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08/02/2011
28/11/2010
Cosmic Winter League 10/11 Fixture 3
We played our 3rd league fixture today down Newington vs newbie team JAH.
Ray was the ref and kept scores with his little helpers....
-Mat
14/11/2010
LDNBFF/KRH/KNSTNZ POLO
Here's a short edit by Rupert of the London BFF as well as footage from his recent trip to Karlsruhe and Konstanz....mixed to two good sound tracks.
LDNBFF/KRH/KNSTNZ POLO from Snoopert on Vimeo.
Looks like fun times were had.
Cosmic needs to get back on the road.
-Mat
26/10/2010
PoloMotion, Utrecht, October 23/24 2010
PoloMotion was part of the BikeMotion Benelux Expo which ran for 3 days over this last weekend. 32 teams competed on a slick indoor court, though the surface was nowhere near as slippery as last February's Greif Masters Court.
Format was the Karlruhe Wheel, with teams playing 6 qualifiers each and the top 8 going through to knock-out finals. I formed a team with Bianca and Jamal, we named ourselves Bride of Franklinstein, and we had a heck of a lot of fun. We won all 6 qualifier games, finishing 3rd in the rankings for the finals. We then demolished Berlin's Rakete in 4 minutes, before succumbing to Karlsruhe's Shark Attack in a tense 4-3 semi-final.
Bambule took the trophy, which was definitely a deserved win. Sharks came second and we tied for 3rd with Polosynthese.
All in all an awesome weekend of polo. Lots of friendly faces, great games and plenty of laughs. As a team, we'd never previously played together, but this won't be our last outing. We might need to change the team name next time though. Dutch Cosmic anyone?!
19/10/2010
COSMICV2...
COSMICV2 = the darker side of polo....welcome all the crazies, cross dressers and child haters!
-Mat
09/10/2010
07/10/2010
A Cosmic Wedding
On Tuesday 5th October in Amsterdam...a cosmic tandem of unity was united between Cosmic Tom and Cosmic B....yay! Congrats guys....we're so happy for you both!!!
Here's to cosmic love and happiness! xxx
Oh...and guys...now you're a Mr and Mrs, you've got to get one of these...
Then not before long...maybe one of these...
-Mat
03/10/2010
The London BFF 14th - 17th Oct
Don't forget during 14th - 17th October the Bicycle Film Festival roles into London town.
Celebrating 10 years of the festival...the film line up is looking awesome. From the usual unique mini shorts to exclusive docu's, such as the awesome film all about BMX legend Matt Hoffman as well as an anniversary showing of ET...the film which made every kid want a Kuwahara BMX!
Our good friend Brendan Mcnamee of BAD Polo and Blunt Films, has two films being shown this year in the Urban Bike Shorts collection.
One is ''12 Miles of Style' a film about the now famous Tweed run which takes place in London every year.
The other is a creative edit called 'We've got it on tape' and features Bike Polo from recent tournies as well as some more unique footage - watch carefully and you might see the beautiful silhouettes of Toddy and I.
To view the full film listing and buy tickets check here
In addition to the BFF there's the annual BFF Bike Polo Tourney, which this year will be on Sunday 17th at Newington Gardens Court.
The format for this years tourney is a bit different, as the focus is more on games being 'experimental'. With this, a few standard Bike Polo rules have been changed and no-one can play with their usual team or with players they've played with before. As a result...cosmic have split to form the following experimental super teams...
Toddy, Gabes (Apples), Aidan (BAD).
Mat, Em (Apples), Greg (MGM Paris).
The format has been controversial to Bike Polo purest...but regardless I'm sure it's gonna to be a fun day....so get down and support!
-Mat
30/09/2010
WHBPC 2010 Cosmic vs Team Grizzly
A whole lot of cosmic pressure....5 banging goals and one hell of a post whacker...
-Mat
25/09/2010
COUNT THAT!
Thanks to an epic performance by Rory, East Van come from 4-0 down to take the win over Seattle's Smile in the East Van Crown.
Rory MVP!
Amazing Bike Polo Final Game from brawcast on Vimeo.
