The International Beach Polo Association has been created to organize current beach polo events and aid in the development of future venues and to create a roadmap for the organization, development and promotion of the game. Beach polo was first played in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The following year the game took to the beaches of Miami and continued to grow in popularity, showing up in Belgium, England, Wales, Chile, Uruguay and a host of other countries. The growing number of worldwide beach polo events have aided in exposing the sport of polo to a new audience in a fun and exciting fashion. Beach polo is played in an area about one-tenth the size of the field game, with varying surfaces of sand. Because of the reduction in playing area, the beach polo events are spectator friendly. The recommended playing area is one hundred yards long and fifty yards wide, and is enclosed by sideboards measuring between four-and-a-half and five feet in eight, designed to keep the four-and-a-half inch leather ball in play. A growing new audience has the ability to combine a day at polo with a day on some of the most beautiful beaches in the world.

The International Beach Polo Association will serve as the organizational and active agent for the game. The Association will work to advise, guide and encourage the advancement of this great equestrian sport. It is the expressed intent of the International Beach Polo Association to promote and develop the beach polo game. The Association will work to create and organize additional tournaments and events, and actively encourage the development of new venues, and sanction key locations. www.internationalbeachpoloassociation.com