Petanque



Petanque America Open - Amelia Island - 14 & 15 November 2009





We expect teams from all over the USA and Canada but also hope for teams from overseas. Remember in 2005 it was a French team, Jean-Pierre & Michel, who won.Full story

SWINE FLU WARNING!!

We want to avoid all rumors at once. Even if the small ball is called "the pig", "le cochonette" - IT IS NOT A SURCE FOR SWINE FLU!

So just keep playing! Just don't play as pigs, it might ruin the game...

BBC on petanque

Finally the BBC has folded: Petanque is the main story on their web page today!Full story

Play petanque with a kiwi and help raise money!

Straight from the press release:
Individuals and companies from as far away as Hertfordshire, UK and companies & individuals from all over the North Island of New Zealand are supporting an initiative to raise money for - and increase awareness of - the Auckland Down Syndrome Association (ADSA) and The New Zealand Down Syndrome Association (NZDSA).Full story

Watch those holes

Here we have an example of where not to play... from our ever-growing youtube-section.Full story

Womens World Championship in Samsun




The Scottish petanque-federation went to Samsun for the Womens world championship, and has sendt us a report from the event.Full story

Links are being cleaned out

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 bitFull story

New petanque-product hits the web




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 productFull story




Gérald at Mondial La Marseillaise a Petanque 2008-08-04




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.Full story

Crazy petanque game soon available




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...Full story

Youtube joins petanque.org

We have integrated petanque.org with yet another newcomer to the web, this time it is youtube. So please give us your ideas!Full story

Lyon library - story on Boule lyonnaise

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!Full story

Petanque.org integrates with flickr

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 changesFull story

Petanque.org is 10 years old!




This month we celebrated a big number - 10 yearsFull story

Illegal Petanque Exposed




Jimmy Westfield send us his observations:
As a newcomer to the game of petanque from the Santa Barbara area of California, I was advised to become familiar with the rules of the game in order to avoid being cheated by some of the sharks who I’m told take advantage of beginners by imposing questionable interpretations in situations that most always favor their gambit.
Full story

A Petanque calendar for 2008

In collaboration with Hot Club Petanque we bring you the essential Xmas-gift this year: A petanque calendarFull story

Hot club petanqe and Le mondial la marseillaise a petanque 2007




by JC Nowers

This year Hot Club Petanque from London, England played its first international competition at the Mondial la Marseillaise a Petanque in Marseille, France. It was ‘boule’ paradise and I would encourage any bouliste to compete in it at least once.
I picked up on the idea of attending after reading a report featured on Petanque.org last year (I forget who). The ‘all comers’ access and the scale of the event, 12000 players/ 4000 teams on average per year, was a phenomena not to be missed.Full story

Big balls of steel and a tiny wooden one

Journal of a pétanqueteacher in the French Provence. This is an upcoming book, and we are proud to say that we have the first chapter online here at petanque.org for your pleasureFull story

Peterhof Maier cup - play a petanque tournament in Russia!




14 – 15 of July 2007 5 th Petanque International Tournament will take place in Peterhof. This tournament will be the most exciting and thrilling event Russian Petanque Federation is organizing during the year. So why don't you join them? Russia and boules go together almost like pastis and boules!Full story

New link policy

We have started a small projects to clean up our petanque-website directory hotboule. And as a part of this effort we have a very fair demand for all sites that we link: Link to us.Full story

Petanque blog feeds updated

Blogger. com made some changes to their system, and this changed all the urls for the feeds. As a result of this we have not been able to get updated blog-content here. Full story

Petanque in the Ukraine




In Ukraine there started to play petanque in 2003. That year in Zakarpattya - the most western region of Ukraine - the First Transcarpathian Petanque Club, which is the only official club of Ukraine until now, was officially registered. A report by Olexandr Popovych of the UkraineFull story

43'rd petanque world championship




The 43rd WC will be held in Thailand!
Full story

More than 1400 petanque postcards online!




