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| Walk_About_Magazine Magazine covering various styles and purposes for walking, fitness, training, weight loss, nutrition. Highlights from current and past issues. |
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Short
introduction to pétanque (boule).
The
word pétanque is a corruption of the
French term, "pieds tanques", meaning
(more or less) "feet tied together".
It refers to the position from which the boule
is thrown and differentiates it from other similar games.
To be able to play
a game of Pétanque you need, firstly, to be nice enough
to have at least one friend. Games can be played between two
people, each using three boules. The boules are
metal balls obtainable at a number of shops selling
sporting goods. One can also play in teams of two or
three people. (Teams of two also play with three
boules per person, while teams of three
play with two boules each.) You will also need a
small wooden ball (called a cochonnette,
a pig, a piggy, a coche, a woody etc), and any open space
of at least 3m by 12m. In many parts of
the world it is also seen as a prerequisite to have at
least one bottle of wine at hand before a game can
commence.
A coin is tossed to
see which team starts the game. A member of the starting
team draws a circle of between 35 an 50 cm in diameter.
Standing with both feet in this circle,
a member of this team, lets call them team A, then throws
the cochonnette a distance of between 6 and 10 meters.
Any member of team A then throws their first
boule to end up as close to the cochonnette as
possible. (Boules are asually thrown underhand with
the palm of the hand showing downward) Members of
team B then attempt to get one of their boules closer to
the cochonnette. Once they manage this, team A
then attempt to get even closer. A team continues
to throw, untill they are closer or run out of boules.
If a team runs out of boules without getting closer to
the cochonnette and the team that is closest still has
boules left, they throw these to get as many boules as
close to the cochenete as possible. An end
is completed once both teams have thrown all their boules.
The team that is lying closest gets as many
points as they have boules closer to the
cochonnette than the opposing team's closest
boule. If the cochonnette moves during an end, the new
position of the cochonnette is valid.
The scoring team
now has the privelage of throwing the cochonnette. If the
game is being played in a restricted area, the next end
will be played back down the terrain. (In the
opposite direction of the previous end.) If it is being
played on a large open area, the scoring team draws a
circle around the position of the cochonnette and choses
any direction in wich the cochonnette can be thrown 6 -
10 m and does this. The above process is repeated until
one of the teams gets 13 points and wins!
More detailed rules adapted to South African
Conditions are available here.
A
full set of the international rules are available on 