-Mat
19/09/2010
Resist Bike Parts Co.
Resist is a new bike parts co. from the dudes behind Volume BMX.
Basically, the feeling was that Volume had always meant to be a 100% BMX focused...but in recent years, what with the success of the Cutter and Thrasher 700c frames, Volume increasingly had eyes on other areas of the bike market. As a result, the original vision behind the Volume brand had slipped away a bit. So, the launch of Resist now means there is a new platform to release all sorts of nonBMX bits n pieces...which leaves Volume to go back to following it's true roots in BMX - awesome plan I think.
So fingers x'd we might start seeing some Bike Polo parts from Resist in the near future.
Watch this Resist space.
-Mat
Beautiful BMX Edit
The filming in this short BMX edit is stunning...you gotta love any thing shot in slow mo...
7D 1000 fps from Oton Bačar on Vimeo.
-Mat
Pac Bike Polo Top Tube Pad - Review
The good guys at BLB have given us each a custom made top tube pad which has be specifically designed to hold mallets and produced by Canadian bike bag brand PAC.
I was so in need of this item because using cut inner tubes as mallet straps just wasn't fitting the image + now my cable and (rusty) top tube get's a bit of protection!
Having now used the pad for a few weeks I can honestly say the design is spot on for function. The design itself is simple...the pad is of a tough material construction with full length velcro closure. Then to strap the mallets on (fits two comfortably), two lengths of velcro at either end of the pad are used, which wrap around the mallet shaft holding firmly in place - simple, but effective.
My pad is in solid black (an assortment of colours are available) with a little PAC tag stitched on one side. Overall, the design is very clean and does it's job perfect. The only downside is I can no longer see the 'eye of cosmic' sticker which is stuck on the top tube, thus I can't look at it to gain cosmic strength. I'm sure the eye will burn through the pad eventually, but perhaps a cosmic x pac colour way is needed?
Anyway....the standard PAC Bike Polo top tube pad is def worth a purchase.
-Mat
18/09/2010
17/09/2010
Shop14 London Open in Pictures by Agata
Here's a few great pictures from the London Open taken by the wonderful Agata...
Toddy sinking the pool balls by just the power of cosmic vision....
A missed cosmic face...
The whole London Open players and supporters...
Shop14 London Open Best Bits Video
Here's a really awesome best bits video of the London Open...nice to see me rocket one past L'Equipe at 2,40sec in....
London Open 2010 Highlights from Jon Marshall on Vimeo.
This is exactly why I play and love polo...great fun times!
Thanks Jono and Polo.
I miss the cosmic summer of 2010!
-Mat
16/09/2010
WHBPC 2010 Cosmic vs The Odds
Just found this nice edit of our first game on the double elim day us vs The Odd's, who were the North American Champs...tough draw...and hell, we nearly, I mean should have had them.
With 1.30min left on the clock and after us going 3-2 up from Toddy's wheely take to goal, I should have ended the game due to a clear shot on goal...but I was going super fast on the break and could feel the dude chasing me hard. With the pressure there, I shot late only to hit the post! The good damn post! 9 times out of 10 I would have got that in...but it wasn't to be. I left the shot so late, I didn't even have the space to turn away from goal, so ended up crashing into it. Then Chris from The Odds picked up the loose ball went on the attack and to his credit scored a great goal to suddenly make it 3-3 with less than a min left. I went from hero to zero - sucked hard!
Then The Odds applied ridiculous physical pressure...body checks, charges, hassles on the keeper, but it paid off and they got the winner with 8 secs to go!
Painful result.
whbpc2010 cosmic 1 from D-TOX on Vimeo.
After that game, we knocked Malice out (sorry) and with it ended one of the longest team relationship in London Polo history (team BAD are still the only original team together from the early London day)...
MALICE RIP!
Just found this one too...the moment when El Club knocked out The Odds...Euro sweetness!
Watch carefully at 18 sec in when Lucas comes up against Chris with a legal shoulder to shoulder, only for Chris to push him off with his hand. He was good at doing that kinda stuff...he was all over me in our game. But I still he's fast with skills and rides a FBM, so I'll allow it....just!
-Mat
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