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Posted by: Dave Lang (
) at 2006-08-13 15:47:11
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My wife and I played bocce for awhile until I “discovered” petanque. We acquired several set of boules. All are either 71mm or 72mm with a weight of 700gm, 710gm and 720gm. One set has a hardness or 140kg/mm2. The others are 120kg/mm2.
I did some experimenting to see if there was any noticeable difference in rebound among the various boules on our normal laying surface which is a hard bocce court at our local park. I tried to shoot at fairly close range so the I could pretty constant hits at various angles and percent of contact.
What I found was that there is little difference between the boules. The hard boule seems to rebound about the same at the softer VMS boule. I suspect that that the most important factor in rebound is probably the skill and technique of the player.
One more thing I noticed. It seems that the stainless (INOX) boules tend to form fewer of those tiny sharp splinters that can cut you then the carbon steel boules. (ouch!)
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