Our very own postcard collector Jac Verheul has broken yet another limit. 1400 petanque postcards are now online here at petanque.org!Full story

“Shall we have a game” – the Sociable petanque Sinner

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.Full story

The Marbles Players

These are the players who will only play rolling shots on the smoothest, flattest part of the terrain. If there’s a stone, they want to remove it, if there’s more than 1 stone, they want to rake the terrain flat. Why?
Full story

Two sins on Terrain

Finally a double installment of Ray Ager's "Seven deadly sins of Petanque".
Sins 4 & 5 are all about where to play.Full story

Not Reading the petanque Terrain

Seven deadly sins - sin 3:
The sinner: plays without checking the terrain, complains about stones and “bad bounces” and hits blocking boules.

The winner: walks to the jack, examining the terrain, checking for slopes and dips, hard or stony areas, chooses the correct landing spot, takes note of any blocking boules, then wins the point. Winners get far less “bad bounces” than those who don’t check the terrain.Full story

Not Checking the Head – Not Thinking Tactically

Seven deadly sins - sin 2:
This is often related to aspects already touched upon, usually players playing boules in quick succession, without checking the head, which can mean playing out of turn, without discussing with your team how to play and invariably not thinking tactically – how can you if you don’t know the position of the game, who’s holding, who’s got 2nd & 3rd, etc.Full story

How far should you throw the jack?

The Seven Deadly Sins – Are YOU Guilty?

A series in seven parts by Ray Ager
Sinner or Winner? Here’s a test question to see which you are:
Part one:
How far should you throw the jack?
Full story

A small petanque video




A short and pretty amusing video on petanque and the consumation of pastis..Full story

Pool system

Another system has been added to the downloads-section, this time it is a pool system for 6 to 32 teamsFull story

Swiss tournament system Score sheets

We have added the "Swiss tournament system Score sheets" to the download section.Full story

New forum dedicated to petanque in the USA

As we have readers from all over the world, and quite a few of them are only interested in petanque, and not local issues in the USA or any other place we have set up a new forum for petanque in the USA aptly named American Petanque Soapbox.Full story

Do you have a petanque-blog?

We are building a blog-based service here at petanque.org and we need to hear from all of you that have petanque-related blogs.Full story

Forum

There has been a lot of traffic in the forum lately, and tempers have been high. Luckily some of the more agressive posters have asked us to remove their postings to avoid more controversy on the FPUSA-discussion.Full story

Boulemuseum Hohenrode



The first petanque-museum in Germany has opened in the small town of Hohenrode, close to the famous town of Hameln.Full story

When in France..




As the saying goes: When in Rome , do as the Romans. So when Tim came for a visit from South Africa there was only one thing he could do.Full story

Postcards galore




If you spend 10 seconds on each of our postcards it will take you close to 4 hours to look at them all! Or do one every day, and finish in about 3.5 years! We have reached 1300 postcards online.Full story

First Australian petanque-book




Australia has a population of 20 million of which there are literally tens of thousands of social boules players with a set of boules in their shed ready to play at the next BBQ or visit to the beach.

‘Pétanque Australia’ is the peak administrative body of pétanque in Australia representing 1,200 registered pétanque players in 47 individual clubs.Full story

The First Petanque America International Open




The First Petanque America International Open was no doubt a success.
Except for a small rainstorm at the end that messed up the planned prize award ceremony, we had two days of wonderful weather and an amazing variety of teams, 72 in total - from 15 US States and 6 countries.Full story

New forum rules

So far we have not had any rules for the forum. But now we have one. It is very simple, and it is the relatively unknown Norwegian "Kardemomme law"Full story

Dave Barry is coming to Florida - are you?

