Polo Videos

7.42 I'd say not premeditated - just frustration - allow it
8.28 Dick move - Woods should have stayed up

Amazing videos, if the film crew knew the game more they could have followed the play better which I guess will come in time hopefully.

Amazing camera work, but unremittingly defensive play from both teams. On video (IMO) it's a very boring game to watch, with lots of messy, crammed goal mouth hacking and blocking, very few open plays and only one nice goal (Hooks' weird off-side crash/goal). I think if we're going to make polo more appealing, we need to encourage the opposite, but that discussion is going on elsewhere...

I watched a couple of minutes, then started again with a pen and paper and made the following observations:

Total shots - Hooks 19, CMD 25.

Shots on 2+ goalies - Hooks 15, CMD 10.
...which led to losing possession - Hooks 11, CMD 5
...which led to a goal - Hooks 1, CMD 2*

Less than 2 goalie shots - Hooks 4, CMD 15
....which led to losing possession - Hooks 4, CMD 9
....which led to a goal - Hooks 0, CMD 2*

I wanted the stats to show that double-goalieing is too advantageous, but CMD showed they can score on any double/triple goalie setups, where Hooks couldn't. If I can be bothered (unlikely) it would be interesting to see the results from an 'open' team (SB?) versus a defensive team...

*(The eagle-eyed will note I only have four goals for CMD, which pretty much fucks up the validity of anything, but I wasted 25 minutes of my morning on that, so fuck it). It's hard to call some of the shots, some aren't on camera, and it's debatable when there's 2 or more goalies some times. If someone else can be bothered to do the same exercise, we can average out the tallies... Most likely nobody cares.

No polo in Birmingham today then Dan?

Ha, there was, but I woke up at 6.30am and had hours to kill. I was all excited to watch some of the best teams in Europe kick some ass... but then...

To me, this video is a huge motivator to try out 'one static player in the D' or something similar. I thought goalie fucking could discourage such defensive play, but both teams did it a fair bit in this game, and it didn't stop either of them erecting a wall in front of goal as their default position.

This.

Documentary about Barcelona bike polo, from 2 years ago, and with Pablo's accident.

http://vimeo.com/10703067

EHBPC2012 Moteur Fuckers-Cocorico on Vimeo

EHBPC2012 Moteur Fuckers-Dead Rappers on Vimeo

Thanks, Clement!

um, that's not dead rappers

Are you sure Dave? That's Emmet on the charge I reckon.

Either I've gone completely mad, or you didn't watch more than two seconds of the vid

According to the startpicture of the video, its Moteur Fuckers vs. Guacapolo from Brussles..

thank fuck. i dont want to see that game. Rather see losing to l'equipe or call me daddy if i have to see losing. Don't want to see losing to SB either jono before you ask! :)

That is indeed "Guacapolo", not Dead Rappers

Nah, it's Rappers for sure.

It is like you don't even care, Jono.

Hang on, at second glance it might be Guacapolo. They're using Luca as a sub though, right? Did that happen?

Nah, it's Rappers for sure.

Hang on, at second glance it might be Guacapolo. They're using Luca as a sub though, right? Did that happen?.

[Buzzer sound!] End of the guessing rally, indeed, it's us, Güacapolo, but we had to wear for this game blue shirts instead our green ones, as we and Moteur Fuckers wear the same colours.
And no, despite of the Mycro helmet or the bike handling skills, it's not Luca but Vincent aka Pôl Poil, which plays with Antoine and me instead of Molo since Polorama.
Never mind, guys. Cheers!

PS: Quite nice to see at least one complete game of us on a video, even if it was our first in the tourney and not our best, thanks to Clément (or Quentin or Sarah), maybe Clément can sort it out and put the right name, THX.

The EHBPC Paris 2012 section on my account is shoot and upload by Michel from Les Fritz. Im pretty sure he knows better than Dead rappers who they are, if he wrote that for a titlte, then it is... sorry about it.

Im pretty sure he knows better than Dead rappers who they are, if he wrote that for a titlte, then it is... sorry about it.

Ha ha ha, Clément, you're priceless! Well, what can I say if you know it all better? Michel, did you heard? Clément is thinking the world of you! You'll be the editor in chief for the worlds, I can say! ;-)
(BTW, thx to you, Mich')

Documentary about Barcelona bike polo, from 2 years ago, and with Pablo's accident.

http://vimeo.com/10703067

Woah! Is this true?!

nuts to fixed. i like my fingers.

Pablo will be here for the open, you can check.

Woah! Is this true?!

Pablo will be here for the open, you can check.

You don't want to check that....

shit, did he loose 2 fingers? the shot at the end looks like it, I did that to my thumb once but it just punctured the nail

In case you havent' seen it yet... Pretty good work by PBP for the highlights footage of the Euros.

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