Waterpolo

[Rob drowning some innocent child]

So waterpolo has filled a large portion of our lives, with Chris and James both playing. Now Chris has polo practice twice a week for an hour and half each time, then there is still a match as well. Anyways the parents set a challenge to the boys that we would play them . . .

[parents in flotation devices]

Well some of our parents had armbands and lifejackets on and other nothing. As backup to the parents team, we invited some South African players to join us, and it took the U15 team about 20minutes before they realised there really were no rules and suddenly everyone was having loads of fun.

The boys worked together as a team really well, one of them drowned the goalie, whilst the other took a shot at goals.

Rob and James represented the Muller family in the games (I was behind the video camera). James was fine as he trains twice a week, but Rob said that he was shattered and said in fact he was more tired after an hour of polo than he was when he rode the Argus Cycle Tour - it took him 4 days to recover - he said he felt like an 80year old and now has a new found respect for the boys and how fit they are.

Needless to say, Muller improvised and hung onto the side of the pool and the goals and only came into play when the ball was in front of him or their was some poor little 15 year old kids in front of him that had the ball [ not for long as Rob would then climb on top of him to get him to release the ball ]

It was a great evening and if you want to see some of the videos, follow these links to youtube. In the one, Alice had so many flotation devices on she could not move fast enough to chase the ball into goals . . .

The other one the parents tried to score a goal, it looks so easy from the side of the pool, but as you can see from the lack of power behind the shot - it clearly isn't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUG4htiCHU0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IavpJIHFZU