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With a couple of tournaments approaching, many of you have been asking about the best methods for building a mallet. While there is no ‘ultimate’ solution, there have been plenty of new and lighter methods of attaching a mallet head to a shaft in the recent months. First up, here’s a pretty good video put [...]

Sydney Bike Polo held a Australia Day Mix-Up Tournament which produced a great day of polo, drinks and shenanigans. First off, thanks to Virginia for organizing the food and general tournament structure and items! Thanks also to the crowd and friends that turned up to watch and chillax. Unfortunately some of our players had various [...]

Check out the pic of our new trial system of sorting out games for pick-up sessions. The idea is to help out new players without mallets and reduce ‘doubling-up’ of some one using more than one mallet to sneak a few extra games in. Each player that comes down has a paddle-pop stick and magnet. [...]

Don’t forget that this Thursday is Sydney’s Australia Day Mix-Up Tournament starting from 11:30am. A relaxed individual tournament structured like our normal ‘throw-up’ weekly sessions. Each game randomly draws two teams of three. Each game awards points to the players of the winning team. At the end of the day, the top seeded players will [...]

London International Invitational 2012 from Jon Marshall on Vimeo. 20 of the top European teams headed to London last week for an invitational tournament. Here are some highlights put together by Jon from Spring Break. They’ve also put together an AMAZING followup story (highly recommended!) with plenty of great pics over at their teams website [...]

When thinking about where in the world would have the best courts, usually the first ones that come to mind are obviously East Vancouver’s polo specific court (first built in the world) and maybe New York’s “The Pit”. The third would have to be Molitor in France, which has been used for numerous photo shoots [...]

THE SHIRTS HAVE ARRIVED! All 100 of them are in Sydney and are ready to roll out for those that have paid Virginia. Don’t forget to bring money if you haven’t paid yet! We will try to have them at polo on Thursday night. There are still shirts available as we have ordered some extras. [...]

Not many of this years American/EU Tournaments have been posted yet, but this is DEFINITELY going to be one of the highlights! This all girls tournie draws in players from around the world for some of the best polo you’ll see all year! Check out this promo package from Mr. Do! Ladies Army Promo from [...]

Milking of from Uolmo on Vimeo. A group of players from Geneva have got together under the name ‘Milk Bike Polo‘ to create an impressive shaft and mallet head solution. Super quick to swap, sturdy and light, this system look the bizzz. As it’s still fairly new, they are a little pricey at around 17 [...]

For those looking at what’s next after Sydney’s tournament in February and Perth’s Australasian Championships in March, then here’s your answer! Winter Whack iii is Christchurch’s main event on the polo calendar with last years considered by many as the best tournament in Oz and NZ that year. Craig and the Christchurch players have nailed [...]