Auto Polo

esperent•about 2 hours ago

This photo is incredible

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Auto_pol...

jshmrsn•about 1 hour ago

Mad Max 1910

fwgijcqywqeo•about 2 hours ago

incredible indeed!

cheschire•about 1 hour ago

I’m sure many of us are reminded immediately of the old Top Gear auto football matches:

https://youtu.be/SIeu7_-iwdw

arlobish•about 3 hours ago

"The official inventor of auto polo...devised the sport as a publicity stunt in 1911 to sell Model T cars."

Amazing to see how little has changed in 100 years when it comes to competing for attention

TomMasz•about 3 hours ago

Unsurprisingly, it died out "mostly due to the high cost of replacing vehicles". Was it the inspiration for demolition derbies?

msuniverse2026•about 2 hours ago

Australian Motorcycle Chariot Race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1avID4bJ3pw

Oarch•about 2 hours ago

These days I have to check the upload date to see if I'm being duped. At 8 years ago this one passes!

rmoriz•about 1 hour ago

Bike Polo is still alive https://youtu.be/CBZgC7u6ji8 and for example https://youtu.be/PxMms5Yh_gI

merelysounds•about 3 hours ago

I guess the modern day equivalent (technology that’s relatively new, unsafe and unregulated) would be electric scooter polo? I found no sign of a sport like this though.

I think kick scooter polo exists. And bike polo[1] is well known.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcourt_Bike_Polo

consumer451•about 3 hours ago

My first thought was that Segways would be ideal for the nerdiest fun modern-ish recreation of polo. It turns out that it was a thing.

> The Segway polo world championship is the Woz Challenge Cup. It is named after Steve "Woz" Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Inc., and a player of Segway polo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway_polo

swiftcoder•about 3 hours ago

WhirlyBall[1], which is kind of like pelota + basketball in bumper cars, seems like a pretty good bet. There are only a handful of courts left, but I've done a few offsites at the Seattle one, and it's good fun.

The bumper cars are truly weird - they draw power from the conductive floor of the court, and have a one-handed control system that makes you trigger forward/reverse by turning the steering wheel a full rotation...

[1]: https://www.whirlyball.com

dgellow•about 3 hours ago

There is also unicycle hockey! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicycle_hockey

Makes me want to dust off mine

vhcr•about 3 hours ago

There's also e-wheel polo

lstodd•about 3 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoball

sandworm101•about 3 hours ago

Nope. The modern version uses motorcycles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoball

>>Motoball is played in a 5v5 format. There are four players on motorcycles, and one on their feet as the goalkeeper.

tigerlily•about 1 hour ago

I for one wish for mobile crane joust.

xg15•about 1 hour ago

> though deaths due to auto polo were rare.

Oh well, then...

haunter•about 2 hours ago

Was? Not with this attitude!

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