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Piste Variations?

Posted by: Jeffrey Widen ( ) at 2006-01-27 13:49:08
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We have a number of clubs in Michigan (USA) and quite a few varied playing surfaces: sand, gravel, hard-packed dirt, bumpy-rutted-dirt.

Playing and practicing on all of these surfaces really will imporve your petanque skills especially when encountering a completely different court surface during a tournament.

Plus, with variations of surfaces, an additional factor of game play is introduced to the sport.

You might, just to be ready for anything, wish to create different surfaces at your club's courts. Have looser gravel and/or bumpy terrain on one piste, and perhaps the adjoining one can be flat, and then the next one over is perhaps more sand.

When my friends and I traveled down to Miami Beach to play onthe beach, we encountered a playing surface quite alien to our skills, and it took a few games to "get acquainted" with them.

This thread:

Piste Variations? Don Nairn 2006-01-22 23:34:34

Piste Variations? Jeff Fox 2006-01-23 12:39:08

Piste Variations? Ray Ager 2006-01-24 05:32:12

Piste Variations? Don Nairn 2006-01-24 20:52:46

Piste Variations? Jeffrey Widen 2006-01-27 13:49:08

Piste Variations? Don Nairn 2006-01-29 19:43:30

Piste Variations? Ray Ager 2006-01-30 15:58:20

Piste Variations? Don Nairn 2006-01-30 21:07:53

Piste Variations? Ray Ager 2006-02-01 13:50:45



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