7/28/2023 0 Comments I regress show poniesYour life was fine as it was…and so was your bank account. But you maintain that this isn’t going to be a regular occurrence in your life. Now that you’ve taken more lessons, you can feel polo beginning to grab a hold on your life. The wall of denial begins to come down, brick by brick, you take us up on our private lessons or eight-week polo school because you could be involved in a lot worse things…and this counts as social time and fitness time…doesn’t it? You couldn’t shake it, time passed and you were still thinking about that first time you hit the ball and swung a mallet. So you give us a call at the Toronto Polo School and you decide to just ask the question how does one really learn to play polo…hypothetically that is? You just want to know, to have the information…it’s not like you’re really going to learn to play. You go back to work on Monday and you find yourself thinking about ‘polo, polo, polo’. You’ve done the one-day clinic you cantered a polo pony, you hit the ball, you played a slow scrimmage. Besides…you probably won’t even be able to hit the ball so no danger of it being a long term thing. You don’t anticipate it becoming a big thing in your life but simply a way to pass a Saturday outside in the fresh air with friends. Whatever your reasoning you’ve found yourself signed up for a private lesson or one of our one-day learn to play clinics and you’re telling yourself you only want to try it. So you’ve seen it played live, or on TV, or maybe you just had an urge to be different, to do something different. Stage 1: The ‘I just want to try it’ stage We’ve all rationalized our addiction the same way and to make you feel less alone we at the Toronto Polo School have documented the process so you know what to expect as you slide down that slippery slope of getting hooked on polo. So to all those new players out there, we’ve all been where you are. And when people realize just how easy it is to take lessons, and how not impossible it is to hit the ball…well they find themselves sliding down the slippery slope of a polo addiction because the synergistic combination of horses, adrenaline, teamwork, competition and other factors makes it hard to stop once you’ve started. But the truth is, polo isn’t really like the stereotypes people make up for it, sure, Princes play the sport but regular people do too. They tell themselves things like ‘ I won’t even be able to hit the ball’ to ‘I’m not a Prince so I just won’t fit in with the crowd of players’. So people intentionally come into the sport with low expectations. No one expects it to be quite as easy to learn or something that can be learned in the first place. ![]() ![]() Polo has a way of sneaking up on new players. After all, you could be involved in a lot worse things. Polo is a lot more than a game…and for the right person it can become an addiction in the best sense of the word. And it’s been said that “once you’re in polo, it’s impossible to be out of polo…there are only two chances, either you die or you go bankrupt, but there’s no way you can be out of polo once you are inside, it’s like a virus.” It’s a bit of a dark statement but it’s not far from the truth. Without a doubt, polo is an addictive sport.
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