Dave Barry - one of the funniest people in the USA - is headed for the Miami Open petanque tournament. If you have the weekend off, it's time to join him!Full story

Cockle bay petanque club's 10th anniversary




On Sunday 9th October 2005 the Cockle Bay Petanque Club celebrated their 10th anniversary with a tournament held at the Cockle Bay Terrain, 51 players members & ex members from all over Auckland took part, it was the largest group of Petanque players to play at Cockle Bay for some time, and although the weather was not the best everyone had a great time.Full story

World Championships 2005




Quintais' Revenge!! Philippe coaches his old team to victory!
Philippe Quintais retired from International Competition after being defeated last year by the new French team of Rocher, Leboursicaud, Loy and Hureau but he returned as coach of the "second string" France team comprising his old team mates Henri Lacroix and Philippe Suchaud now with Julien Lamour and Simon Cortes to earn a well deserved victory. Full story

An interview with Philippe from Petanque America

We have had a chat with the man behind Petanqueamerica, Philippe Boets. He is in fact a Belgian that lives in France!Full story

Parlons Pétanque – Let’s Talk Petanque!

If you ever play in France, you’ll soon learn that petanque has its own ‘language’, a few words all of its own and lots of expressions about the game.Full story

Guinness world record for the longest petanque marathon set!




Newcastle Australia Petanque Club has just recieved official confirmation that they have been successful in setting a new guinness world record for the longest petanque marathon. The record is 27hours 30minutes by members of Newcastle Petanque Club at the kotara McDonald's restaurant, New South Wales, Australia on 24-25 January 2004.Full story

Content for Coaching section wanted

Due to popular demand we have decided to make a new section here at petanque.org. And it is to be about coaching. If you have any ideas, or know-how, please contribute.Full story

1000 postcards online!!!




When we started our postcard-collection here at petanque.org we were very pleased to have more than 100 cards online. But that was a long time ago, now we have passed the magic number: 1000!Full story

OTELLO PASSED AWAY

The famous French champion Otello passed away on Wednesday 9 February in his residence Les Taillades near Cavaillon in the French department Vaucluse. The real name of Otello was Robert Trovatelli, but he became famous by his nickname Otello, from Shakespeare indeed.Full story

CD with Marco Foyot

Marco Foyot is often considered as the best player in the world. Now we have a chance to find out how he is at singing, as he has participated on a new petanque CD. An album that will soon be a classic in every boulodrome!Full story

Euro-Cup Rastatt

Something special and a wonderful x-mas present for the boule players in mid europe was to visit the final of the "championsleague", the "EUROCUP" this week-end in Rastatt, Germany (next to Strasbourg).Full story

More video- the german championship for triplets

The german championship triplets 2003 is here - in georgeous video.Full story

Postcard ratings cleaned up - vote now!

Due to a small malfunction we have had all search engines in the world vote for the postcards. In fact 80% of the votes came from google, yahoo, msn and the likes. But this is now cleaned up. Full story

More videos available.

by Jürgen Beling:
I filmed, cut and burned two videos from the finals of the European PetanqueYouth championship in Luxembourg, September 2004. One (Cup of the nations, Luxembourg-Belgique) is abbreviated for half an hour and on SVCD.Full story

World championship results




We Have New Champions! Last years losing finalists go one better to win their 1st title. Rocher, Leboursicaud, Loy and Hureau with a record of P12, W12 and an average of only 3.3 points conceded were outstanding.Full story

More than 800 petanque postcards online




We have passed yet another big number with our postcards collection, this time it is 800. Currently we have 810 postcards online for your enjoyment!Full story

Avignon Celebrity Tournament




Every year, the City of Avignon organizes a Celebrity Tournament, along the Rhône river.
The 16th edition took place on July 10, 2004.
Lots of famous people from show and other business get together for a full day of pétanque, joined by some of the local champions. Full story

Le Gang de Petanque

A few years ago on a previous visit to Marseille, I found a copy of a book Les fadas de le pétanque (“Crazy about petanque”) which tells the purportedly true story of a gang of con artists who swindled players out of millions of ancient francs, playing fixed games for money. The story is also told in volume 2 of Otello’s classic book Les Histoires Humoristiques de la Pétanque.
Full story

A visit at La Boule Bleue




Hard labour! The boules are going one for one in the ovenfire.
Photo: Henk Reesink. Source: magazine petanQue, The Netherlands.

