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DC Bike Polo
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The blood of 1,000 spokes.
Male
28 years old
THE DEAD CITY, Washington DC
United States
Last Login: 2/23/2009
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| General | These are the rules we use for both regular and tournament play:
-Two teams of three players.
-Any type of bicycle is allowed. Handlebars must be plugged.
-Mallets must resemble a croquet mallet with a wide side and a round end. Modified ski poles and plastic pipe are the most common materials. The handle end of the mallet must be plugged.
-The ball will be a street hockey ball.
-Goals will be a pair of orange cones spaced one bike length apart.
-If a goal cone is disrupted it is the responsibility of the player who disrupted it to fix it.
-Start of a game: Each team will be stopped behind its own goal line and the ball will be positioned at center court. Play will begin with a “3 2 1 GO!” from the sideline.
-Players may not play the ball with their feet at any time.
-Scoring a goal must be made from what started as a hit. A hit is made from the end of a player’s mallet. A “shuffle” does not count as a goal; if the ball is shuffled through the goal, play continues uninterrupted.
-After a goal is scored, the team who scored returns to their half of the court. The team who was scored on takes possession of the ball.
-Call out the score after each goal.
-Passing “backward” through the goal (from behind the goal line to in front of it, through the goal, a.k.a. “goal offsides”): When the ball is passed through the goal in this way, a goal CANNOT be scored by the first player to play the ball. Any subsequent player to play the ball may score. If a ball is shot from in front of the goal line and does not go through the goal but bounces off the back wall and comes out through the goal, the ball is in play and can be scored.
-Players must not touch the ground, or “foot-down”. Each time a player goes foot-down, that player is out of play and may not play the ball until they ride to the side line at center court andring the belltap the wall with their mallet. Then they may return to play. It is poor etiquette not to go immediately and directly to the tap-out bell once you go foot-down.
-Contact rules: “Like” contact is allowed. Player to player (body to body), except grabbing with hands. Mallet to mallet (generally, hitting another player’s mallet is poor etiquette if that player is not attempting to play the ball or in front of the goal, playing goalie). Bike to bike.
-Everything else is NOT allowed: Mallet to player, player to bike, mallet to bike, etc.
-Throwing of mallets is not allowed at any time, in any situation.
-Games are played to 5 points.
-Trash talking is encouraged.
HOW TO MAKE A POLO MALLET*
(*this is kinda old, but gives you an idea of what we're working with. we've since redesigned and gone with something stronger than PVC, but alas, no tutorial yet.)
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I don't know his name, but this little kid helped us paint our rink. Thanks little man. Here, have a doughnut.
Doud D and Ben. Two of the finest. |
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Serious Relationships | | Body type: | 4' 9" / More to love! | | Ethnicity: | Pacific Islander | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn |
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