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My first thought was that Segways would be ideal for the nerdiest fun modern-ish recreation of polo. It turns out that it was a thing.

> The Segway polo world championship is the Woz Challenge Cup. It is named after Steve "Woz" Wozniak, cofounder of Apple Inc., and a player of Segway polo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segway_polo

WhirlyBall[1], which is kind of like pelota + basketball in bumper cars, seems like a pretty good bet. There are only a handful of courts left, but I've done a few offsites at the Seattle one, and it's good fun.

The bumper cars are truly weird - they draw power from the conductive floor of the court, and have a one-handed control system that makes you trigger forward/reverse by turning the steering wheel a full rotation...

[1]: https://www.whirlyball.com

There is also unicycle hockey! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicycle_hockey

Makes me want to dust off mine

Nope. The modern version uses motorcycles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoball

>>Motoball is played in a 5v5 format. There are four players on motorcycles, and one on their feet as the goalkeeper.

There's also e-wheel polo

I for one wish for mobile crane joust.

Mad Max 1910

incredible indeed!

These days I have to check the upload date to see if I'm being duped. At 8 years ago this one passes!

Cool. How do they stop?

This is absolutely incredible!

I clicked the first link, expecting something akin to cycleball [0], and was rather surprised by the fact that it was so different from that.

We really should have an ocho channel for sports like this (of course /r/theocho exists, but it's not the same).

0: https://youtu.be/1UdoumWFWz8