On an industrial zone on the outskirts of Marseille is La Boule Bleue, Marseille’s ‘true’ boules manufacturer. La Boule Bleue remains a family run artisanal business, where boules are still « hand crafted » rather than made on an automated production line. Every 2 to 3 years, manufacturers usually introduce a new boule to their range. Many players just think, “a boule is just a boule” but I’ve always been curious to know how manufacturers set out to improve the performance of their boules.Full story

La Marseillaise




By Ray Ager
I went for the second time to La Marseillaise, France’s biggest petanque tournament with nearly 12,500 players this year. I actually took a last minute decision and went alone, hoping to find two others to make up a team. Having read in Pétanque Magazine that nobody would be turned away this year, I had a slight shock to read in Friday’s edition of the newspaper, La Marseillaise, that entries would close at midday – it was 1pm!Full story

Exam in boules

A big scoop in France: an optional test of pétanque as part of an entrance examination has just been organized in Marseille. Twelve candidates, the half being girls, coming from the whole academy of Aix-Marseille, were tested on Tuesday during three hours on this sport, which is the third of the most practised disciplines in the French department Bouches-du-Rhône behind football and tennis, with 22.000 licensed players.Full story

The First Tournament in St. Petersburg




On the weekend of 10 – 11 of July Russian northern capital will celebrate its anniversary. This year the holidays will pass at the place of the royal residence (Peterhof). On these dates the First International Petanque Tournament in St.Peterburg will take place. This will be the Maier cup tournament.
Full story

More downloads

Jac Verheul - the man with more than 700 petanque postcards in his private collection has scanned some of the cards in a very good quality. This means they may be used as background images on your computer! Full story

Petanque screensaver

We have a screensaver for download here, thanks to a friendly contribution. The screensaver is available for both Mac Os 8/9 ,Mac OS X , and Microsoft Windows! The content is more than 200 of the postcards in our collection , all packed into a screensaver application.

Philippe Quintais online




Philippe Quintais , by many hailed as the best petanque-player in the world , is now online with his very own homepage. The site is maintained by Lionel Zanet, the man behind boulistenaute.comFull story

New section: Video

Due to the fact that petanque is a rapidly growing sport and many new players have never seen experienced players play the game we have made a few short videos of pointing and shooting techniques available online. Among the videos we have a series of pointing , both sitting and standing, a couple of shots, and a perfect carreau.Full story

Do you need a petanque.org domain for your website?

We have set up our technical solution in such a way that we can offer all petanque-sites a petanque.org prefix domain for free, such as california.petanque.org.Full story

Dutch Petanque-CD released

On Monday 15th December for the first time a new CD with thirteen (13!) songs on the game of boules was presented in the Netherlands. In France there are several songs on petanque, but there is not a commercial CD that is completely dedicated to the game of petanque. And we offer one of the songs online here at petanque.org, for all of you to enjoy!Full story

The 1-st International Petanque Tournament in Russia




The first International Petanque Tournament in Russia has finished. It was undoubtedly the most important and thrilling event in the Russian Petanque life so far.Full story

European Championship for Women




The final of the Championship was won by the Spanish team, that beat the French team (13-10). The German women won the bronze medal.Full story

Buy he worlds first Petanque CD




If you own everything - why not buy a dutch cd about petanque?Full story

The first Petanque tournament in Moscow

Finally an exotic tournament for those of you that have played all over France: The tournament will take place on 13 – 14 of December in Luzhniki Sport Complex,Moscow, Russia.Full story

More old pictures added




Our collection of old pictures that accompany the old rules section has been expanded.Full story

Petanque postcard collection grows




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Forum subscription updated

The forum subscription system is once again up and running. If you would like to get all new forum postings in your e-mail - now you have the chance.Full story

North Sea petanque 2003




The Swedish team has won the 24th International North Sea Petanque Tournament (INSPT), which was organized in Breda in The Netherlands from 26 until 28 June. The Swedish players won 44 games, just one more than the Belgian team (43). Full story

