We all know that to become a skilled petanque player you have to actually practise. Unfortunately just talking about the game ,dringking pastis , red wine , white wine, or indeed anything else , will not improve you game much. But as practising is quite boring we have devised a game out of it.
For 2 players, to practise high-lobs.
Decide who plays first. This player draws a 50cm target circle from 6 - 10m from the throwing circle. There is no jack in this game. Players must lob into the target circle, otherwise the shot does not count and the boule thrown is removed from the game. The idea is to stay close to the target circle.
Players can agree to alternate shots, or "furthest from the circle" plays.
The winner of an end draws a new circle and the game continues.
"Game" can be to any agreed number of points.
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!
Here are some pics from the 2nd Johannesburg Open played at the Boulesdust piste at the Zoo Lake Sports Club in Johannesburg (see Google Pic). There were 10 doublets who played in 2 round robin leagues. The top 2 teams then played in the semi-finals. The final was won by Paul and Howie who beat Gerald and Bridget in a tense final that finished well after 8pm.
We have received word that we have supplied quite a lot of images to a story by the municipal Library in Lyon, France. And the story is worth a read!
Many years ago there was no way of getting your pictures online unless you knew someone with a homepage. Or you mailed them to petanque.org, and we'd put it on the web for you. But nowadays nobody does this thing anymore, there are thousands of ways to get your images online, and our pictures-section is about as dry as the sahara. So we have had to make some changes
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