by Michele Hewitt.
My Dad, 84 year old Raymond Fouquet, is a member of the Los Angeles Petanque Club. After my Mom died last year, he moved in with us. Since he moved away from his friends and weekly petanque match in Los Angeles, we decided to convert our front lawn into a petanque court. Full story
Peter Macfarquhar has just finished making a petanque court in
the United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf. The procedure was basically similar to the courts we have described, with a few specialized adaptations to local conditions.Full story
By Ken Turner
I was on a missions trip in July with the youth from my church. We went to Montreal for a week. In all, there were 25 groups that performed work for the people of Montreal. We volunteered our labor for a week as a way to show God's love to other people.
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When I decided to build my own court, I chose a site that paralleled our sailboat pad in our side yard. I had some obstacles that determined our construction methods and dimensions, which included a septic leech line, a unique stand of oak trees and a 4' slope. I hired Rick Pareno of Landmark Landscapes who is located here in Anderson, CA to do the grading and construction. The dimensions of the court are 40'x14'.Full story
There is something a little 'tongue in cheek' about building a French Boules Piste on the side of a Welsh hillside, but this is exactly what I've done! I bought my house, in the area I was brought up in, in the Autumn of 2001. With a huge renovation task facing me on the house: damp course, re-plastering, wiring and plumbing I decided to get my priorities right and lay a piste!
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A Southern California Boules Court Revisited
David Jacobs
In November, 2002, we completed a Pétanque court at our hillside home in Los Angeles. We had a terraced plane with suitable dimensions: 18 feet wide and 50 feet long. Drainage was excellent so all we had to do was pull up the grass, put down about three inches of crushed gravel, then top it with three inches of decomposed granite (not stone dust, as I had originally reported: I’ve since learned that stone dust is something quite different). We rented a tamper to tamp down the surface and we were ready to play.
At that time we posted our story and pictures on this site. Here’s our update.Full story
Byron Putman discovered petanque some two years ago and fell in love, head over heels. Then decided to analyze every angle of the game, including its development in the USA. He started clubs in Palm Springs, CA and in Lake Oswego, OR. And wrote a book about it, aptly named "Pétanque - The greatest game you never heard of!"
10 shooters, amongst one woman, were present at the finals of the manifestation 1.000 Boules in Nieuwegein (very near to Utrecht in the centre of the country) on Saturday night, the 29th of October 2011. Amongst the players there was also Philippe Quintais, the former French world champion (12 times!) who gave a demonstration at the end of the manifestation, visited by almost 400 spectators. All players had to shoot 100 boules within 10 minutes at a distance of 8 meters.
Devotees of pétanque will now be able to enjoy a glass of pastis before a match again: The World Anti-Doping Agency is to remove alcohol from its list of prohibited substances for competitions.
At Parkhurst Petanque in Johannesburg, we developed a new game called Petanque Pinball.
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