- This photo is incredible
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Auto_pol...
by etrautmann
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- Fun to see this here. I had the good fortune of participating in the first match of motorcycle polo in Rwanda back in 2007. This continued on for a while and eventually got a writeup in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/sports/motorized-polo-gai...
- I’m sure many of us are reminded immediately of the old Top Gear auto football matches:
https://youtu.be/SIeu7_-iwdw
- "The official inventor of auto polo...devised the sport as a publicity stunt in 1911 to sell Model T cars."
Amazing to see how little has changed in 100 years when it comes to competing for attention
by msuniverse2026
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- Australian Motorcycle Chariot Race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1avID4bJ3pw
- Unsurprisingly, it died out "mostly due to the high cost of replacing vehicles". Was it the inspiration for demolition derbies?
by merelysounds
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- I guess the modern day equivalent (technology that’s relatively new, unsafe and unregulated) would be electric scooter polo? I found no sign of a sport like this though.
I think kick scooter polo exists. And bike polo[1] is well known.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcourt_Bike_Polo
- Bike Polo is still alive https://youtu.be/CBZgC7u6ji8 and for example https://youtu.be/PxMms5Yh_gI
- Vehicles ... dirt track ... large, wooden mallets ... no protective gear ... I see this as an absolute win!
by nticompass
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- Can someone add this as a new game mode in Rocket League?
- Was? Not with this attitude!
- What an incredibly bad idea!
To hear it was "popular"...
- > though deaths due to auto polo were rare.
Oh well, then...
- Rocket League is basically the video game version of this.
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