Finally a double installment of Ray Ager's "Seven deadly sins of Petanque".
Sins 4 & 5 are all about where to play.
4. Playing Across Another Game
You have a massive empty terrain with 2 games taking place. Why, oh why, does 1 team always play across the other team’s game?
You won’t get to play on “the great terrain in the sky” if you keep committing this sin!
5. Not Playing “Open” Terrain
Some of these sins are related – and some players are multiple sinners!
You have a large, open terrain but you only play up and down the same area - why?
You have a large, open area but the terrain is strung into narrow 3m wide terrains – why?
The cardinal sin is at competitions, which, as we know, are often stringed off to accommodate the number of teams. What is very sad is when the final is still played on a narrow marked out terrain when everybody else has finished and the rest of the terrain is unused.
In France, the norm is to create a Carré d’Honneur – a showcase terrain with lots of spectators for the final, usually with a minimum size of 16 x 16m
Although the rules state that terrains can be 12 x 4m, they also state that this is a minimum requirement, so if you’ve got a large terrain but not many teams, why not make best use of the available space?
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
Lars Refn was one of the founders of the Copenhagen Petanque Club in Denmark. He is also an illustrator, and has produces a vast number of t-shirts with petanque as the theme over the years.
A positive newsflash fron Chiltern - the young ones have started playing petanque!
We often get questions about when you are to old to play petanque. Some say 90, some 100 and some 120..
A report from Tim Truluck in Charente, France.
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