NEWS & EVENTS

Elephant Polo

Elephant polo is a variant of polo played whilst riding elephants. It is played in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Equipment consists of a standard polo ball and six to nine foot cane (similar to bamboo) sticks with a polo mallet head on the end. The pitch is three-quarters of the length of a standard polo pitch, due to the slower speed of the elephants. Two people ride each elephant; the elephants are steered by mahouts, while the player tells the mahout which way to go and hits the ball.

Polo

“The King of Games is the Game of Kings” ...majestic, noble, proud, magical, powerful, the embodiment of grace and strength, are just a few ways Polo can be described.
Polo is a dynamic equestrian sport which has been played for centuries throughout Asia and the Middle East. Though the game finds its origin in India, The British re-introduced the sport to the world around.
Polo was played in earlier time by kings, courtiers and cavalrymen. Warriors played polo because it kept them and their horses fit and ready for battle. Horses are selected for their speed, agility, and obedience. It would be interesting to know that a good polo pony is capable of stopping on a dime.

Gocchi Kushti Event

Rissala organises sporting events to hunt for new talent encourage comradiery, in its endevour to do so it has forever associated itself with the sport of kushti (wrestling). India as a nation has represented and won laurels in this traditional sport in the Asian Games and The Olympic Games, with the latest medal haul belonging to wrestlers of Haryana.

Free Eye Camp

Rissala has endeveroured to make this world a better place, and has gone to its grass roots inorder to do so, it now organises a annual eye camp in its native village so as to look after its own.