Chukka game

John grew up playing at an oceanfront property at Sandy Bay, west of Montego Bay. Up the hill from Sandy Bay, in the seven-year riverside floodplain, lies Pumpkin Bottom, a rural community where John made many friends as a child, riding horses in the hills, swimming in the saltwater, and fishing with makeshift poles. At one time, the main road traveled a circuitous oceanfront route, and farmers routinely cut across the Sandy Bay property.

John exchanged some of the yams for fish and other fixings, and the children repurposed a huge kerosene can as a pot for a stew. Everyone contributed what they had, and everyone ate out of the same pot. When the river breached its banks in , as it does every seven years, Pumpkin Bottom was destroyed and its community suffered terrible losses.

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A chukka is a period of play during a polo match, and each chukka normally lasts seven minutes. An extra thirty seconds of overtime is permitted at the end of each chukka except the final one of the match. During overtime, if the umpire blows his whistle, if the ball goes out of bounds, or if it hits the sideboards, the chukka ends.

In practice a chukka may last a little more than seven and a half minutes because if a player is awarded a penalty the timer is stopped until they have taken their penalty shot.

A chukka starts and ends with a bell or a hooter being sounded. There are believed to be two origins of the word but both have almost the same meaning. The first is the Hindi word cakkar meaning circle or round. This word seems closest to the American spelling chukker. A round, about, a period, etc. In a standard high-goal game of polo, there are six chukkas. If it is an outdoor or field polo match, the number of chukkas is between 4 and eight.

The game can last more than the set number of rounds if, at the end of the final chukka, the score is tied. As explained, overtime is not permitted in the final chukka even to break the tie. An extra chukka is played on these occasions to decide the winner of the match. This additional chukka is a sudden death round and ends as soon as a goal is scored by either team. The scoring team then wins the match. If neither team scores, then another chukka is played.

This time the goalposts are widened to make scoring easier. In the arena or low-goal polo, there is a three-minute break between each of the chukkas.

The only exception to this is in the middle of the match, where the break extends to 5 minutes. This constitutes half time. Infield polo because it is a longer match and play is faster, the breaks are four minutes, and half-time lasts 10 minutes. The field of play is usually very churned up by the halfway point. It adds an element of fun to the match. During each break the players change to new horses and the teams swap to opposite ends of the field.

Players also use this time to grab a quick drink and possibly change their shirts if they need to.