East Vs. West, East Wins World Title!

Just to clear something up.

Jon K = Jonathan Kwiatkowski = TOFU

This is the same Jonathan K. who verbaly attacked Mr. Joe Hendry on the messenger list.

TOFU… stop being such a pawn for the organisers who are not brave enough to speak up for themselves.

For the record… CMWC2008.inc went out of their way to derail the polo tournament.

A few examples are NOT ever mentioning POLO in the NOW adds ????? and NOT coming through with the supplies that were requested over 9 months ago ???????

What’s done is done.
We need to stop trying to hang someone.. and start acting like adults.

PS $12,000 I have no idea which hole you pulled that number from
PPS PUT SOME FUCKIN CLOTHS ON TOFU.

just to clear things up a bit,

i am tofu.

i am not jon k. or jonathon k. or jonathan kwiatkowski. i am just tofu.

i am not this ardent guy posting above, or the jonathon k. who posted on the messenger website.

all the best

I am glad I contacted Tofu to make him aware that someone is writing in Tofu’s Christian name..

I know, I know… Tofu only likes to go by Tofu..and he didnt write any of these posts.

So I wonder then, who ARE you “jon K.” or “Ardent” with all your fake financial info? Where did you get all this false information? And why are you using someone else’s old handles?!? You seem very personally invested in defending the image of CMWC 2008 Inc. for just a “volunteer”….

If you would like to clear this up please contact me off list / face to face. This is not the forum for any of this.

mr_navid at yahoo.com
416-606-8812

My two-scents:

Bike Polo is a relatively new extreme sport played by poor low to middle class citizens in urban cities around the world. I use the adjective “extreme” to refer to the amount of violence in the sport, as well as the sport’s high risk for liability insurance claims. This sport is often played without helmets and other vital protective gear since the sport is not regulated. Bicycle messengers make up the majority of the sport’s grass root athlete’s. Therefore, it can be said that the sport is played by undereducated citizens, criminals, drug addicts, the mentally challenged and members of visible minority groups. Bike Polo is primarily dominantly played by men, although the sport has attracted few women that are attracted by the cheap bright rainbow style of the sport.

During any bike polo tournament there is alcohol consumptions: STUPID! A true athlete knows that they are held as role models to the children in the surrounding communities, and therefore would NEVER be caught seen publicly smoking, drinking and smoking “herb”. The athlete’s of this sport are disgraceful because they lack intelligence, style, etiquette, morals and ethics. Drugs and alcohol during any sport tournament, fundraiser and/or event is prohibited by every other sport—- except for bike polo which is a poor man’s sport and therefore, you can witness these wannabe-athletes’s spitting, breaking glass, fighting, consuming drugs and alcohol. Rarely do any of these teams come equipped with a first aid kit!

No wonder there is so much bickering between players and online. No wonder the competitions are poorly promoted and advertised. No wonder most bike polo teams are too lazy and unskilled to maintain a website. No wonder the accident rate and mortality rate in messengers is higher than those that simply cycle. If this sport truly wants to advance, it will require a major change in the way these so called athlete’s perform, behave, organize and play the sport. I don’t see this happening until middle-upper class citizen’s catch onto this game and start to compete against the lower class athlete’s. That will force these bike messengers to truly get serious, shape up, grow up and learn the true meaning of an athlete.

Good Luck!

Wow Big Ten, you’re over a year late to comment on this post. I wonder why you chose this one over the 100’s of other ones? And no, it doesnt bother me that you made so many unqualified statements about bike polo. There are way too many players of the sport in countries all over the world for your words to be remotely close to the truth.
Good luck to you, who ever you may be.

I can see where Big Ten get his/her opinion…. anyone watch Pedal?

ya……………. exactly.

Pedal is not really a good place to start if one wants to learn about polo.
A 2001 film about New York City bike messengers has little to do with hardcourt bike polo as a whole in 2009.

Too funny!