New petanque book by Marco Foyot

"Manuel pratique de la pétanque" is a new book by the man that most people seem to agree is the best petanque-player in the world, Marco Foyot.
Full story

Petanque in the streets of Brooklyn




On the 13th of july the streets of Brooklyn will once again be turned into a dozen petanque-courts! Full story

Petanque in Tula, Russia




On the 8-th of June The first Petanque games in the history of Tula were held before the light athletics international competitions. Both professional sportsmen and just numerous enthusiasts gathered to take part. To make it possible for everybody to play Russian Federation of Petanque organized the 3 hours master class, devoted to the technique of tire and point. Full story

Forum gets updated - do not panic

After 3 years we have finally re-made our forum here at petanque.org. This might give some strange results in the coming week as the bugs are removed from the new script.Full story

Update on the Russian Boulodrome

The reconstruction in the Luzniki sport complex is on its final step. The last decorating works are held there now. The coverage of the first bouledrome in Russia turned out to be the outstanding task, but It`was already highly valued by the French educators during the training of 01 . 04 of May.Full story

Celtic Challenge 2003

The annual Celtic Challenge, now in its twelve year, was played in Bangor County Down over the May bank holiday weekend. In very wet conditions the teams from Wales, Scotland and Ireland competed during the Saturday and Sunday.
Full story

First Professional Training in Russia

The may holidays turned out to be quite hard-working days for Russian sportsmen. The training rhythm was given by the best specialists from France: Claude Azema (General Secretary of International Federation of Petanque and Jeu Provancal) and Claude Raluy (President of International Educaqtional Petanque Center), that seemed thrilling and terrible at the same time to most of the players.Full story

60 hours of petanque




Dave, Kurt, Robby & Gert have played non-stop petanque for 60 hours!
Full story

Postcards revisited: 552 cards on line

We have spent a few days here at petanque.org making sure that all the postcards have the correct text, removing doubles and generally cleaning up a bit. The man behind the collection, Jac Verheul , has struck again, and we have now passed 550 cards.Full story

Boules to Niger!




by Jean-Pierre Jardinet
On a trip to Niger in march 2003 I met the president of the Niger Petanque federationin Niamey , Mr Alhassane Abdoulaye. This country has idea lconditions for practising petanque: always sunny, a lot of sandy and story ground. The players are numerous and hold a high level, and they are all very friendly. The only downside is that due to lack of sponsors it is difficult to participate in international championships for most players.
Full story

Marco Foyot un-suspended!

After more than 2 months of suspension marco Foyot, arguably one of the best petanque-players ever , has been given back his licensce from the F.F.P.J.P. It was taken from him after he said that the said that F.F.P.J.P. was not a very democratic or fair organisation, and apparently they have improved.
So now al lMarco has to do is play petanque, and not say much - and he'll be able to play for a long time...Full story

Le Bouliste Enchaîné

We have a brand new french newspaper online here for you – Le Bouliste Enchaîné.

Le Canard Enchaîné is a weekly satirical newspaper published every Wednesday and is very famous in France for bringing up political scams, scandals and discourse on a very wide range of topics in a very satirical way and by using puns (play on words). Politicians are mostly targeted. It’s a very respected newspaper. It is the oldest newspaper in France as it was founded in 1917 to fight military censorship and government brainwashing and propaganda. Finally a version for the petanque-world has emerged, and you can download it. And for those of you that do not read French very well we have a short Eglish explanation.
Full story

Senior games in Gent, Begium

S-Sport, a sporting federation recognized and subsidized by BLOSO (Belgian Gouvernement), will organize in 2003 the first Senior Games for elderly in Europe.
This event will take place in Ghent – Belgium from Tuesday 22nd until Sunday 27th April 2003.

