End of Year Pizza Polo

This Sunday will be the last Polo sesson for 2009 (can't see anyone dragging their asses down on boxing day).
We're planning on ordering pizza from next door, drinking and playing polo. Come along to play or watch, bobby has promised layer cake hmmmm! Tom will get drunk and Ash will hate everyone, hours of fun.
seeya there

goodbye Perth

After almost a month in Perth, we’ll be leaving town tomorrow. We’ve met tons of amazingly hospitable people, so this goes out to everyone who let us crash on their floor, took us for a ride, bought us a beer and played polo with us. Thanks a million! We are more than willing to return the favor in Antwerp, we’ll have a couch waiting and we’ll take you guys to a real (and affordable) Belgian beer café!

love! the Belgiums

BBQ

Tuesday Polo

Tuesday polo is back.
7pm at 86 thomas, try not to ride past the front doors security can be still there, cheers.
Here's something totally not polo related but awesome to see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YoF16LMWkM

Winner of One Handed Footdown

Brad, official one handed footdown champion!

Open letter to Angus

I was browsing over at the Perth section at Bikepolo.com.au and found this comment:


"Angus James wrote:

Dear Polo enthusiate, I did not realize that bike polo was being played in Perth, i play polo on horses back and have watched Bike polo in Argentina.

I would love to come and watch a match being played and would like to invite you to come to one of our horse back polo matches being played if you are interested…

Kind Regards Angus James 0427172568 "

Thanks Angus,

We play weekly on Sundays at the top floor of the Colonnade Carpark in Subiaco. Its on Hay Street and opposite Nandos. See map here. We usually meet up at 3pm and play till around 8pm Feel free to come and watch our games any time, I'm sure we could lend you a bike too if you were keen on playing!

I'd definitely be interested in watching horse polo sometime.

Regards

Prawi

Possible new location

So I went for a quick ride and bumped into this. Freshly re-paved carpark literally just around the corner from my place. It looks quite narrow, but to put things into perspective, the oval next to it is a soccer pitch. Its roughly the same width as the colonnade and a little longer.

The 4 arrows are lights. There were only two on when I got there, but there was enough lighting to see the whole carpark. Location is Hensman St, South Perth and the park is Ernest Johnson. Theres also quite a large carpark on the other side, I'll check that out tommorow.

Anyone keen to check it out and play a game of pickup sometime next week? (is South Perth too far from everybody?)

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More action

Will add photos as I find them.. stay tuned. This was our first game of the tournament versus Beaumont Children, can't remember the score but we won in the end.

AHBPC action

PCP vs Pink Panthers.

This was our final game and by far the most exciting. The game went to a tie breaker which went non stop. It was pouring with rain, making the court as slippery as ice. I was relegated to goalie through most of it and my heart was pumping like crazy throughout the game, some of the attacks Sydney made gave me mini heart attacks when it was 2v1. After some lucky blocks we continued playing our tie-breaker and it seemed like the game would never end. The rain was pouring heavily and Ash's brakes decided to fail at the worst possible time, making it impossible to stop quickly. There were falls left, right and centre, Brad had bruises in places unimaginable, and Ash had a bruised heel on one leg and a crook knee on the other, "I don't know which leg to limp on", he said. I fell halfway through the game and rolled my ankle, towards the end of the day it was looking like an egg!

In the end Steve (?), scored the final goal. Some of the crowd thought it was a shuffle, but PCP were happy not to contest and finish the game on a high. One of my favourite quotes for the weekend was "Polo was the Winner". Indeed it was, we had an awesome weekend watching, playing, and experiencing Melbourne culture. The cycling culture especially was amazing, cars gave you plenty of room and just seeing so many people out riding was great. Coming from Perth, seeing girls riding on old step through frames everywhere was like... wow. Hopefully that will rub off on Perth one day ;)

I'd like to give thanks to Melbourne Bike Polo Club for hosting it, its hard to imagine the amount of time and effort that was put in for the Championships. From setting up all the sponsorship to giving us food and shelter, it was all very much appreciated.

I think some people (including myself) forget why we started playing polo, and that was to have fun! We had lots of it, on and off the court. Undies reminded me of the old days in Perth, when we were still playing polo on our daily steeds and the phrase "Polo bike" was a foreign term. I'm looking forward to coming back to the courts, playing some pick-up, taking the brakes off and playing like we did in 2008 and just have some fun!

See you Sunday.

_Prawi