Question, What Should be a Penalty?

two more little things: i didn’t make the rules for the tourney and i have donated the use of bikepolo.ca for the website kev and i have been working on. go over there and make some noise, it will be up and running in the next day or so.

everyone in east van can attest to the fact that pieter and i have our differences from time to time so i hope it goes without saying that i am very sincere when i say this: thank you pieter. thank you for doing the best you could with what you had. your heart was in it. we all see that. all of us who helped out did so because we love this game and your help was biggest of all. thank you.

martin– differences no longer! i wear the facial scar you have bestowed upon me with pride! i have saved the wheels you taco’ed as a testament to our love! after toronto i know that all of us in the west are just so lucky. you couldn’t get a ref on the court on the pacific if you tried. all this rule talk is meaningless out here. we play for the sheer freaking joy of it and don’t have time for mewling. i think that’s why toronto took me by surprise, so much controversy. martin’s too busy scoring big fat goals from half court to give a shit about penalties.

hes gonna care when i make him eat pavement at the nacc. you too jack ass. its coming hard and fast and you wont get up without kissin my feet first.

headlock? i indeed flew off my bike, but, um, for the record, there was no headlock.

I was there and I’m not calling it a headlock, but I can imagine that it might have looked like a split second headlock, just by the way that it felt. Not mad or bummed about it.

doughnuts + beer = bad

ya, you were there alright doug i thought my shoulder connected with the back of yours.

I thought your arm was around my neck but whateves

in y’all’s dreams ben. somehow i can’t imagine madison even making it out of the group stage…

zinger! from le jackal.

he said group stage!

beer for you guys… donuts for doug and myself

as much as my city and myself love bike polo, and can’t get enough of it, the CMWC’s are a big enough event in itself. To combine the CMWC’s with a polo tournament, which is also a big event now (people will travel to just about anywhere for a polo tournament), was a recipy for disgruntled people. Hopefully, the two won’t be combined into a single event, ever again. I personnaly thought the polo tournament went well (other than some differences in playing styles). But on the flip side, people who paid $100 bones to race and play polo, we’re told that they would not have to worry about events overlaping. Many people I know of, were left scrambling to look for subs so they could go race.

As far as what should be done (about rules and penalties and etiquet), why doesn’t the host city decide on what they want. If they want to have refs, so be it. Just let players know in advance of a tournament, what the rules are. Looking forward to seeing all you lesbians in august.

b.g. p.s.:awesome pics Doug

Wow! Two days away from the computer and a destroyed shoulder later and look at the dialog i’ve been missing.

I guess I better state my position on things now.
First, Pieter is a fucking rockstar for helping out in the pinch I got into and does not need to answer to shit from anyone. If you have beef then your taking this shit way to seriously. Give me a call and I’ll explain just how trivial your shit really is.
I’ll be the first to appologize to anyone for the mismanagement taking place in Toronto. That’s on me. Some bad shit went down and I had to do it all on the fly. With nada from the heads at CMWC. Due to some bullshit on there end there was a complete abandonment. Pieter offered to help as did many other people which allowed me to get the facility part done just in time. You have no idea what I went through. Thanks to everyone that helped. I love you all. I don’t have much in the way of good things to say so that’s all I’m going to say about that.

Bush league play. Ha ha! Everyones favorite!
As I am typing this I am coming to terms with the possibility that I wont be able to play in the NSPI because I went down hard on Tuesday and wrecked my shoulder. With the doctors telling me 6 weeks before I’ll have full mobility. To read some of this is dissapointing. Injuries are going to happen in our game no doubt. The goal is to keep them to a minimum. So yes Ben I’ll call you out and tell you your style of play does seem reckless at times and I am afraid your going to hurt yourself. And yes Doug you do hit with the intensity of a NHL player. And Angelo does have pointy elbows. And Jason was drunk at the ESPI. And Alexis has a shot that will crush your throat. Just to name a few of the hazzards. So I’m thinking if I can hurt myself to the extent I did with no one else in the play. How hard can it be to break your neck when doing one of those spectacular over the bars one foot on the bike type joints to face first into the fence. And yes I did say spectacular. Or the getting hit at high speed with an arbitrary t-bone resulting with the skull impacting on the concrete while we are not wearing helmets. We did learn that bars need to be pluged a bit too late don’t you think? I’m not sure what to do about rules and enforcement. Nor am I convinced there needs to be anything more than a better clarity of the rules that exist. But maybe a time out for the “children who don’t play well with others” has to happen.
Wear the tap out cone on your head and go trackstand in the corner!

there are teams madison hasn’t developed a rivalry against?

“I get told, jokingly, all the time, “There’s no sorry in Polo,” which I take to mean that I shouldn’t have committed something to be sorry for, not that I shouldn’t apologize.”

cupcake, if you came to east van and heard that, we would mean “there’s no sorry in polo, because stuff happens and you don’t ever have to be sorry for being on the court unless you’re a jerk.” people say sorry for missing the ball all the time and we call them out on it. we all miss, we all have a bump we didn’t mean– there’s nothing there to apologise for is what we are saying out here anyway.

i sorry you guys cant dribble