is there any real difference between polo and water polo, besides the water thing?

OF COURSE!!!

All these people are wrong, wrong, wrong.

Polo is played in two teams of four people.

The players play on horses that are called "polo ponies".

You use a mallet to strike the ball.

There are 6 periods of game, which are each around 7.5 minutes long. Those short periods are called chukka.

Polo is an extremely difficult and very dangerous game.

It is also a very unpredictable game as well because there is no guarantee that the polo ponies will go along with what you want them to do.

Now I've played both varsity-level water polo and polo and compared to polo, water polo is a piece of cake.

Yes, but the horses aren't good at swimming underwater. Hence the absence of the horses in water polo.

Polo is also played on a massive field with dozens of people (and horses).

In polo you use a club to strike the ball

depends on the length of time in between. if it's about 30 minutes and above i would eat something small filled with carbohydrates (small!!). but the best thing i would do is eat alot of carbohydrate packed food before you go to the event. and have enough time for the food to digest. (when u exercise you stomac works slower because the blood flow to the stomac decreases alot) cabohydrate packed food rice (almost pure sugar, that'll help alot though it's not a bad sugar) u won't get a sugar rush and then crash pasta spaghetti and from what i also heard some pros eat orange peals? (football) in between the break. not sure. best bet is rice or pasta. for before the thing about 1:30 to 2 hours before the event.

and the whole horses thing.....