Polocrosse Holland Season 2007

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Mar 162009
 

2007 Polocrosse season Holland – keeping the sticks up!

Polocrosse is still an unknown sport in Holland. “Polocrosse Holland” exists now for about 3 years and has about 15 players spread over Holland. So our season 2007 consisted of promoting the sport by giving demonstrations at horse events.

With eastern we opened the season with a trainings weekend. We needed to practice very hard before we went to Australia World Cup. About 10 people came with their horses and the weekend consisted of exercises and chukka’s. It was a great weekend with a lot of attention of the local media. Continue reading »

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2008 Polocrosse season Holland

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Mar 162009
 

In 2008 de number of members doubled, caused by decreasing the contribution and a number of polo players who were getting interested in the sport. Polocrosse is played in 4 different regions in Holland; South-west, Middle, East and North.

The board of the dutch polocrosse association decided to do things different to promote the sport. In the years before we have done 100 of demo’s and clinics; everybody liked the sport, but was not keen enough to become a member. That is why we decided to organize 3 tournaments on the different regions in Holland; to do locale promotion of the sport by inviting local media (newspapers, television) and promote the sport to locale horse riders to participate the tournament. Continue reading »

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Polocrosse Holland – history

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Since 2005 The Dutch Polocrosse Association is official. It started with former South Africans Richard and Martine Griffiths who introduced polocrosse in 2003 at their stable. Everybody was wondering what they were doing with that net-stick-thing and the rubber ball. But after trying to pick a ball up and play a bit, riders got hooked to it and polocrosse was born in the middle of Holland! Through an internet-horse-forum they contacted other people who got enthusiastic for polocrosse and created an internet homepage which proved an important step in developing polocrosse in Holland. Peter Cross from the UK Pennine club found the webpage and invited us to the Pennine tournament in May 2005. From this first sighting of real chukkas, Dutch inspiration grew to develop polocrosse in Holland. At the beginning we didn’t have a field to play at, only an inside arena. Holland is so crowed that the farmers use every part of there land and don’t want that to be destroyed by galloping horses. Continue reading »

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