French Game Of Petanque (Boules)
This video is a beginner's guide with some tips on how to play the popular french game of petanque,(boules) which originated in 1907 and is played by about 17 million people within France and is also popular in Spain. It was filmed with a Sony HDR CX550VE camcorder and my added commentary was added in english.
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The Place to Play
Petanque is also known as Boules and is played outdoors on any reasonably firm surface: your yard, the park, a field, a gravel parking lot, cinder running track, etc.
Hard surfaces like concrete or asphalt or very soft like a fine sand beach or long grass are not recommended. The ideal surface is hard packed earth with course sand or pea gravel approximately 1/8 - ¼ deep covering the surface.
Find a place that is open and fairly flat. If there are a few bumps and hollows that's fine and can even add more challenge to the game.Choose Teams
Divide up into two teams. You can play Singles with one player on each side, Doubles with two players on each side, or Triples with three players on each side.
For leisure play a good way to choose teams is for one person to take a boule from each player and throw them out all at the same time.
The owners of the boules that lie closest to the thrower make up the first team.
Select Boules
Both teams select their boules. Each team's boules should have Groove Patterns that distinguish them from the other side's boules: that way, they will be easy to identify when counting up points.
When playing Singles or Doubles, each player uses three boules and for Triples each player uses two.
Decide Who Goes FirstToss a coin to see which side goes first.
Toss the Jack
The team that wins the coin toss chooses the starting location and then selects one of their players to throw out the jack.
The starting location is indicated by a circle that is 14 to 20 inches in diameter and at least three feet from any obstacles.
The circle can be drawn with chalk, etched in the dirt with a stick, or made from a piece of rope whatever works.
Once the circle is drawn, the player then stands with both feet inside the circle and throws the jack.
The jack can be thrown in any direction but must land within 20 to 30 feet of the starting circle and three feet from any obstacle.
Throw the Boules
All boules must be thrown from within the starting circle and with both feet on the ground. The player attempts to throw the boule so that it lands as close to the jack as possible it is okay to hit the jack.
The player must remain inside the circle until the boule has landed. A player from the opposing team then steps into the circle and attempts to land his boule closer to the jack even if it means knocking his opponents out of the way.
The boule closest to the jack leads or is said to be holding the point. The other team must continue throwing boules until they take the lead or run out of boules.
There is no order that team members must follow when throwing their boules however, they must only throw their own boules,
and they must go one at a time from within the starting circle. If they take the lead, the other team then tries to recover by landing a lead boule.
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Pétanque (French pronunciation: ?[pet?~k]; Occitan: petanca [pe'ta?k?]) is a form of boules where the goal is to toss or roll hollow steel balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet (literally piglet) or jack,[1] while standing inside a circle with both feet on the ground.
The game is normally played on hard dirt or gravel. It can be played in public areas in parks, or in dedicated facilities called boulodromes. Similar games are bocce, bowls and (adapted to ice) curling.
The current form of the game originated in 1907 or 1910 in La Ciotat, in Provence, France. The French name pétanque (borrowed into English, with or without the acute accent)
comes from petanca in the Provençal dialect of the Occitan language, deriving from the expression pès tancats ['p?s ta?'kats], meaning 'feet fixed' or 'feet planted' (on the ground).
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