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This document provides instructions for playing a modified game of polo. Teams consist of 4 players each who will pretend to ride horses (using picas) and use mallets to move the ball between cones to score goals against the opposing team. Key rules include all players on a team must touch the ball to score, players must imitate trotting, and mallets can only be used below the hip. The sport originated in India in the 19th century and was introduced to Britain and the United States, becoming an Olympic sport from 1900-1936.

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Polo

This document provides instructions for playing a modified game of polo. Teams consist of 4 players each who will pretend to ride horses (using picas) and use mallets to move the ball between cones to score goals against the opposing team. Key rules include all players on a team must touch the ball to score, players must imitate trotting, and mallets can only be used below the hip. The sport originated in India in the 19th century and was introduced to Britain and the United States, becoming an Olympic sport from 1900-1936.

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Polo

Materials/equipment: sticks, cones, Space: indoor and outdoor


tennis balls and breastplate
Number of participants: four people Duration: 4-8 times 7 minuts
per team (everyone in the class)
Task description:

To play a polo match in our installations we teams of 4 players will have to be
mounted on a pica like a horse and trotted with a stick in the other hand the
aim will be playing to get the ball between the cones other team that will be
the goal

Norms/rules:

- All players of the same team must touch the ball to score a goal.
- At all times you have to go imitating trotting horse.
- You can not beat a fellow with the stick.
- You can lift the stick above the hip.

Alternatives:

- Instead of going as horses trotting on a pica go for couples horse.
- Play with three goals in triangle and three teams in a larger space.
Graphic explanation:
















History:

India spends in the nineteenth century a British colony and the British military are excited
about a sport they had never seen before, in which the game was played on two teams
competing on ponies called Manipoor. That was when the first polo club was established in
Silchar, a near Manipoor area. John Watson was the first to formulate clear rules of polo in
India.
By 1860 the pole is introduced in England. By then the sport was called "Hockey Horse".
Some early England polo clubs were Monmouthshire, founded by Captain Francis or
Hurlingham. It is from here when the sport is internationalized and takes a significant
importance in the United States, and England. The pole becomes part of Olympic sports in
1900 and participate in five Olympic Games (until 1936). But What is the pole? Polo is a
game between two teams of four players each on horseback, competing for introducing a
ball in the opposing goal; for it have a sort of deck they call taco.

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