Get Started with Polo 101

Published by Peter at January 21, 2022

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Learn to play polo in Kuala Lumpur. KL Academy of Polo has a new intake for a POLO 101 course, starting in mid-February 2022. This course is designed to start established riders in polo.

The POLO 101 course would be conducted on KL Academy of Polo’s polo ponies or on member’s own ponies. It is taught by triple SEA Games gold medallist and Level 1 instructor, Peter Abisheganaden (that’s me.) Guest instructors may be invited to teach.

POLO 101 consists of 16 lessons in total, held twice or three times a week, over two months, all conducted at The Selangor Polo Club, in Ampang Hilir, Kuala Lumpur.

Twelve of those lessons are mounted and will include:

Riding for Polo
Contact and Neck Reining
Fitness for Polo
Posting Canter
Riding Off
Stick and Ball

Three lessons will be on “Woody,” the wooden horse, learning the polo strokes.

One classroom lesson will be on the rules of polo, player roles and positioning on the field.

Conditions:

The Classes will be 45 minutes long and shall be run in groups of four to six riders.
TSPC members have priority over non-members.
Riders who are unable to attend a group session will not have a replacement class. This is a fixed 16 lesson schedule.
The prerequisite for this course is that riders must be confident riders, well established in their canter work.
Riders must consult their KL Academy of Polo instructor about their readiness, and be recommended by him to be accepted into a POLO 101 course.
Non-KL Academy of Polo riders must have an assessment to verify their riding skills.
KL Academy of Polo reserves the right to exclude riders whose riding may not yet be up to the required standard.
Riders will be expected to have their own riding equipment, and purchase their own foot and polo mallets.
Riders will be expected to practice hitting on the wooden horse and on foot, in their own time, outside of scheduled POLO 101 lessons.

Fixed Days & Dates

Group riding lessons on Tuesday & Thursday mornings are fixed for 8:00 AM. Hitting lessons on ‘Woody’, the wooden horse will be held on Wednesdays, initially together, and then in arranged time slots.

This course starts Tuesday 15^th January at The Selangor Polo Club.