Polo looks relatively simple to play from the stands, but it’s anything but: it combines riding skill, mallet technique, strategy, and horse control at speed. Is polo hard to play? Yes — polo is genuinely difficult. It asks players to do three demanding things at once: ride a horse with one hand, swing a mallet …
When you watch polo players zooming across the field, you likely don’t give much thought to the sport’s equipment. But when leaving a recent match, that was precisely what popped into my mind, what equipment does a person need to play polo? Equipment used to play horse polo includes a saddle, mallet, and helmet, all …
From my experience, I know owning and caring for a horse is expensive, and during a polo match, players use multiple horses. While watching teams swap out their horses, I began to wonder, how expensive is this sport? Playing polo is expensive; the cost of a trained horse, plus its upkeep, puts polo out of …
When I took my wife to her first polo game, she had a blast but didn’t really pay attention to the game’s rules or strategy. At her second match, she wanted to know more about the nuances of the game. So I thought an article on how polo is played might benefit others as well. …
Polo has traditionally been seen as a royal sport, an escape for the super-wealthy, but is now rapidly gaining new audiences thanks to investments from new-money enthusiasts and everyday folk who find it more accessible. Polo is played in almost every country in Europe, North America, and many South American countries, with interest growing in …