Too many Polo threads!

what Mikey said<

An excellent start.

I know this goes against the actual title of this thread but should we start a new thread... or ask VB to change the title with date etc.

I'd like to help...

1. Brain-Flick
   
2. Bill
   
3. Object
   
4. Shinscar
   
5. Mike[trampsparadise]
   
6. dt
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Just reading kev's post on the polo forum about how heavy our ball is.
Will this be the one we stick with or get global?

when is this meeting takig place? sooner or later?

we play with a heavy ball...period

we play with a heavy ball...period

did that make me sound American?...f'real?

we play with a heavy ball...period

+1

Seeing people's faces after a dt 'special' is worth the pain of receiving one yourself.

**Rule No.1 **no left handed players.

+1 to changing the thread name

Mike, that stuff is a great start.
Bill, We will publish rules/agenda.

I think so long as there is a good representation at the initial meeting then it will be fine. Surely most people just want to play regular games of competitive polo right?

a good place to start with for the rules

-Two teams of three players.
-Any type of bicycle is allowed. Handlebars MUST be plugged.
-mallets must resemble a croquet mallet with a wide side and a round end. Modified ski poles and plastic pipe are the most common materials. The handle end of the mallet MUST be plugged.
-The ball will be a field hockey ball .
-Goals will be a pair of orange cones spaced one bike length apart.
-If a goal cone is disrupted it is the responsibility of the player who disrupted it to fix it.
-Start of a game: Each team will be stopped behind its own goal line and the ball will be positioned at center court. Play will begin with a “3 2 1 GO!” from the sideline.
-Players may not play the ball with their feet at any time.
-Scoring a goal must be made from what started as a hit. A hit is made from the end of a player’s mallet. A “shuffle” does not count as a goal; if the ball is shuffled through the goal, play continues uninterrupted.
-After a goal is scored, the team who scored returns to their half of the court. The team who was scored on takes possession of the ball.
-Call out the score after each goal.
-Passing “backward” through the goal (from behind the goal line to in front of it, through the goal, a.k.a. “goal offsides”): When the ball is passed through the goal in this way, a goal CANNOT be scored by the first player to play the ball. Any subsequent player to play the ball may score. If a ball is shot from in front of the goal line and does not go through the goal but bounces off the back wall and comes out through the goal, the ball is in play and can be scored. A ball that crosses a goal line backwards must be “hit” before it can score.
-Players must not touch the ground, or “foot-down”. Each time a player goes foot-down, that player is out of play and may not play the ball until they ride to the side line at center court and tap in.
-Contact rules: “Like” contact is allowed. Player to player (body to body), except grabbing or pushing with hands. Mallet to mallet (generally, hitting another player’s mallet is poor etiquette if that player is not attempting to play the ball or in front of the goal, playing goalie). Bike to bike.
-Everything else is NOT allowed: Mallet to player, player to bike, mallet to bike, etc.
-Throwing of mallets is not allowed at any time, in any situation.
-Games are played to 5 points.

Here is my opinion great point made by bill, but we can have less people at the start to work out simple stuff then make sure that everyone is in agreement. It doesn't take 50 people to write up a simple set of guidelines.

Rule No. 2 no kicking the fucking ball.

This pissed me off when it would happen on Sunday.

Mallet to bell? (Gong)

Or is there a ringer?

**Rule No. 69 **touch my balls

Mike, that stuff is a great start.

that was my great start that i emailed to mike

why a bell on only one side? for regular play and for the tournament people could tap out at either side, so long as it was at the centre line.

well done seb....

Come on ref!?!

Yeah my bad.

Seb, that stuff is a great start.

why a bell on only one side? for regular play and for the tournament people could tap out at either side, so long as it was at the centre line.

+1

I was reading about this "debate" on bikepolo.ca. The one tap out spot rule seems odd.

i think league games need to be reffed, and league courts need to allow people to play behind the goal.

that was my great start that i emailed to mike

Yes, I was just about to say that. My work is at home (I'm at work now) but you covered just about everything so...

i think league games need to be reffed, and league courts need to allow people to play behind the goal.

I agree that games need refs
Not so sure about behind the goal play. Some of the best games I've watched and played have been at the North East court.

+1 for reffed games.

Yeah, I'm up for the initial discussion.

1. Brain-Flick
   
2. Bill
   
3. Object
   
4. Shinscar
   
5. Mike[trampsparadise]
   
6. dt
   7.JOL
   
7. Lebowski