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sneak peek of “3,2,1..”KiLL!”

Damon — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:46:25 +0000

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

Sundays in Sydney

Virginia — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:23:55 +0000

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!

Pre-WHBPC Tournament Sat 7th August

Rob M — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:18:29 +0000

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.

Chair Polo invented here in Melbourne

Rob M — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:10:40 +0000

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

Game, set, match

Damon — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:21:06 +0000

Extract from The Age, July 2, 2010, Page 15

From transport to sport, “Matchpoint Melbourne” takes the city’s reputation for major sporting events and applies it to more grassroots activities and less grandiose locations. Thinking lawn bowls for St Kilda hipsters? A little too sedate. Matchpoint takes to the streets, colonising public space and regearing popular activities: laneway cricket, underpass go-kart racing and bicycle polo are the new urban gaming. The organisers believe a celebration of the small can only reinforce tourism, while simultaneously engaging more people.

Winter Whack Tournament, Christchurch NZ

Damon — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:09:25 +0000

Thought I’d drop you an email to invite your respective bike polo crews to our “Winter Whack” tournament here in Christchurch – NZ. It’s going to be held on Saturday 14th August – yes we’re fully aware that date is the same as the Worlds in Berlin and will sadly exclude some of you from attending.

That said, we figured there’s a bunch of Aussie players who’d love to play in an international tournament but can’t get to Berlin (for whatever reason)….”Christchurch the Berlin of the Southern Hemisphere”!!

Auckland are sending down a couple of teams to play and we have hooked up with a few sponsors, including Eighthinch with their blinged out golden mallets as first place prize – worth the trip to NZ alone, surely!

It’s 6 weeks away and should still allow some financial recovery time before the Nationals in Brisbane for those who need to factor in travel costs to both. Can you guys let others in your cities know about this. We’ll get the publicity poster out in the next few days and I’ll start to infiltrate your forums and blogs too.

Cheers

Craig Johnston
(aka Polo Camo)

Christchurch Hardcourt Bike Polo

Melbourne Bike Fest – November

Damon — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 06:52:55 +0000

Melbourne BFF 2009 has become the Melbourne Bike Fest 2010!

Expect polo.

www.melbournebikefest.com.au

State of Design – Bike Polo

Damon — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:06:15 +0000

As bike polo players, we have a different take on the urban environment around us, when we see a car park, we think of what it could be, after the cars have gone home to sleep. We are competitors in a sport that is still developing, largely unknown to mainstream society and not planned or accomodated for in a traditional way. Melbourne Bike Polo is being featured in an exhibition and symposium as part fo the current State of Design festival.

Matchpoint.Melbourne!

Melbourne’s major sporting events attract worldwide attention; however, social sports in the inner city are also thriving but go largely unnoticed. Matchpoint.Melbourne is an urban research and design project that suggests how the framework for our everyday sporting activities could be more consciously designed to reveal a dynamic new facet of the city’s well recognised urban culture. In this way, the project aims to connect Melbourne’s branding initiatives to projects of real social substance.

Exhibition Opening: July 1, 2010, 6pm
Exhibition Dates: July 2–18, 2010, open daily 5-8pm, with extended events
July 15 Symposium & Bike Polo Demonstration, 3-7pm, Party, 7pm

Venue: RMIT Building 45, 33 Lygon Street (opposite Trades Hall)

www.matchpointmelbourne.com

Matchpoint.Melbourne 2008 presentation in Austria from Thomas Fussenegger on Vimeo.

David’s Bike Polo Check

Damon — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:36:37 +0000

Frickin awesome video. two oh sickness.

Yehuda Moon is a Newbie

Damon — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:40:49 +0000

Yehuda Moon is a great little webcomic, just this week Yehuda happens by a game and gets drawn into bike polo! Meanwhile Melbournes own Anthony Siracusa (on loan from Memphis TN) has just won the Yehuda look alike contest!