WHILE VISITING PARIS DURING THE WINTER I HOOKED UP WITH SIMON GAMOK AND THE GUYS FROM ‘LA BICYCLETA’ SHOP. THIS TIME NOT FOR A FGFS SESSION BUT FOR BIKE POLO. BIKE POLO IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE POPULAR AROUND THE WORLD AND THE PARIS, CREWS ARE COMPLETELY CRAZY ABOUT IT! APART OF SEEING VETERANS OF THIS SPORT LIKE MARK FROM STEEL MAGAZINE OR YORGO, ONE OF THE YOUNG PLAYERS GOT MY ATTENTION WITH HIS WILD STYLE. ALEX STARTED TO PLAY ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO. READ HERE WHAT HE HAS TO SAY ABOUT THE PARIS BIKE POLO SCENE:
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My name is Alex, i’m 17 years old and i play bike polo. I started bike polo 2 years ago when i saw some guys playing next to my house. Bike polo is so addictive and even more when you live 5 minutes from the court ! I’ve been playing a lot of tournaments for the past 2 years but the only one i’m really proud to have done is the WHBPC 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland, that I played with the Goal Diggers and it was really the perfect spot! The Parisian scene has a lot of great players, like the world champs Lefty Will and Greg, we also have two amazing courts, a real handball/hockey court for the weeks and the famouse Invalides court wich give us a great visibility, this weekend court is also perfect to play some cool polo, as we say in Paris, “Polo plaisir !”. This year i’m proud to play with two of the greatest players in the bike polo scene, Hugo from the famous “Dans ta gueule puceau” team and the young (but older than myself ) UK player Luca from the “Dead rappers”, MVP of the WHBPC 2012! We are planning a lot of tournaments but we only have two tournaments in mind, the EHBPC and WHBPC 2013, we hope to be at least in the top 10 of both!
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