The seven deadly sins of Petanque - The seventh sin:
- “Shall we play?” asks the sinner.
- “No, let’s practise!” says the winner.
Of course, most petanque players enjoy “having a game”. The danger is that you never practise and develop your game, remaining at a plateau. This is a real danger if you only ever play with the same group of players and always on the same terrain.
Practising the basics, rolling, half-lob, high-lob, aiming for the landing spot, shooting boules, are important to help develop consistency in your play and to become an all round player, capable of pointing or shooting as the game requires.
You can use “social” games to practise, ideally in consultation with your team-mates. If you mainly point, practise shooting instead. If you mainly play rolling shots, play lobbing shots instead. If you usually play short ends, play long ends instead, etc.
However, games won’t always give the opportunity to practise all the different shots. Sometimes it’s a good idea to spend 20 minutes practising one type of shot, e.g. playing between 2 blocking boules, or spinning around an obstacle, shooting a back boule, etc.
There are lots of different Skills & Drills that you can use to provide a fun and varied practise programme. It doesn’t have to be deadly dull!
Why not devise a set of Club Standards for pointing and shooting and award Gold, Silver & Bronze medals to players who meet the targets. It’s fun to have a Best Player award and a Most Improved Player. Best Newcomer and similar categories offer everybody the chance to succeed.
If you try to find your favourite club or petanque website in our links-calogue hotboule and it is not there it is because we have cleaned up a bit
Finally some petanque-product news have arrived. It is not often new things appear, boules are quite simple items, and the differences are subtle mostly. But this time it is a completely new product
It is 7h30 I have slept only 4 hours and I am one of them. My team number is 207 and we are playing against V.Chavinat game 1581. I go to the games Office, get my playing pack (3 bags, 3 t-shirts , 3 bobs/soft sun hats, 3 chifonettes) and my playing card on which we will have to enter the score at the end of the first round and return it to the same office.
We just got word of a new petanque-game, for all of those of you with a PC. It's called "petank party", and looks quite unique...
We have integrated petanque.org with yet another newcomer to the web, this time it is youtube. So please give us your ideas!
Links are being cleaned outNew petanque-product hits the webGérald at Mondial La Marseillaise a Petanque 2008-08-04Crazy petanque game soon availableYoutube joins petanque.orgLyon library - story on Boule lyonnaisePetanque.org integrates with flickrPetanque.org is 10 years old! Illegal Petanque ExposedA Petanque calendar for 2008
quintais (7 )Removing an illegally played ball (7 )Visiting France (1 )Team Turns (3 )english speaking petanque player marseille (4 )English speaker in Marseille (1 )International compation surface (1 )wc´s (2 )Bouchon Tossing Techniques (1 )technique (12 )Cheating? (2 )2009 the world game competition arena (1 )No boules for playing games (4 )anyone made a surface? (2 )new terrain? (5 )
