The stick with which the ball is hit- more commonly the mallet.
Its all about the length and the weight according to your strength, that you choose your polo stick, well know the mallet,And maybe, maybe if you remember this,
Polo will be your every time bliss
All forms of competition requiring demanding and specialized skills from both, the horse and the rider, resulted in the systematic development of special polo equipment which is the polo mallet. They say if in anyways you are related to a polo player, then the first thing you give in your kid’s hand is a polo mallet. A walking stick to be able to train on foot. It is believed that If a polo stick breaks during a game it is a sign of inefficiency.
The polo stick was an important motif in Islamic heraldry and the Jukandar Polo Master was a popular official in the Caliphs' entourage. The polo stick appears on Chinese royal coats of arms and the game was especially a part of court life in Chinese culture. Polo mallets were of shapes which would appear curious to the current players. In ancient Iran, different from its present-day L-shaped structure, they had heads in the shape of an arc or even straight with equal length on both sides of the shaft. In Japan and in Byzantium, for example, the sticks carried racquet rather than mallet heads. And as mallet technique evolved from dribbling the ball while leaning over the pony’s neck to full swings taken at speed, the advantages to well-mounted players became clear.
The mallets have reinvented and re-established with greater efficiency over years. The new version of the mallet has its own history. Soft-faced polo mallets have a long history. Boxwood and leather varieties were used by silversmiths in the distant past. However, today’s soft polo mallets, which may have heads of rubber, coiled rawhide, or plastic usually mounted on handles of hickory, have much wider applications in the polo.
I imagine that the two forms of polo, the orderly game, and the exercise and dynamism of the skill in horsemanship and in the playfulness of the stick, existed side by side for some time and that both account to a perfect polo game and a win situation. The backbone of the game undoubtedly remains the horse and the player but the second serve goes to the mallet. The hammerhead tool whose sole purpose is to get your ball in the goal. While getting yourself a mallet what are the considerations you keep on priority? What according to you is a perfect mallet?