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The Krasnodar Region's first petanque tournament

The First Petanque Tournament of Krasnodar Region was organized by the Russian Petanque Federation and “Buddy” Petanque club from the 12/02/03 till 14/02/03. The tournament was held within the borders of an annual exhibition «Tourism and leisure. Anapa -2003 ».
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A Russian Bouleodrome in the making

In Russia this winter may seem the coldest and the longest in the life for those who became the Petanque lover last year summer. The snow and freezing cold, that are appreciated by skiers and fans of the other winter kinds of sport, do not suit at all to this game that came from the south of FranceFull story

Marco Foyot ,world famous petanque champion, has been suspended

Marco Foyot, the winner of La Marseillaise last year, has been suspended immediately by the FFPJP, the French petanque federation, for a
period of three years and has got also a fine of 105 euro. Full story

We need more contributions

As you might have noticed, the updates have been slow at best here lately. Many does not realize it, but petanque.org is completey driven by it's users. All content , stories, postcards etc. have been contributed by you, the readers. And now wee need more.Full story

534 postcards online

We have updated our rather exensive collection of postcards , and we have finally gotten closer to 550 than 500! The postcards cover all sorts of pictures from the beaty of art to the more obscure french jokes, and a large number of stills from europe from the last 100 yearsFull story

World Championships 2002

A report from David baxter of the BPA:
Held in Grenoble, France 2-6 October 2002
38th Championnat du Monde

For the record, France are world champions again, Morocco 2nd, Thailand 3rd and Madagascar 4th.Full story

World Championship result

Final result:
The final France-Morocco 15-2

From the semi-finals:
France B (Quintais-Lacroix-Suchaud) beat Thailand narrowly 13-12. Thailand played extremely well. The last round, starting at 12-12 was awesomeFull story

End of news at petanque.org

We have tried to have updated petanque-news here since 1997, but we have decided that not only is it too much work to make a good news-site for all players in all the world, but it is not very interesting for most players either. The interest is generally about local events, and this kind of information is best managed by the local club or association. So with the exception of world-championships. etc. we will no more publish news here at petanque.orgFull story

13.com are Scottish Triple Champions 2002

13.com ( Mike Dow, Stuart McCombie, Dave Pattison ) all from the Birds and Bees Petanque club in Stirling have just won the Scottish Triples
competition held at Inverleith in EdinburghFull story

International "Rüttchen-Toernooi 2002" L'Ammerzo very successful

Ammerzoden, The Netherlands - For the 4th time in its existence Jeu de Boules-union L'Ammerzo from Ammerzoden, The Netherlands has organized an international petanque tournament. Due to the financial contribution by Rüttchen Den Bosch BV, Formido Bouwmarkten Zaltbommel and Transportbedrijf De Hart from Ammerzoden there where great prizes to be won by the players.Full story

Outcome of La Marseillaise

Marco Foyot won his 6th Marseillaise title after defeating the Napolitano team ( 13-0 ) in the semi-finals, and the Fernadez team ( 13-0 again ) in the finals.Full story

Local petanque.org domain-names

We have modified our technical straegy a bit, and as a result of this we can now offer prefix-domains, such as british.petanque.org, for interested parties.Full story

Books updated and translated to French!

For quite some time we have worked on a french version of the books database, as a first step on the way to make a bilingual version of petanque.org.Full story

Vote for the best postcard

Our most popular section - the postcards - has been upgraded with a rating system that enables all users to rate all the postcards.Full story

Report from Biarritz

After a thoroughly enjoyable club visit to St Leger du Bourg Denis, I had an equally enjoyable extra week playing in Biarritz. Biarritz is a medium size resort with 3 clubs. I played every day at Parc Mazon, a small club in a small park, 10 minutes walk from my hotel in the Old Port.
I was made very welcome by the group of about 12-15 regulars who played every day, with the usual proviso, "If you're any good you can stay, otherwise we'll change the teams." Happily they let me stay and as a gesture of goodwill, I joined the club for the season, 60F, although they very kindly said, "All that's really necessary is that you come back next year." - by Ray AgerFull story

Petanque in 5 minutes

If you want to play petanque, and do not want to read rules, just play - we have the shortest explanation possible here.Full story

Greek Petanque Festival

Ray Ager has sendt us a report from his trip to Greece, where he ended up playing petanque. And when the pope turned up, Ray had to bite the dust!Full story

Disaster has stuck petanque.org

As our old ISP, ADDR.COM has deleted most of our site, and are unavailable, we are moving. So if things do not work - be patient. Our mail is out, and most of our back-end scripts are not functioning.Full story

Petanque in the philately - a new collection at petanque.org

Thanks to Alex.A.M.de Groot we have a new section - philately.
An extensive collection of images of stamps, postcards, envelopes etc. all related to petanque.Full story

HOW TO PLAY BETTER !

