Waterpolo in Oulu (or near)

gfunho · Post by **gfunho** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 7:46 pm

I'm living in oulu and I'am wondering if there is the posibility of playing waterpolo in Oulu (or any place near it).

Do anyone know if some of the local swimming clubs have Waterpolo division?

It will be nice to take place in competitions but just training would be enough.

I really miss it a lot....

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Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 8:44 pm

Magic word is I think is vesipallo? Theres 3 swim clubs in Oulu, but they didn't advertise it too much. You should contact them and ask:
http://www.ous.fi
http://www.mediaso.com/oulun_uimarit/sivu/fi/etusivu/
http://www.oulunlohet.fi/

gfunho · Post by **gfunho** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:08 pm

I've tried that before, but nobody seems to answer me. Maybe the antispam filter block it (hehehe).

I think I have to go straight to raksila Swimming pool and try to find one of these clubs.

Thanks for your answer anyway

BR,

Miguel

Ian · Post by **Ian** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:24 am

I swim with Oulun Lohet Masters team, and there has been talk of getting a water polo team together, but nothing has come of it yet.

But if you're interested, we train at Raksila on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8pm.

Contact details can be found on Oulun Lohet website that Hank posted.

gfunho · Post by **gfunho** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:09 pm

Hellow again.

Did you finally did something about this team? If not....any chance of making it next year?

Best Regards

mota12 · Post by **mota12** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 5:33 pm

hi everybody.

gfunho, did you find the club?? because next Academic year i will go to Oulu and i want to play waterpolo too.

gfunho · Post by **gfunho** » Tue May 01, 2007 9:20 pm

Not exactly.

I mean, Oulun Lohet club told me that they wanted to have a shift in one of the pools to play waterpolo but nothing came at the end.

I now also know a former player of the also former waterpolo team in Oulu. I will also contact him for next season and try to arrange something.

Let's be in touch.

My instant msg account is: gatafunho AT msn DOT com

Send me an email or add me if you want

pahakarhuz · Post by **pahakarhuz** » Fri May 04, 2007 2:02 pm

Waterpolo, hell yeah! The problem is that we have only five teams in Finland, as far as I know. Two in Helsinki, one in Turku, Jyväskylä and Eura.

Waterpolo has traditionally been the sport for retired swimmers in. Thats why it's not so respected here. The other reason is crappy pr. I played waterpolo for two years in Turun Uimarit and I'm going to start playing again some day.

gfunho · Post by **gfunho** » Sun May 27, 2007 1:12 pm

Yes, that´s it. It´s understandable that organizing a competition in Finland is also not so easy, but I was hoping that at least in every big town would be some swimming clubs with some waterpolo shifts just to play for fun.

I say that because once you now how to play, waterpolo is really funny and I´m sure that many "not so good swimmers" (I mean the ones that are not winning every competition), would like to play it a lot.

I don´t want to be a retired player beeing 26 but the closer team to Oulu is 400km away!!!!!

gfunho · Post by **gfunho** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 1:29 pm

I was wondering if there is some news about this topic. Is it possible to play this year somewhere?

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