first 3 minutes of “3,2,1..”KiLL!” from Oleg J on Vimeo.
Here is a sneak peek of soon to be released “3,2,1..”KiLL!” documentary about fast growing hard court bike polo scene in North America.
Title Sequence Credits:
Director – Oleg Jiliba
Director of Photography – Anthony Munoz
Additional camera operator – Oleg Jiliba
1st Assistant – Andrew Bull
Editor – Oleg Jiliba
We are starting to get really good turn outs for our Sunday polo sessions with quite a few newbies.
Thanks to everyone for turning up and playing last weekend – Locky, Stephen, Marty, Rootbeer, Julien, Isobel, Dan, Alex, Betoni, Christian and Paddy. Thanks also to our number one spectators Kelsey, Donald and that really cute three-legged dog that always stops to say hello.
It looks like Sydney will be sending quite a few teams to Brisbane for Nationals this year so you interstaters better start practising!
We’re happy to announce that Melbourne Bike Polo will be holding a tournament the weekend before some of our Australian teams head over to compete in Berlin
If you couldn’t make it overseas, then this is your opportunity to join in the fun and send off the aussie teams before the big match
Registration is open from 25th July till August 5th here http://www.bikepolo.com.au/register/
The game format will be Double Elimination
When: Saturday 7th August, starting 11am. We will meet in the CBD outside the State Library at 10:30am and ride out to the court
Where: Fishmarkets Arena
What: Bring chairs, drinks, warm clothes, food and water
How much: $5 per player. All proceeds go to our Aussie teams in Berlin.
A batch of beer is being brewed as we speak for this event, so bring your own glass.
Ladies and Gentlemen, A new sport has been formed off the back of Bike Polo
Melbourne Bike Polo ran a three game demonstration match at RMIT University building 45 for the Matchpoint.Melbourne exhibition on how to re use urban spaces for sporting purposes which included Bike Polo.
After we played our demo match, some kids were rolling around on the chairs, others joined in. They started knocking the ball around. More people grabbed a chair and the nearest stick they could find and joined in. This is when the first recorded game of Chair Polo was conceived.
The players were given a quick run down of some basic rules and swapped out most of the heavy wooden blocks for Polo mallets, reset the ball to the middle and counted down 3,2,1,Kill!
Holy crap, what an awesome spectacle!
The number of moves was amazing. You can push players away with the back of your chair, hook your mallet on to their chair leg and spin them around, kick the ball away with your feet, goalies could lay their mallets/sticks flat to defend the goals, no holds barred! The only rule is if you stand up off your seat or fall off, you have to tap back in at centre court (a la polo)
Enjoy some of the raw footage captured here