what are the Health benefits of plAying Manipuri polo
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The Manipuri Polo is played with seven players (in each side) who mount and ride ponies, which are usually 4/5 feet in height.Each player is fitted with Polo-stick made of bamboo root. The mounted player gallop after the ball to hit it straight into the goal. Extremely masculine and vigour-taxing, the exhilarating game is now played in two styles –the pana or original Manipur style and the international style and the international style i.e. Polo. It is heart- cheering to see Manipuri players in their sixties and even seventies riding ponies at full gallop playing Sagol Kangjei (polo) with gusto. The ponies are also decorated fully with various guards of protecting the eyes, forehead, flanks etc.
Britishers may have introduced polo to the world, but Manipur claims they taught them the game. The sport died out during the communist era, but is now catching up again. A look at the space it gets in the state's cultural calendar.
Updated: Dec 21, 2014, 14:39 IST
By Furquan Ameen Siddiqui , Hindustan Times
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The Mapal Kangjeibung, one of the oldest polo grounds of the world, in the heart of Imphal, Manipur, looked unusually crowded for a polo match. The stadium was almost packed. Curious faces peered through the fences separating the main road and the grounds. Here was a crowd clearly interested in a game which hardly attracts visitors in north India. The 8th Manipur International Polo festival had begun well.
"Everyone here knows polo," says Salam Girimohan Singh, a national champion in tent pegging, who was to be my guide for the duration of the tournament. "Nowhere in the country will you find a crowd that'll cheer when you strike well and sigh with you when you miss a goal." Girimohan was true to his word. Standing in the dug-out of the United States team, he cheered for the US polo players playing against the Indian side. I asked him why. Pointing towards a magnificent white Manipuri pony ridden by one of the US players, he says: "That's my pony, Lamdaba! He won the best pony award in the last tournament."
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