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Horses can easily suffer from muscle sores or cramps after an intensive game or training. How to deal with those problems after exertion? Here’s the answer. After exertion, it is important to give water with minerals that will
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Keep your polo mallet vertically up and weightless, before each shot, unless it is a half shot.
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Always squeeze the pony with your legs to initiate slowing, accelerating, turning and striking the ball.
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Continually watch your team’s best player to whom you must relate your position in attack and defenc
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Treat every shot as if it was the first shot, using the whole preparation.
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When stopping look behind you, while squeezing legs, before applying light hands, through reins to pony’s mouth.
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Study how to make the ball follow you instead of chasing it all the time.
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During play when a ball is hit past you, and beyond you, and the next shot ( forehand or backhand ) is clearly yours, without being involved in a ‘ride off’, immediately move laterally until you are directly behind
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To hook a stick ‘focus’ on a point 2 inches above the the opponent’s mallet head on the cane. Aim to hit this point with the same spot on your mallet, thereby allowing for 4 inches of error. Repeat
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For every ‘shot’ you make apply 2 Clocks. First the Pony Clock (PC), with ’12 o’clock’ between pony’s ears and ‘6 o’clock’ over pony’s tail. Second the Ball Clock (BC)
