[Paddlewise] Kayak Polo

Last Saturday one of the local dive shops sponsored a kayak polo 
contest.  This wasn't a regulation kayak polo game.  I think they called it 
Scrambo Ball rather than Kayak Polo.  What ever you call it, we all had a 
lot of fun.  The original idea was to have two teams of four on the course. 
But it's sad to say the shop didn't have a real large turnout (they 
probably needed to have a longer lead time for advertising the contest).

We got a team together from our dive club and we managed to place first and 
second place.   A couple of other people showed up and we ended up with two 
teams of three.  Since our club had 2/3 of the members of each team, I feel 
justified in saying we came in first and second ;).

We played for about three hours and the game pretty much turned into 
general anarchy after about an hour.  Players switched sides, sat out 
points, and or raced each other around the course.  So to tell the truth, I 
have no idea what the final score was.  And it doesn't much matter.  We had 
a great day of fun playing in the kayaks.

The really good part is that for most of the people that played, it was 
their first time in a kayak and was a great introduction to kayaking. For 
me it was the first time back in a kayak in several months.  I won't let 
that happen again! Anyway we had a great time and we're all planing on 
playing again.

The shop used Ocean Kayaks.  They had Scramblers, Scrambler XTs, and 
Malibus there.  I only paddle the Malibu as the eyelets on the Scrambler 
XTs dug into my leg and made it kind of uncomfortable.

One of the guys put some pictures up on his web site at:
http://gordon.carey.home.att.net/Pictures/2000/SEAS2/SEAS21.htm

and

http://gordon.carey.home.att.net/Pictures/2000/Kayak_Polo/Kayak_Polo1.htm

In the pictures, I'm the follicly challenged (bald) one - if you were 
wondering.

                                                             Luke

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