideas and be able to enjoy an urban environment," said McNamee. And partly gra-tions to this accessibility and versatility that the sporting-to has grown, coming from
Testimony U.S. to London and then throughout Europe. "America is about five years our fren you," says Jon Marshall, chairman of the Lon-don Hard Court Bike Polo Association. But London is proving that it can become one of the centers of the sport: the account already contains more than 150 players from about 5000 that the U.S. League of Bike Polo U.S. predicts that exist on the planet.
"Americans have a much more aggressive because of ice hockey," says Marshall. As the hub of a bicycle and sports for re-namic, the rules are fluid, evolving every year, the me-dida new teams entering. For now they have long-ce as a niche sport, although it attracts the sponsors that vary from bike companies
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AND SO FUN
*HUGO FRENCH TEAM MEMBER LAQUERBE DANS TA Geula PUCEAU***
We are a team of six: three in Paris, one in Grenoble, one Canadian and one American. We were in 9th place in the last World Cup, among 100 teams. The de-port arrived in France in 2008, he began playing more and not stop. And fa-cil: we are in the ci-nity. We took the bike, he started playing and already we're having fun. And definitely a growing sport. Most just started playing in the last two years and has been an increase in tournaments. Municipalities are beginning to support.

*** Five steps to being "pro" in bicycle polo: ***
1Choose your vehicle: a bicycle with a minimalist design with no metal parts, or gear for better control and greater speed. Put covers on the disc wheel, to protect them from strokes wrong, or lost balls;
2Face your cue: to work, but worth it. Use to lead the clubhead and ski poles to the wrist;
3Procure in your area: Search the Internet for blogging sites with information so-bre and where and when the groups meet;
4Socialize: Appears as a potential player (do not forget to bring a few beers ... builds bridges);
5Jogue: between the field and have fun in this first confrontation.

** Bikes and urban chic **
The bikes are coming to tor-nar in a more elegant way to traverse the urban centers of the world. And with the growing online communities, blogs on fashion of the two wheels are also gaining popularity. Blogs as 'Cycle Chic' so-bre cities as the Copenhagen or Odessa has been spoken in Finan-cial Times and Vogue. Though bicycle polo is not yet having reached the mainstream, will already have a buzzing online community and a distinct aesthetic well-ta. Instead of elegant sets around the city, proves to be an urban style, simi-lar to other sporting-products such as surfing and skateboarding.
The director Brendan McNamee believes the bike polo has enjoyed much of the "habit of cycling." "I think people get obsessed with their bikes," he says. But not only is the clothing of the players. The color combination on the wheels, all perso-internalized, is the aesthetics of the keys to a des-port, says Jon Marshall's Hardcourt Bike Polo Association London.