Polo is known as an elite sport, and Arena Polo is one of the most recent variations that have been developed.
Arena Polo was born in 1935, also called Indoor Polo, as a result of the visionary minds behind the foundation of the Argentine Polo Association. It arises as a need to continue playing matches, without weather being an impediment.
Arena Polo, unlike classic Polo, is about control and strategy, and not about speed, because being a smaller size field, the players don’t cover so much ground, but they do have to think faster.
Although we don’t talk about speed in Arena Polo, we talk about quickness and matches full of intensity and adrenaline. The matches are divided into four chukkers of 7 ½ minutes with intervals of 3 or 4 minutes, and after the second chukker, intervals of longer duration.
Among the advantages offered are enjoying a match all year round, even when it is winter or raining, improving the polo player’s skills, and the reduction of investment for the field owners and polo players, since sand fields do not require the same maintenance as a classic grass field and, at the same time, players use less horses per match, being only two horses per player the necessary ones.
In Argentina, Argentina Polo Day is the only polo club with a professional sand polo field, which also, for those polo players who can only practice at night, has a professional lighting system, being unique in Latin America.
Arena Polo is really a great option for all polo players of different levels, to improve their concentration and agility.
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