Canoe Polo is the fastest growing competitive canoeing discipline not only in the UK but world-wide. Fabulous to play, and full of spectator interest, Polo combines paddling and ball handling skills within an exciting contact team game where tactical and positional play are a fascinating ingredient of this thoroughly entertaining sport.  

The game requires excellent teamwork and promotes both general canoeing skills as well as a range of other techniques unique to the sport. Two teams, each with five paddlers on the pitch at any one time, compete to score goals in their opponent's net which is suspended 2 metres above the water. The ball can be thrown by hand, or flicked with the paddle. Pitches can be set up in swimming pools or any stretch of flat water.

Polo is a good way of practicing skills for beginners and more advanced paddlers. You will find you end up using all the skills you have spent time learning without noticing as you concentrate on the ball and other players.