Polo

 

Polo game is the fastest in the world of sport , it began appearing in China and Persia about 2,500 years ago and was then known as the Hangar , with the participation of men and women in, and it depends on where the ball and racket -shaped head with a wooden mallet cylindrical shape.

Horse of the most important players for this game , and horses are considered Punic generated in Argentina best polo horses , they are eligible to be a good player in the sport interesting , the short edges and small size.

Naming is due out this game to the word ( Polo ) , which means in the language of Tibet ( football ) , thanks in introducing polo in the west of the British soldiers, civilians who lived in India during the nineteenth century .
In the thirties of the twentieth century, Argentina has become the leading country in polo in the world , and the first game took place Polo registered in Britain occurred in 1869 .

 

Polo necessary courts and fields of its own , like any other play, and has an area of ​​polo field about 275 × 180 meters. It can also be implemented in the polo field Exposed , or in the field of internal . It's played by two teams each consisting of four players , and each team tries to push the ball into the net liabilities.

The game is divided to take each half runs of seven and a half minutes , the game consists of five to six runs , and the competition consists of four small , are changing horses Punic after each half . It is worth mentioning that not one horse pony . More plays two games per match . It allows for the removal if the player broke his stick ball or install in place for disability for hitting the ball .

The dress up of the polo rider is the helmet has to be fitted with trumpeter face , long brown shoes , white pants and a short , ball made ​​of wood , gloves to protect the hands , leather saddles , long stick made ​​of bamboo , and condom knee .

Arena polo is characterized by the exposed surface of the grass length of 274 meters and width 183 meters.

Polo players used plastic balls ranging in diameter between 3 and 3.5 inches , and weighs between 3.5 and 4.5 ounces, that is, between 100 and 130 gm . Players and carries hammers made ​​of the asset or bamboo trees ranging in length between 48 and 54 inches , and between 122 and 138 cm . And installs on both sides of a piece of wood racket horizontal solid , and on the other end of the light stripe fabric, a severe form of tarpaulins , and prove that the tape on the thumb of the hand.
 

 The horses are called over which this game polo ponies . It takes training and polo pony for between six months and a year. It should be has the ability to stand up quickly , spin , drift, and the resumption of the enemy with minimal loss of speed . The harder the skills required of a dowry in daring bumped another horse at angles up to each of them 45 ° so as soon as it is received from the rider . Equipment consists of polo horse saddle and bridle and gags and raincoats legs or bandages .

 

 

 

At the beginning of the game , each team takes its positions to defend his goal. Plays the first and second passenger in the foreground ( bombers ) , and plays the third and fourth passenger in the back ( defender of mankind ) .

Polo as a sport of the sports that take place in the open air in all of Egypt , India and England . In America it has been set up for the first game in the Polo Stadium closed in New York in 1876 . The Polo has been an indoor sport in the United States until 1880 , when it became a popularity equal to the popularity of Polo stadiums exposed.