Polo in the News

great news!

not quite the news but i caught a mid 40 year old indian man pushing his kids along She bu market today sporting a ralph polo T'shirt. i quizzed him on it (never looked like he saw a bike) and he tells me he picked it up in TKMAX..

its going global...

yep, they sell all the chunk polos in TKMAX

A write up on Philadelphia Bike Polo dated July 25th 2011

Ha!:

"You're going to go home with welts," said Cris George, 35, moments before he crashed into the boards Monday night and went home with welts

Good article, nice writing style.

Le Coq Sportif
http://www.sneakerfreaker.com/newsflash/Le-Coq-Sportif-London-Bike-Polo-Open-Recap/

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.226889460681827.51050.163442597026514

Woody is such a media whore.

did anyone watch channel 4 last night? (i dont have a telly) but my mate texted me to turn it on, i can only imagine that there was something about polo.

Didn't watch it but there was some program on about urban sports.

something to do with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIGYjCvu0go

Can see all the shorts here:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/concrete-circus/articles/the-films

it was 4 or 5 'Urban Sports practitioners', making movies for C4, Danny Macaskill, Killian Martin? the skater, some flatland bmxer and those parkour guys, it was ok, Macaskill was the standout video for me though...

that macaskill stuff was ridiculous

There wasn't anything in polo, unless I missed something.

Must admit I thought the skater and bmxer were more interesting than macaskill, although riding along a wire was ridiculous.

Parkour is shit though. They had to set themselves on fire to make it look interesting.

There wasn't anything in polo, unless I missed something.

Must admit I thought the skater and bmxer were more interesting than macaskill, although riding along a wire was ridiculous.

Parkour is shit though. They had to set themselves on fire to make it look interesting.

Around about the 56-59sec mark of the parkour video, is that shit? Admittedly a lot of it isn't mind blowing but it's far from uninteresting.

Some of the stuff they do is pretty cool (in the, wow - someone can do that? - sense). But it's so contrived. This is what, in my opinion, makes it less interesting.

I liked the flamethrower.

i thoguht the skating/parkouring was pretty impressive

I liked the roller blading.

Hang on, where'd his hat go! Man, I thought that gif was real for years!

It is real! It just blew off 'cause he spinned so fast!

^ fact

Parkour is different to freerunning. Parkour is a movement philosophy, freerunning is tricks and shit.

My degree was so worthwhile.

Parkour is a movement philosophy, freerunning is tricks and shit.

So is Mrak Freerolling?