Tips and Tricks - Part 1 Full story

Venue for Celtic Challenge decided

The 13th annual petanque challenge between Scotland, Ireland,wales will take place in Forthbank Stirling.Full story

Club Affiliation

New per capita fee for Scottish Members.Full story

New section for beginners

As a lot of people hopefully get a set of boules for christmas, or just want to get started playing we have a brand new section to help them out: Beginners. And the whole section has been contributed by Vernon Walker -our new editor.Full story

Marco Foyot coaching course report

Ray Ager, of the Brighton & Hove club and A Lot of Gaul, went on the first Marco Foyot coaching course at the end of November. Here is his report:Full story

More than 500 postcards

We have blasted through a barrier here - our online postcard-collection has passed 500 cards, thanks to Jac Verheul! All are available as thunbnails and in large format.Full story

Petanque in the philately

The philatelic collection "Jeu de boules and similar ballgames" is avalable for all of us on the net. It might not have occured to you, but there are stamps - a lot of them, with petanque as the main theme.Full story

New Secretary for the Scottish Petanque Association

Gavin Scott is our new secretary.Full story

World Junior Championship

Belgium beat Sweden this afternoon in Lons-le-Saunier and became the new Junior World Champion.Full story

Forum-mail is back - and it might work as well

Due to the problems with our server we had a couple of weeks ago the forum-email-subsriptionhas not worked at all. But now...Full story

More Postcards - and thumbnails are available

Jac Verheul, the dutch postcard-collector has done it again. 484 postcards are on-line. To celebrate this we have modified the section a bit, thumbnails have been added of all 484 cards.Full story

World Championship 2001 report

As the audience returns from Monaco, the opinions keep pouring in. Here is another one, well worth a look.Full story

Interview with GB World Championship team

An interview with Ashley and Lee Jamieson. Ashley played in this year's GB World Championship team. His father Lee, who has also played for GB, was the team Coach. Full story

World championship results

The results are in from Monaco, the home of the 37th world championship in petanque. It should not come as a shock that France did rather well..Full story

Get spammed by the petanque.org forum!

Way back in may Ray Ager requested that we should make it possible to get new forum postings as an e-mail. And now it is here - your chance to get a lot of petanque-mail in your inbox. Full story

Contribute to the FAQ

We have set up a forum so that you all may take part in making the perfect balanced FAQ for petanque. All we need now is for something to happen. So please - take part! And : Give us some answers!Full story

More postcards in the collection

Thanks to our never-relaxing Jac verheul we have reached the insane number of 475 postcards in our collection. Full story

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Dunedin temporary petanque show

As part of the citys promotions to have the fench vs all blacksrugby test the council invited our petanque club to set up a piste in the town centre.

Pictures from Thailand

Mr. Setsaas has sendt us some petanque-pictures from Thailand.

Petanque America Open - Amelia Island - 14 & 15 November 2009

After the success of 2003 and 2005, we are getting ready for 2009! Fernandina Beach is a small, very friendly town on beautiful Amelia Island on the Atlantic. From the Amelia river on the west side to the beaches on the east side is just 2 miles. With many cafés and restaurants for all budgets.

Petanque in mexico

Pierre de Olivia has sendt us a snapshop from Yucatan, Mexico

SWINE FLU WARNING!!

We want to avoid all rumors at once. Even if the small ball is called "the pig", "le cochonette" - IT IS NOT A SURCE FOR SWINE FLU! So just keep playing! Just don't play as pigs, it might ruin the game...

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