you really sound like most of us! Only we were looking for men! I wish you the best.
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Scheduled my first polo lesson on Sunday!
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Have fun!
My one piece of advice would be to do some stretches to loosen up your shoulders before you start. Arm windmills both directions, etc.
Polo uses muscles you didn’t even know you had. Lol.
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I hope you have a blast @centaursam, please let us know how you get on!
I’m lowkey a fitness nut and polo found muscles in my hand and forearm that I didn’t know existed. Apparently my strategy of keeping a death grip on the mallet was not actually correct…
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Please report back afterwards and have fun!! 
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Best of luck on the polo lessons! In her youth, my mom helped work the polo ponies at the local riding academy, and she really enjoyed it. (Also, hope all the rest turns out well for you. You sound like a great guy.)
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Thank you all for the replies!
My first polo lesson was great and much harder than I anticipated. Interestingly, the hardest part isn’t the riding, it’s the proper body positioning and the mechanics of hitting the ball.
The people are great and are quite the eclectic group, definitely different than the hunter/jumper and dressage world.
I think I’m the most experienced rider out of the people I met but that clearly doesn’t equate to being a good polo player. You need both riding skills and ball skills.
I’m going to keep at it. It’s far cheaper than what I was going to do with jumping and I can work my way up to being on a team and eventually competing in tournaments around SoCal which is awesome.
I’m still going to do my jump lesson and dressage lessons and possibly find a feed lease on a good horse that I can use to gradually make progress in those disciplines.
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keep posting so we can follow you along!
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When I used to play polo at a very low level with a fun group many years ago, we were pretty evenly split between the people who could ride, but not hit the ball very well, and the people who could hardly steer, but could really smack the ball if they happened to get near it. Lol.
Everybody improved and had tons of fun in the process. 
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Polo was a little too rough and tumble for me when I tried it many years ago. But the bigger problem was that I am a lefty and was not allowed to play lefty!
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